Google and Yahoo Clash With ‘Blunt’ Ad-Blocking Company

Google and Yahoo have accused ad-blocking software Shine of destroying the relationship between advertisers and consumers, after an executive from the company called its solution a "nuclear weapon" threatening the…

Equinix Cloud Exchange Expands To Include Rackspace And IBM SoftLayer

Equinix announced that both Rackspace and IBM SoftLayer are now accessible directly through the Equinix Cloud Exchange in multiple regional datacenters. The addition of the cloud services grows Equinix' datacenter-to-cloud…

HP Announces Helion OpenStack 2.0 With Enhanced Lifecycle Management And Security Features

HP announced the latest version of the Helion OpenStack 2.0 Cloud platform with enhanced lifecycle management and security features. HP is targeting the latest release at enterprise customers hoping to…

The Ups and Downs of the IoT

With the Internet of Things (IoT) likely to ramp up in short order, there is a need to at least try to project what it all means and how things…

Cloud Forecast: Where It’s Been and Where It’s Heading

As we enter 2016, we can expect cloud providers to place a stronger emphasis on cloud security. Malicious attackers are becoming more sophisticated and finding new ways to target enterprise…

Box And Salesforce Release New Developer Tools

Many companies use both Box and Salesforce. Those two companies announced today that they have released new tools to make that cross-platform usage easier to create and deploy. “Solutions from…

Apple’s CloudKit is the MBaaS Answer to AWS and Azure Cloud Services

Among the flurry of news announced during theWWDC event by Apple as part of its annual developer conference, there were over a very interesting announcement made by Apple in the…

Looking Back at Top Cloud Computing Stories and Trends of 2014

Is it realistic now to run in the cloud all applications required by a business? Most cloud computing providers use of cloud computing elements in a hybrid combination of public…

IBM Big Bets on Software-Defined Storage and Hybrid Cloud

Gartner says that 70% of existing storage solutions will be available as software only in 2019. And in 2020, about 70 to 80% of unstructured data will be positioned in…

How to cross the DevOps chasm in a safe and reliable manner

If you read IT blogs regularly, you would assume DevOps is already the status quo, that everyone has ‘crossed the chasm’, and are practicing continuous delivery on a daily basis.…