Losers in the cloud revolution
Some companies stand to benefit from the rise of the cloud and others stand to lose — ZDNet looks at the big names with the most to lose.
Some companies stand to benefit from the rise of the cloud and others stand to lose — ZDNet looks at the big names with the most to lose.
Some companies stand to benefit from the rise of the cloud and others stand to lose. ZDNet picks the IT winners.
The software-defined networking suite from Big Switch Networks gives admins access to OpenFlow-based technology for increasing network efficiency and is backed by Microsoft, Citrix and other major IT companies.
Amazon has opened up a datacentre hub in Australia, ticking off another continent in the cloud company’s journey of global expansion.
Amazon has dramatically cut the price of renting cloud database servers from its US datacentres while increasing their capability.
The infrastructure-as-a-service cloud uses technology from Node.js-steward Joyent to offer an uptime service-level agreement that is significantly better than that of AWS, Microsoft and Google.
Facebook, HP, Samsung and others are looking to jump-start development of software on ARM processors and in doing so are embarking on a risky, high-stakes road.
Shifting data between servers and Elastic Block Store volumes faster should mean applications will be more responsive.
Amazon has bulked up the capabilities of its standard range of rentable servers and also cut prices in two of its key US datacentre regions.
After years of cutbacks, changes at the top and troubles with its foundry partners, AMD has launched a RISCy plan to use ARM chips to take on Intel.
The designer behind the chips inside most of the world's mobile phones is preparing to take on new areas and cement its dominance in old ones with two new 64-bit chip designs.
In the short term, ARM chips will continue to have a low-power advantage over processors from x86 chipmakers like Intel and AMD, but eventually this advantage will disappear, according to AMD.
Google's platform-as-a-service had major problems on Friday, with its three supported languages - Python, Java and Go - registering anomalies in service across the world.
The ARM server specialist plans to release a new 32-bit server next year, then will follow this in 2014 with a 64-bit capable server.
The new Lulea datacentre in Sweden will be the first to use server hardware entirely designed by Facebook, demonstrating the social-networking company's commitment to sidestepping OEMs.