Recently besieged by competitors in a series of recent surveys that indicate strong challenges to its longstanding cloud supremacy, Amazon Web Services nevertheless was recently ranked by Forrester Research Inc. as the top public cloud platform for software development.
Google Inc. challenged established cloud services leader Amazon Web Services Inc. with last week's introduction of a beta Nearline Storage service for housing data that needs to be kept by enterprises but is infrequently accessed.
A new survey shows that many executives still prefer only what they know.
Finding the right balance between access and security across firewalls can be tricky.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 03/13/2015
The latest revision has more than 650 upgrades.
The company gets a new round of cash, raising its value to more than $1 billion.
Improvements to the HP Helion Eucalyptus solution for creating private clouds compatible with Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) highlighted recent updates to Hewett Packard's Helion cloud ecosystem tools.
Cosentry emphasizes its nearness to the businesses it serves.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 03/10/2015
A new Microsoft partner, Sphere 3D, is making containers that have fewer dependencies than Docker.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/10/2015
SocketPlane, which took off just three months ago, will add six SDN experts to the Docker roll.
Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) comes out on or near the top of most cloud usage surveys, but a recent report indicates growth is slowing down for the perennial cloud services frontrunner.
New hybrid technologies are the latest addition to the Big Blue growing portfolio.
Public clouds, on the other hand, made significant gains in the RightScale poll.
Public clouds also outpaced private cloud usage in the informal, limited survey.
The goal, says Dan, is to make it a "serious enterprise tool" with its deep hooks into the open source, private cloud platform.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 02/23/2015
Springpath's SDDC solution isn't tied to any specific hardware platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/19/2015
The IT researcher adds a new security category to the Internet of Things, called the Identity of Things.
Just because it isn't in your datacenter doesn't mean you're not responsible for it. AppNeta tools can monitor Software-as-a-Service applications, something a company still needs to do.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 02/18/2015
A steadily expanding list of services is helping enterprises move operations to the cloud, and Amazon Web Services Inc. is at the top of that list, according to a new survey.
Of 140 respondents, just 5 percent aren't experiencing cloud issues.