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More than a century after the dawn of the automobile age, cars are a young person’s game again. Sure, the grey-haired bigwigs have started to catch on to the big trends—electricity, automation, connectedness—but if this week’s news is any indication, … Continue reading →

(Reuters) – Snap Inc, searching for ways to reinvigorate a slowing growth rate and increase advertising revenue for its Snapchat messaging app, said this week it has racked up 10 million users for its Discover news and video feature in … Continue reading →

Google is making it easier to cut through Internet nonsense with a new Google News tag purpose-built for our era of discontent, fake news stories on social media, and flat-out lies. The search giant says you will soon see a … Continue reading →

In the cloud business, every server vendor is a loser. Synergy Research Group recently released its rankings of the top vendors in cloud infrastructure, with Cisco, HP Enterprise, and Dell EMC claiming the top three spots for public cloud hardware. … Continue reading →

With its recent release of the fourth technical preview of Windows Server 2016, Microsoft has proven its commitment to improving its server for both on-premises and cloud-based deployments. Microsoft’s recent on-premises tools have been getting half-hearted (if that) feature upgrades. … Continue reading →

Facebook is updating its search tool to make it easier for users to find things that interest them among the 2 trillion items archived by the company’s index. The update boasts personalized search suggestions, the ability to search through public posts in … Continue reading →

Embarking on a new IT project is a major undertaking no matter what your company’s scope or size, but when you’re News Corp — with 10 business units and 25,000 employees around the globe — it’s not for the faint … Continue reading →

Embarking on a new IT project is a major undertaking no matter what your company’s scope or size, but when you’re News Corp — with 10 business units and 25,000 employees around the globe — it’s not for the faint … Continue reading →

Cloud Computing Co. Brass Ducks Pair Of NY Investor Suits Law360, New York (February 04, 2015, 7:28 PM ET) — A New York judge on Wednesday threw out a pair of shareholder derivative lawsuits that claim the leadership of IntraLinks … Continue reading →

CTCがOpenStack軸にクラウド関連サービスを強化、研究開発部隊も設置 伊藤忠テクノソリューションズ（CTC）が、クラウド関連サービスの強化に動いている。IaaS（Infrastructure as a Service）構築用のOSS（Open Source Software）である「OpenStack」を軸に、海外のクラウド関連サービス事業者と相次いで契約したほか、クラウド関連技術を研究 … Read more on IT Leaders OpenStackベンダーの米ミランティスが日本法人設立、CTCとリセラー契約 クラウド構築ソフト「OpenStack」の構築支援サービスやディストリビューション（検証済みパッケージ）の販売などを手がける米ミランティスは2015年2月3日、日本法人のミランティス・ジャパンを設立し、日本市場での営業を開始したと発表した。同社は伊藤忠テクノ … Read more on ITpro OpenStack Neutronの「中」の動きを追いかけよう 本記事は日本仮想化技術主催のOpenStack最新情報セミナー（2014年10月開催）で実施した実機デモを基にしており、前提環境は基本的にOpenStack Icehouseリリースです。今回新たに最新のJunoリリースで変更された部分を記事後半にまとめていますので参考にして … Read more on @IT DevOps with a Purpose By @ITInvolve | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps] Unless you've been living under … Continue reading →

The Business Of The Bare Metal Cloud Bare metal Cloud enables Cloud users to complement their virtual Cloud services with dedicated servers and eliminate virtualization overhead without sacrificing the efficiency, flexibility and scalability benefits of Cloud computing. A bare metal … Continue reading →

Red Hat CEO Expects Growth From Cloud, Storage Storage, OpenStack (an open-source private cloud platform) and Open Shift (platform-as-a-service) are all much newer. The revenue numbers are relatively small, but we have several hundred customers at some stage of the … Continue reading →

Letv, Microsoft to jointly build a global video cloud platform Letv.com, China's leading video website, is teaming up with Microsoft to build a global video cloud platform, reports Yicai, the website of Shanghai's China Business News. The two announced a … Continue reading →

