Cloud Computing News & Articles

Just because you know something is going to happen -- particularly something bad -- it can still have a negative impact. A case in point is the loss of 27,000 jobs at HP out of its estimated 350,000 workforce.

The move to Office 365 -- and SharePoint online -- is getting more attractive every day. The functionality is there, the price is just about right, so why not? If you are considering a move to the cloud-based version of SharePoint, there are a few things you should consider in your migration planning.

The weather finally turned hot this week in Europe, and it looks like it could fray tempers a bit as Oracle, SAP and IBM once again set upon a collision course -- this time over data management around e-commerce.

Source code hosting site GitHub began in 2008 as a side project to provide an easy hosting option for developers. The site has since grown to more than 1.6 million users and over 2.8 million source code repositories. The popular site has finally released a Windows version of its client that works with everything from Windows XP to pre-release versions of Windows 8.

There is no doubt that tablets are super popular -- everyone from preschoolers to grandparents love their ease of use and portability. But when tablets first appeared in the marketplace, they were not expected to be used almost solely for entertainment.

If Salesforce Chatter isn’t chatty enough for you, then the announcement today that Salesforce will be making Chatter Messenger and Screensharing generally available next month should come as good news.

More enterprises have begun to see the cloud as a viable option for everything from physical servers to end user facing applications. This increased user demand is allowing companies such as data platform-as-a-service provider Cloudant to grow rapidly. The company announced that it is further expanding its data centers globally to improve reliability and performance.

Can an enterprise content management system promise to delight end-users and keep the company CEO out of jail at the same time?

As new HP CEO Meg Whitman recovers from her trip to China, where HP introduced 80 products at a two-day conference, rumors of up to 30,000 company layoffs are circulating. HP's commitment to the Chinese market seems clear, whereas its vision for the US remains cloudy, with a chance of unemployment.

If EMC’s CEO Joe Tucci aimed to put its partners' collective mind at rest over the fate of Documentum, then Jeremy Burton, the company’s CMO, was there to outline where EMC is going with the cloud and Big Data.

Usually it’s the Monday of any given vendor conference that the big news gets released. In the case of EMC, it was the partner conference yesterday in Las Vegas (Sunday) that set the tone for a conference that looks set to be full of interesting nuggets. Two big things came out of it yesterday, both of them issues where many people wanted to see what EMC would say.

Far be it from me to spread gossip and rumor BUT… well, yesterday when we took a look at the new upgrade to v2.1 of IBM’s SmartCloud, we came across a number of references to the fact that Google is building a c loud computing offering that is to compete with Amazon’s EC2 cloud.

These days Web publishing is less like making great music in a band, and more like managing an entire orchestra. With that thought in mind, Limelight Networks is introducing Limelight Orchestrate.

It took a while to figure it out from the press release, but IBM has upgraded its SmartCloud 2.1, which comes with a number of enhancements that is going to make working with Big Blue‘s cloud a lot easier, and to all appearances, a lot more productive.

eZ Systems released the newest version of its flagship software, eZ Publish, and the Etna version 4.7 features a cloud-based Saas solution on the Red Hat enterprise cloud stack.