14 posts and columns on cloud services

Weather Prediction for 2012: Cloudy, With a Chance of Serious Growth

in News on January 17 at 5:15 am PT

WIth every other bit of IT spending predicted to shrink this year, the market for cloud servers is going through a growth spurt.
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Hewlett-Packard Offers Box on Some Business PCs

in News on December 5, 2011 at 7:59 am PT

Would you care for some cloud with that new PC?
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Box.net CEO Aaron Levie Takes His Show to New York

in Enterprise on November 4, 2011 at 7:00 am PT

Fresh off of raising $81 million in capital, Box.net CEO Aaron Levie was in New York yesterday and came by for a quick chat about his company’s next big move.
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Five Questions for HP’s New CEO Meg Whitman and Chairman Ray Lane

in Enterprise on September 23, 2011 at 6:30 am PT

Hewlett-Packard’s new CEO Meg Whitman and Chairman Ray Lane talk about the road ahead for one of the world’s biggest technology companies.
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News Byte

San Francisco Adopts Microsoft's Cloud-Based Email

in News on May 18, 2011 at 2:45 pm PT

Microsoft has struck a deal with the city of San Francisco to provide Microsoft Exchange Online, its cloud-based email system, for the city’s workforce, beating out competing products from Google and IBM. It was the latest move in a steadily unfolding battle with Google to land government cloud contracts. In 2009, Google won a round by landing a Google Apps contract with the city of Los Angeles.

Amazon Details Last Week's Cloud Failure, and Apologizes

in Enterprise on April 29, 2011 at 5:45 am PT

Amazon explains in detail what happened to its cloud last week, and promises it will never happen again. And it apologizes to its customers. Shaken customers will have to ask themselves if that’s enough.

Amazon's Cloud Crashed Overnight, And Brought Several Other Companies Down Too

in Enterprise on April 21, 2011 at 5:17 am PT

One part of Amazon’s cloud came to a screeching halt overnight, and brought Foursquare, Quora, Hootsuite, Reddit and scores of other companies down with it.

Rackspace Turns Anso Labs Into a Cloud Services Business Unit

in Enterprise on March 8, 2011 at 4:15 pm PT

Want to build a private cloud? Like OpenStack? Rackspace has a new business unit aimed at helping you.

Zynga's FarmVille and CityVille Developer Spills the Beans on What Makes Games Great

in Commerce on March 1, 2011 at 10:21 am PT

Hundreds of game developers showed up at GDC on Monday for a session on the history of Zynga’s FarmVille and CityVille. And why not? The company makes three of the top four social games. Here’s some of the advice offered, and a few fun facts as well.

Google Apps' New Promise: No More Downtime

in Enterprise on January 14, 2011 at 9:20 am PT

Service will be as reliable as a telephone dial tone, Google promises. No interruptions, even for upgrades or maintenance.

The Case for the Fat Start-Up

in News, March 17, 2010 at 12:00 pm PT

Palm Disappoints

in News, December 17, 2009 at 1:26 pm PT

Android on Steroids

in News, May 11, 2009 at 10:51 am PT