Cloud management and implementation is continuously being improved, especially through major alliances. Latest in this context, is the Dell’s announcement of delivering Microsoft Azure to their customers via their Dell Cloud Partner Program. This proceeding would strengthen the alliance of both Dell and Microsoft in short as well as long run. Dell announced earlier this year that it will provide application ...

Australia and New Zealand ICT practice squad seem much active these days. Following a significant report State of Cloud Computing New Zealand 2013, which was published just a week ago, the research and consultancy firm has now induced new insights to the cloud markets of Australia. In the recent claims, Frost & Sullivan correlated the popularity of cloud computing systems with the goods of Infrastructur ...

The year 2013 is winding up as there are just a couple of weeks left in the queue. Based on the fundraising and investment trends from year till date, this article spotlights some of the highest performing cloud services. Cloud computing has now been duly admitted, as majority of the service providers have listed themselves in the stock markets. Starting from the tail end, here are top five performers, who’ ...

It has just been confirmed that Google is at last making its cloud infrastructure live. The service is named as Google Compute Engine (GCE) and has already been under consideration for over a year. The preview version of this infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) was already floating in the markets, since June 2012. However, the general availability was made active this morning. Google’s Cloud Platform Marketi ...

A much-escalated competition can be seen in the cloud services industry these days. Followed by the controversy of Edward Snowden and German SAP AG being welcomed at Chinese markets, US based cloud providers are sniffing around to sustain their impact. International Business Machines (IBM) also called as the Big Blue has taken a step further in this regard. The company is looking to offer its technology ser ...

In the race of fastest growing Cloud services and solutions, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been able to list itself among the market leaders. AWS introduced a number of new products and solutions in its Re: Invent Conference, earlier this month. This display of services portrayed how much dedicated Amazon is to its cloud management subsidiary. Over 9000 developers attended the conference, which is a matter ...

The IBM Corporation, world’s largest computer services provider is undergoing a flick of hard times. As depicted by the income statements of last quarter (Sep-2013), company has experienced the overall revenue, 5 per cent lower than the previous quarter. This might be a tormenting wave for IBM. There could be certain influencing factors for such a sales and financial outcome. Of course, that has not resulte ...

The recent Azure Cloud updates are Microsoft's effort to get back into the race of cloud computing services and they seem to be quite serious about beating their competitors with the new additions. The company is refusing to be brought down to the ground by the current dominators and is using every ounce of strength to get back up to challenge them. The updates were announced just recently and are designed ...

IT professionals who work with public or private cloud may need to refresh themselves as OpenStack recently released Havana. The new release is getting fast attention of service providers, businesses and institutions. Havana was announced on Thursday and it is the eighth major release from OpenStack and may work great for the OpenStack initiative. The open source cloud architecture of OpenStack has been adv ...

Open source cloud technology called OpenStack has been plugged into Oracle. The new public cloud service will be released in the market soon, packed with advanced technology and improvements. The OpenStack addition was announced at Oracle OpenWorld conference on Tuesday. OpenStack has recently received a lot of code contributions from various companies including Red Hat, NASA, HP and Rackspace. It is one of ...