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• March 03, 2017 03 Mar'17

  Cloud-first strategy speeds spinoff of American Express' travel unit

  Given just months to spin off a $20 billion operation into a new, independent company, American Express Global Business Travel turns to the Dell Boomi cloud integration platform.

• February 16, 2017 16 Feb'17

  Find out exactly where the Docker Swarm architecture is heading

  The challenge of provisioning applications across clusters remains a significant one. Docker's Mike Goelzer explains where the company is headed with Docker Swarm.

• October 21, 2016 21 Oct'16

  Google Cloud Storage prices cut, Glacier cold storage competitor added

  Google is revamping its Cloud Storage services to woo users and challenge AWS with price cuts, lifecycle management and cold storage with quicker retrieval times than Amazon Glacier.

• March 17, 2016 17 Mar'16

  Architectural firm explains move to cloud-based data storage

  Growing through staff adds and acquisition forced a global architectural design firm to examine where and how it stores data files. The answer lay in cloud-based data storage.

• February 08, 2016 08 Feb'16

  Analytics as a service offers hindsight, insight and foresight

  As cloud-based analytics as a service explodes in popularity, decision makers can scrutinize the past for trends and contemplate predictions for the future.

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• July 16, 2015 16 Jul'15

  Microsoft cloud strategy turns competitors into partners

  For a company once known for its closed ecosystem, the Microsoft cloud strategy is increasingly reliant on the competition.

• June 01, 2015 01 Jun'15

  Ooyala achieves multi-cloud management with DIY elbow grease

  An AWS early adopter branched out into Azure and OpenStack while avoiding "sticky" shared services and incorporating open source automation tools.

• August 12, 2014 12 Aug'14

  'There's some truth' to Pivotal PaaS criticism

  DevOps pioneer Andrew Clay Shafer, recently hired by Pivotal, says the PaaS provider has some work to do to get its various business units on the same page. He also discusses the hype and reality of DevOps, big data and containers like Docker.

• July 11, 2014 11 Jul'14

  Google's container management project creates Kumbaya moment

  Red Hat, Microsoft, IBM, others are backing an open-source effort led by Google to develop a containerization management tool for startup Docker.

• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  Dell's latest tactic centers on cloud broker service

  Dell's upcoming cloud broker service is its latest in a string of cloud strategies. Will this one be the winner?

• February 27, 2014 27 Feb'14

  Cloud Foundry foundation prompts open source PaaS debate

  A new Cloud Foundry foundation provokes debate about the fate of OpenStack-based PaaS efforts.

• December 12, 2013 12 Dec'13

  Considering migration to the cloud? Answer five key questions first

  In this Q&A, Todd DeCapua of Shunra Software Ltd. discusses considerations for minimizing risk and maximizing benefits in a migration to cloud.

• December 06, 2013 06 Dec'13

  PaaS adoption upswing predicted for 2014; will it last?

  The Platform as a Service market could heat up next year, but what is PaaS, exactly? And will it eventually be subsumed under other cloud categories?

• November 14, 2013 14 Nov'13

  Pivotal's open source PaaS play arrives in-house

  Pivotal's latest offering includes private PaaS for enterprises. Sounds great in theory, but will it work across multiple platforms?

• July 26, 2013 26 Jul'13

  IBM joins Pivotal in developing Cloud Foundry's open source PaaS

  IBM will collaborate with Pivotal to develop Cloud Foundry's open source PaaS to allow enterprises to freely choose the platform they want.

• June 18, 2013 18 Jun'13

  PaaS market heats up with Red Hat OpenShift, Savvis AppFog buy

  PaaS made headlines last week, but it's still difficult to gauge the true level of interest in Platform as a Service in the enterprise world.

• November 01, 2010 01 Nov'10

  How Azure actually works, courtesy of Mark Russinovich

  Mark Russinovich -- Microsoft technical fellow, a lead on the Azure platform and a renowned Windows expert -- took pains at PDC '10 (Watch the "Inside Windows Azure" session here) to lay out a ...

• September 24, 2010 24 Sep'10

  RightScale lands $25 million to support cloud computing demand

  Cloud management service provider RightScale just landed a third round of funding, but this time, it's to handle growing demand.

• August 12, 2010 12 Aug'10

  Salesforce.com and CVM do supply-chain management in the cloud

  Salesforce.com rolled out the red carpet for its collaboration with CVM Technology when it put the company's supply-chain management tool on Force.com.

• June 22, 2010 22 Jun'10

  Salesforce Chatter is officially live

  Chatter, Salesforce.com's cloud-based social application, is now in general availability, but real-world reactions from users are mixed at best.

• February 25, 2010 25 Feb'10

  The Daily Cloud: Did Salesforce.com just become the biggest cloud computing company ever?

  Marc Benioff is bragging about running the biggest enterprise cloud company on planet Earth. Is he telling the truth?

• January 05, 2010 05 Jan'10

  Salesforce.com suffers service outage after operations failure

  Almost 70,000 customers experienced unexplained downtime afer a data center failure at Salesforce.com's only operations center in Silicon Valley.