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Rohan Pearce Netflix CEO likens cloud computing to early coding era

CEO of US video streaming company Netflix, Reed Hastings, says that the current state of cloud computing is akin to the era before compilers took some of the heavy lifting away from coding. Netflix...

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Cloud computing showdown: Amazon vs. Rackspace (OpenStack) vs. Microsoft vs....

It wouldn't be a mischaracterization to equate the cloud computing industry to the wild, wild west. There is such a variety of vendors gunning at one another and the industry is young enough that true...

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10 cloud predictions for 2013

Christine Burns | Network World The time for dabbling in the cloud is over, according to industry analysts. 2013 is the year that companies need to implement a serious cloud strategy that puts certain...

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Rackspace CTO: Services & OpenStack – Not Price – Key To Winning Cloud Computing

While cloud computing giants Amazon, Google and Microsoft scramble to cut prices to lure customers to their cloud-computing infrastructures, their smaller rival Rackspace Hosting is heading in the...

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7 Predictions for Cloud Computing in 2013 That Make Perfect Sense

Every year at this time, analysts, prognosticators and pundits alike try to size up the year ahead in technology. And — no surprise — cloud computing is this year’s hottest topic. Cloud is already a...

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Savvis Cloud Storage Takes On Amazon, Google

Savvis is moving more convincingly into standard cloud services. The managed hosting provider launched Savvis Direct as a beta compute service Monday, following on its Dec. 3 launch of Symphony Cloud...

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Australia’s cloud outlook

The high level of virtualization in Australia and customer concerns about off-shore hosting of data and latency make the country a tempting location for cloud providers to set up shop, despite the high...

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Is cloud computing the ‘future of the future?’

At the National ICT Business & Innovation Symposium recently, Jeremy Geelan, president of 21st Century Internet Group Inc concluded his keynote address by saying, “Cloud computing allows you to...

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Weather Channel forecasts heavier reliance on cloud computing

During Hurricane Sandy this fall, The Weather Channel experienced its highest traffic ever. Normally the media company -- which spans television, desktop and mobile platforms -- supports about 90...

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This week in cloud: Rackspace and Cloudant team; OpenNebula updates

Cloudant aims for cloud ubiquity with Rackspace partnership; OpenNebula offers private testing cloud inside Amazon Web Services; and Dell vows (late) OpenStack-based public cloud, partners with Inktank...

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Amazon makes it easier to track costs, usage in its cloud

Somewhat undercutting a budding ecosystem of vendors that provide similar services, Amazon Web Services today announced increased features for customers to track their usage of AWS public cloud resources

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Amazon Lets Cloud Users Move Storage Snapshots Among Regions Feature To...

Amazon (NSDQ:AMZN) Web Services (AWS) is offering a feature to allow cloud users to move their storage volumes across AWS regions to create redundancy and improve disaster recovery. Amazon cloud...

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Cloud computing: A bird’s eye view

What are we looking for? Companies set to profit from the growth of cloud computing. While the idea of access to software and services delivered via an online network has been around since the 1960s,...

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Amazon, Google battle over retail, mobile gadgets, cloud computing to escalate

^BC-Analysis: Amazon, Google on collision course in 2013 Analysis: Amazon, Google on collision course in 2013 By Alexei Oreskovic and Alistair Barr SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - When Amazon.com Inc CEO...

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Why Buying Backlinks is Bad for SEO

This is an easy question to answer: Don't buy links. That is, don't buy links if you care about ranking well in Google in the long-term. They can seriously mess you up. In very simple terms, links are...

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10 of the most useful cloud databases

IDC predicts that big data is growing at an annual rate of 60% for structured and unstructured data. Businesses need to do something with all that data, and traditionally databases have been the...

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Amazon to See a New Cloud Market in 2013

This has not been a good year for the Amazon.com (AMZN_) cloud, or at least its Virginia data center. The system suffered its fourth outage of the year on Christmas Eve, ruining Netflix' (NFLX_)...

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This year in cloud: Amazon-almost-all-the-time and the other 5 top stories of...

Last year, AWS saw big success and big snafus; Superstorm Sandy prompted worry about data center location; legacy IT giants bought their way into SaaS; VMware regroups; the OpenStack crowd got their...

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Cloud Latency Issues? Dedicated Network Connections Will Help

Do you ever encounter delays in loading web-based applications and get impatient? Resulting from poor network latency, or how fast data is transferred from one location to another, these delays are...

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Cycle Computing spins up 10,600 instances in Amazon’s cloud

High performance cloud computing company Cycle Computing is no stranger to spinning up massive clusters of servers in Amazon's public cloud, but this week the company says it recently ran one of its...

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