It's safe to say that cloud computing is definitely amongst the most useful and most profitable technologies out there, depending on each side's point of view and even thought there are plenty of benefits that businesses and users alike can reap from it, it seems that this technology still bears some risks people need to fully address before considering it. By being aware of these factors and more, business ...

Google has introduced a new set of services related to computing and data storage that will also support its search engine and other applications. During a developer session on the Google Cloud Platform, company’s senior vice president of technical infrastructure Urs Hölzle, announced the expansion of Google's App Engine service and Google’s Cloud Datastore, which received great appreciation from the audien ...

With the creation of a new development center for cloud technologies, Amazon, one of the world’s major online powerhouses is accelerating its cloud presence in European markets. Amazon,  announced that for its cloud based Amazon Web Services (AWS) it is likely to hire 70 new software engineers and application developers who shall be working in its new cloud development center in Berlin and Dresden. This ini ...

Adobe, a universally known name to artists, photographers, website designers, gamers, advertising professionals, and other digital media content producers, has announced the suspension of its Creative Suite packaged desktop applications ― a shock for Adobe customers worldwide. However, Adobe Creative Cloud ― a substitute of its Creative Suite,  would give the same functionality most people desire. In Los An ...

Stackdriver has come up with a cloud monitoring service for public cloud users to check their cloud performance and receive real-time alerts in case of any issues. A recently conducted study has revealed that an increasing number of cloud users are not satisfied with the cloud monitoring tools coupled with their cloud infrastructure. However, a new monitoring solution is now offered by Boston based Stackdri ...

It’s no secret that NoSQL databases have been growing in popularity in recent years. The development community has latched onto NoSQL as one of the most effective ways to streamline key database and application development processes. Rackspace’s new acquisition of ObjectRockets shows that the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) giant is actively trying to step up to compete with the likes of Amazon S3 by aim ...

Competition between cloud vendors is getting intense day by day, visible across all cloud variants. Amazon and Google, major public cloud vendors are competing head-to-head and are launching improvements in their products and services to go beyond one’s competitors. Although the race is long and the competition is tough both for Google and Amazon, recently the companies have offered price reductions in thei ...

Amazon Cloud is all about going big on performance and less on price, atleast that's what we know till now. However, i always wondered if there could be more done to the way AWS is used to increase savings. Recently, CloudCheckr conducted an extensive research to check on how properly customers of AWS were able to use it. The results were extremely surprising, though not for CloudCheckr. We Would like to re ...

The Business Software Alliance (BSA) has published a list of cloud readiness top-ranked countries in its annual ‘Global Cloud Scorecard’ report. According to the report, Japan, Australia, U.S., Germany and Singapore are top 5 countries in descending order, while rising markets of South Africa, Indonesia, Brazil, Thailand and Vietnam appear at the bottom. BSA is an alliance of various software dealers rangin ...

The importance of cloud has increased over the years and a lot of workload is shifted to it to make the most out of the available business resources. Cloud is rising high and getting bigger day by day but a serious concern of customers’ is its authenticity. It’s like doubting your own dashboard about the services it provides. This trust deficit on the customer’s part may damage the increasing popularity of ...