DigitalOcean Co-Founder and CEO Ben Uretsky: Finding a Place in the Cloud … For instance, Amazon had originally built its enormous server farms to underpin what's become the world's biggest ecommerce business, and Amazon Web Services, which offers public cloud … Continue reading →

Top Cloud Computing Services Trends of 2014 The cloud has become a significant part of the IT environment at many organizations, as they adopt public, private and hybrid cloud strategies. Here are some of the interesting developments in the area … Continue reading →

January 2015 Issue of Linux Journal: Security Kyle Rankin gets serious about security this month with a practical walk-through on the basics of running a secure server in the cloud. EC2 instances are commonplace in almost every company's infrastructure, but … Continue reading →

IBM adds 12 Cloud Data Centers, Endorses OpenStack Throughout Cloud in general, and especially hybrid cloud, needs open standards This is driving unparalleled cooperation between the large vendors, and projects like OpenStack are where that cooperation is in plain sight. … Continue reading →

Merging Old and New: Embracing the Hybrid Cloud Companies today typically use three types of computing: dedicated servers in the corporate data center that run key applications; pooled resources in a private cloud in the corporate data center; and resources … Continue reading →

iQ Solutions Group Launches New Cloud Computing Services Platform Powered … “Powering our cloud platform with Peak complements what we have been doing on a per- project basis and allows us to provide robust business continuity strategies for our clients,” … Continue reading →

NIMBOXX Receives 2014 Cloud Computing Product of the Year Award NIMBOXX™, creator of the atomic unit of the software-defined data center, announced that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named the company's all-in-one software-defined data center a 2014 Cloud … Continue reading →

Hybrid Cloud Configuration: Is it Right for Your Business Because it is a hybrid configuration, you have options to the location of your cloud communication. You could have on-premise cloud servers for faster performance or choose to opt for a … Continue reading →

OpenStack to Drive NFV Management Saar Gillai, senior vice president and chief operating officer for HP Cloud and general manager for NFV at HP, said the industry will learn that OpenStack and NFVs are joined at the proverbial hip. Most … Continue reading →

After years of touting its cloud computing tech, Joyent open sources it Cloud computing provider Joyent has long been respected for its technological chops, but has struggled to find an identity among a sea of cloud providers and technologies with … Continue reading →

SAP's HANA Cloud platform opens doors Down Under SAP Australia has swung open the doors for its SAP HANA cloud platform, operated from its local data centre in Sydney. The German-based enterprise giant said its platform as a service (PaaS) … Continue reading →

Rackspace Re-architects its OpenStack Private Clouds Rackspace has redesigned the fundamental architecture of OpenStack private clouds it deploys for its customers using Icehouse, the latest release of the open source cloud system. The changes, the company claims, make it more … Continue reading →

How software defined networking and cloud computing pave the way towards a … For an example, it will be possible in the medium-term to develop network functions and services, spanning L2-L7, as applications and execute them on virtual resources (e.g. … Continue reading →

Bracket Computing bridges local servers, cloud capacity The vision is to help organizations process applications wherever it makes the most sense from a cost or resource perspectives. The approach could also be used to bridge operations between on-site servers and … Continue reading →

Why Rackspace Hosting, Inc. (NYSE:RAX) Closed Higher? Rackspace Hosting, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides cloud computing services and managing Web-based IT systems for small and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises worldwide. The company's service offering combines hosting on … Read more … Continue reading →

Anchor Chooses Mellanox InfiniBand to Enable E-Commerce Cloud Hosting … Anchor specializes in providing managed hosting services for Magento e-commerce customers in both Australia and the USA. The new OpenStack cloud has been architected around Mellanox's FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand solutions … Continue reading →

Canonical rolls out home-grown Ubuntu OpenStack distro Exclusive Canonical is spinning its own OpenStack distro to simplify deployment of Linux clouds and ensure its place in an expected cloud winners' club. Mark Shuttleworth's firm is today expected to roll the … Continue reading →