Fusion-io targets Facebook, Apple with pile-it-high, sell-it-cheap flash
The enterprise flash card designer has launched a stack-them-high and sell-them-cheap flash product designed for 'hyperscale' tech companies.
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VMware and Red Hat joust over control of Vert.x open-source project
VMware has taken administrative control of an open-source project after its lead developer left the company for arch-rival Red Hat. The two companies are seeking a solution that will minimise disruption to the Vert.x community.
Facebook taps Asian companies for low-cost storage gear
The social-network is reportedly sidestepping traditional IT suppliers by using low-cost manufacturers for some of its storage gear to save on money and help it scale.
Microsoft's Ajax CDN tumbles worldwide
Microsoft's AJAX content distribution network, part of its Windows Azure cloud, appears to have gone down worldwide, damaging applications that depend on the third-party javascript libraries that are hosted there.
Heroku leads PaaS gang with expanded Python support
By adding support for Python 3.3.0 Heroku developers can access the latest version of the language, which marries new features with a greater emphasis on simplicity.
Oracle revs cloud push with Eloqua marketing tech buy
Oracle is buying Eloqua, a provider of cloud-based marketing and revenue management technology, for $871m, as the database giant grows its range of cloudy software aimed at specific industries.
Dell revamps appliances in private cloud push
Dell has brought advanced caching and systems management technologies to its range of Active Infrastructure on-premise appliances.
Dell commits to open-source software for its future clouds
Dell will use the OpenStack cloud management and automation software for its public and private cloud products, the company has announced, in a sign of increasing support for the open-source project.
HP smuggles networking gear into enterprises via service provider financing deal
HP is serving up pay-per-use managed networking technologies to service providers to encourage them to tap HP tech for their clouds.
The low-power struggle: Intel 'Centerton' Atom vs ARM Cortex A9
Centerton is the key technology behind Intel's effort to bring its x86 architecture chips into low-power microservers, in an attempt to nip ARM in the bud before it establishes marketshare.
If the future is the API, Mulesoft may have the Yellow Pages
The growth of cloud computing has led to a rise in the importance of APIs for passing information between different applications, but viewing, using and publishing APIs is still quite complicated - something Mulesoft is hoping to change.
Big data in the cloud? Be careful what you pay for
Cloud computing is a powerful technology for renting servers and storage, but if you work with big data, the costs of going outside your own datacentre could be prohibitive.
P2P storage: Can it beat the odds and take on the cloud?
In a world where IT is centralising, some companies have been trying to involve users by producing clouds based on peer-to-peer technology architectures. The past has shown it's not an easy trick to pull off.
Riak upgrades cloud database with multi-datacentre redundancy
The new upgrade to Riak Cloud Storage is compatible with Amazon Web Services and allows cloud admins to replicate data between multiple datacentres - potentially letting them avoid downtime and spin up their own global clouds.
Asian tech companies are eating HP, Dell and IBM's cloud lunch
Cloud computing is rearranging the datacentre infrastructure market: large server makers are seeing their dominance wane as competition grows from low-cost Asian manufacturers that sell directly to the clouds of Google, Amazon and others.
