News in The Cloud & Virtualization
Amazon and Microsoft clouds struck by power outage
08 August 2011Stormy weather in Dublin blamed for data centre outage that affected users of EC2 and BPOS
Facilities giant ISS moves IT infrastructure to Atos' cloud
04 August 2011Site management company moves its UK-based IT infrastructure into a dedicated cloud environment, dropping incumbent IT services provider CSC
Open Cloud Initiative defines its principles
27 July 2011Industry body defines what it considers to be the basis of 'openness' in cloud computing
Government to collaborate in secure cloud using Huddle
21 July 2011The silicon roundabout start-up's software will be the first SaaS application hosted on the Government Secure Application Environment
Citrix buys cloud management vendor Cloud.com
12 July 2011Infrastructure software vendor picks up open source, "hypervisor-agnostic" cloud management provider
Three in ten virtual machines on AWS are insecure
22 June 2011Scientists find that 30% of virtual servers hosted on Amazon Web Services are improperly configured, exposing them to attack
Apple's iCloud will spur consumerisation, says analyst
07 June 2011TechMarketView analyst Richard Holway says tech giant's new content hosting service will make its devices even more popular in the workplace
Code hosting service BitBucket struck by DDoS
06 June 2011Hosted software development tool, operated by Australian company Atlassian, taken offline by denial of service attacks
New York Stock Exchange launches trading 'cloud'
02 June 2011Hosted services allow trading firms to outsource operations including regulatory reporting and market data analysis
Salesforce.com's profit margin just 1.1% in latest quarter
20 May 2011On demand CRM vendor's profit performance once again fails to quash questions about the viability of cloud computing
Telco/cloud buy up continues with Savvis acquisition
27 April 2011US telecommunications company CenturyLink buys cloud computing provider to the UK government
Amazon's cloud outage took three days to resolve
26 April 2011Some cloud computing customers were still suffering performance issues three days after last week's outage
Amazon Web Services struck by performance issues
21 April 2011Cloud computing services struck by errors and increased latency at web giant's North Virginia facilities
VMware rides data centre investment wave
20 April 2011Virtualisation software vendor grows revenue by a third as businesses pour money into data centre infrastructure
Vendors boast of huge cloud investments
07 April 2011Dell and Microsoft reveal billion dollar investments in cloud computing, as IBM launches raft of cloud services
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