At OpenWorld 2011 in San Francisco, Oracle continued the stream of announcements and focused on the cloud, launching its public cloud and making Oracle applications available in the cloud.

The OpenStack Conference 2011 convened in Boston this week, drawing companies and individuals who are working to establish industry standards for open source cloud software. Today, the community will move forward organizationally as Lew Moorman...

Microsoft will invest an additional $150 million to expand its new data center in southern Virginia, continuing a series of expansion announcements that hint at a dramatic scaling up of Microsoft's cloud computing capacity. Microsoft will build a...

Many are expecting the upcoming Amazon Kindle Tablet to become a serious contender to the Apple iPad. Why? Mainly because of prcing and Amazon‘s established relationships with tens of millions of customers.

Performance is an increasingly important criteria in the fast-growing market for cloud computing, as reflected in Joyent's introduction today of a new public cloud platform.

At this past VMworld 2011 Sean Deuby, Jeff James and I met with Edwin Yuen, Director Cloud and Virtualization Strategy for Microsoft. One of the things that became clear from Edwin as well as from the keynotes VMware’s Paul Martiz and Steven...

Apprenda, a provider of platform-as-a-servivce stack for .NET, recently closed a $10 million Series B funding round led by Ignition Partners. We talked with Apprenda CEO Sinclair Schuller about why enterprises should consider the private PaaS...

On Tuesday Amazon Web Services rolled out a new GovCloud (US) region to provide customized cloud computing services for U.S. Government agencies and contractors with data that is subject to regulatory and compliance requirements.