Security monitoring – the type involving traditional security information and event management (SIEM) – can be done in some public …
Red Hat’s OpenShift PaaS goes live
After two years of beta testing, the Red Hat OpenShift Online platform as a service (PaaS) has been pressed into commercial use, …
The third option
By coupling the spark and drive of a successful start-up with some real business sense, Infor has become much more …
VMware launches network-savvy cloud service
VMware has launched its long-anticipated public infrastructure as a service (IaaS), touting its virtual networking capabilities as a differentiator from …
Google rolls out by-the-minute cloud billing, introduces a new NoSQL database
Google, attempting to build its reputation as an enterprise and developer-focused cloud computing provider, today said its cloud platform is …
Cray offers a more modest supercomputer for the enterprise
Supercomputer manufacturer Cray has expanded its portfolio of systems for the technical enterprise market. The company’s newest machine, the Cray …
SAP unveils HANA Enterprise Cloud service
SAP is set to offer customers the option of running their applications on top of a cloud-based version of its …
Brocade unleashes a data centre barrage
Brocade this week extended its data centre networking portfolio with hardware and software enhancements designed to better integrate and align physical …
Infor uninterested in owning cloud data centres
Infor’s CEO, Charles Phillips, on Monday said that the vendor has no intention of owning its own data centres for …
HP to create enterprise-friendly cloud, takes aim at AWS
HP can stake a bigger claim in the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market by creating an enterprise-friendly rival to …
Cloud pricing war heats up
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has lowered the cost of running Windows on its cloud, while Google announced a reduction on …
Rumours fly on VMware public cloud offering
VMware is reportedly preparing a public cloud offering that it would run itself, however VMware officials have refused to comment on …
AWS provides easy entry to SAP HANA
It’s no secret that SAP’s HANA in-memory database has become the centrepiece of the software vendor’s technology strategy. HANA features …
Many private clouds ‘not clouds at all’
The line between virtualisation and a private cloud can be a fuzzy one, and according to a new report by Forrester Research, …
Pick of the bunch
When somebody decides to host a global tour, one of the things they have to decide is in which city …
Oracle launches line of on-premise IaaS systems
Oracle has launched a set of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) systems that companies can run in-house and pay for on a monthly …
Dropbox users face weekend frustration
The weekend saw Dropbox users frustrated by issues with syncing and uploading files, as well as creating shareable links. The …
A new world
The rise of virtualisation and cloud has revolutionised the data centre. With many touting 2013 as the year of cloud …
Cloud service partnerships to boom in 2013
Cloud service providers will seek out partnerships to offer a wider breadth of services that customers are increasingly demanding, a new report …
Red Hat to acquire ManageIQ
Red Hat has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ManageIQ, which provides enterprise cloud management …