Silicon Valley CEO Shakeup

Jul 17, 2012 | VMware and Yahoo are both under new leadership. EMC Corp's Pat Gelsinger is replacing Paul Maritz as the CEO of VMware and longtime Google hotshot Marissa Mayer takes the top office at Yahoo.
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Cloud Helps Address Capacity Woes

Jul 12, 2012 | The Uptime Institute has released its second annual datacenter survey. The data confirmed a number of long held observations regarding cloud computing, but also uncovered a few surprising results.
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Analyst Firms Bullish on Cloud Spending

Jul 10, 2012 | Research firms are predicting strong growth for the cloud computing markets.
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Sony Acquires Cloud Gaming Service

Jul 06, 2012 | Gaming giant Sony Computer Entertainment has purchased Gaikai for $380 million.
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HPC Powers Unite!

Jul 03, 2012 | The Imperial College London and the University of Cambridge have joined forces to offer HPC-as-a-Service to the UK business community.
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Amazon Bit the Dust... Again

Jul 02, 2012 | Amazon suffers a double whammy during the month of June. Netflix, Pinterest, Instagram and others were affected by the disruptions.
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Survey Tracks the State of Cloud Storage

Jun 29, 2012 | A survey of CloudExpo attendees generates insight into the future of cloud storage services.
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The Uber-Cloud Experiment Is Seeking Participants

Jun 29, 2012 | An HPC-as-a-Service Experiment is in the works, which will bring together industry end users, resource providers, software providers, and HPC experts.
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Amazon Brings HPC Cluster Instance to Europe

Jun 26, 2012 | Utility computing vendor Amazon is spreading the HPC cloud love outside the US borders. This week, the company launched an HPC-level cluster in its facility in Ireland.
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The Inevitable Nature of Failure

Jun 21, 2012 | Cloud technologies have been made popular by offering cheap, accessible services to their users. For all the benefits providers can deliver, they are unable to guarantee 100 percent availability.
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A Crystal Ball for Enterprise May Exist in the Cloud

Jun 19, 2012 | A growing trend in enterprise environments is the ability to deploy predictive analytics. Cloud services match up well with the requirements of these applications.
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A Cloud SPEC on the Horizon

Jun 18, 2012 | The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) has formed a working group to define cloud benchmark methodologies.
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NASA Goes Amazon… OpenStack Cries Over Ice Cream

Jun 14, 2012 | NASA, a co-founder of OpenStack, has decided to migrate their cloud applications to Microsoft and Amazon's platforms.
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SSD: The Solid State Dilemma

Jun 12, 2012 | Solid state storage provides a great many benefits for big data and cloud applications, but the technology has an achilles heel.
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Azure Changes Dress Code, Allows Tuxedos

Jun 07, 2012 | Microsoft Windows Azure will be adding the ability for end users to create virtual machines with Linux images.
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China Banks Big on Cloud

Jun 05, 2012 | IDC figures show China investing just over one billion dollars for cloud infrastructure in the year 2016.
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Cheap HPC Resources Rain on Enterprise

Jun 01, 2012 | Cloud services assist in the democratization of high-performance computing.
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Cloud Rendering in the Push of a Button

May 29, 2012 | A platform provider aims to speed rendering for graphics-heavy applications.
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No Place to Hide for Personal Data

May 25, 2012 | Since the Patriot Act's introduction, many concerns have been raised regarding cloud services and data privacy.
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NASA to Stop OpenStack Development

May 23, 2012 | The space agency revealed it would no longer be participating in the open-source cloud project.
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IBM Takes Aim at Amazon

May 22, 2012 | Big Blue has the capital and technological know-how to pull off a cloud coup.
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HP Cloud Helps Build Dream Movies

May 21, 2012 | During their decade-long partnership, HP has helped digital moviemakers at DreamWorks create such blockbuster animated features as Toy Story, Shrek and Kung Fu Panda.
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NVIDIA Raises Its Game to the Cloud

May 17, 2012 | NVIDIA GeForce GRID, a cloud gaming platform announced at the 2012 GPU Technology Conference (GTC), seeks to reduce the the latency associated with cloud gaming.
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Breaking the Cloud Barrier

May 15, 2012 | New Microsoft report shows that beyond the expected financial benefits, cloud services may offer more comprehensive security features compared to in-house IT operations.
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Vendors Demo Next-Gen Sequencing Platforms for Pharma

May 14, 2012 | During the second annual Pistoia Alliance conference, three teams demonstrated their newly-implemented cloud-based next-generation sequencing platforms.
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