Cloud Computing

Cloud-computing service providers should install their infrastructure close to their clients to mitigate risks, said Gartner VP Gene Phifer, adding that as cloud service providers deploy that strategy, they will …

Every company will adopt cloud computing in the near future, and even now a lot of enterprises don’t know it, but they are using some kind of cloud services. According …

Cloud computing has emerged as a top priority and a long-term, cost-effective solution to store content, both in the enterprise space as well as with consumers. As mobile and fixed broadband penetration …

The New York Times | July 24, 2011 | Kevin O’Brien When the founders of Shutl, a British courier service that makes deliveries in 90 minutes in busy London, decided …

Round Rock-based Dell Inc. (DELL) has already repurchased around $1.6 billion in shares so far this year and executives said the second-largest computer maker in the world plans to buy …

The launch of Google’s all-browser operating system, Chrome, was tempered somewhat last month by the fact that Acer, one of the two launch partners, didn’t have their hardware ready on time.

Bloomberg | June 7, 2011 | Manuel Baigorri Telefonica SA (TEF) is close to buying Acens, a Spanish company that specializes in cloud computing, for about 75 million euros ($110 million), …

In an odd move for a company usually so laser-focused on 100% secrecy, Apple today issued a press release to tell the world that Steve Jobs would be announcing a slew of new products at the firm’s upcoming Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) event next week in San Francisco.

Google just wrapped up its Chrome keynote at I/O 2011, during which SVP of Chrome Sundar Pichai and Co. revealed some of the details surrounding the long-overdue launch of Chrome OS, including some pretty attractive pricing for enterprise and education users.

Around this time yesterday we were just starting to hear rumblings about what the launch of Google Music would entail – and they were spot on. The service was debuted as predicted, with all the rumoured features and functionality. We point this out because, 24 hours later, another interesting, and completely plausible, rumour has surfaced courtesy of a story in Forbes.

Starting Monday, May 2, Dallas-based AT&T Inc. will start limiting amounts of Internet data that DSL and U-verse users are allowed before subscribers incur overage fees from the telecommunications company. …

Starting Monday, May 2, Dallas-based AT&T Inc. will start limiting amounts of Internet data that DSL and U-verse users are allowed before subscribers incur overage fees from the telecommunications company. …

It’s long been suspected that Google is taking a cloud-based approach to productivity on tablets and other portable devices, recently enabling mobile editing for their widely-used web office suite. However Google today surprised everybody by rolling out a full-featured Google Docs app for Android, with a couple of other goodies in tow.

This morning buttocks are tightly clenched all across internet-land, as Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) service, which is used by many big-name companies and services, has spectacularly crashed, taking down Quora, FourSquare, Hootsuite, and a whole host of other well-known services that use Amazon’s cloud to power their backend.

The second-largest computer maker in the world is in the news again, this time with Round Rock-based Dell Inc. (DELL) announcing plans to invest $1 billion in cloud data centers …