Canonical Founder Mark Shuttleworth has really big, plans to put Ubuntu on your smartphone, on your tablet and (via OpenStack). What he doesn’t offer is details on revenue. Read more »
Company tells users of its cloud-based MySQL database service to move their instances by May 8 or else. (May 15 for paying customers.) Read more »
Just two years after acquiring WaveMaker for its enterprise Java expertise, VMware is selling those assets to Pramati. Read more »
Amazon is following the lead of its IT elders by rolling out technology certifications for developers, solution architects and admins. Read more »
Researchers at IBM’s Almaden Research Center used a two-ton scanning tunneling microscope to make a the world’s tiniest movie. Read more »
Everyone’s trying to add geographic data to mobile apps. Heroku says its embrace of PostGIS 2.0 will help devs do that faster and easier. Read more »
If you run your applications in AWS or Rackspace clouds, you probably want to monitor their performance and get real-time alerts should things go awry. Stackdriver says it has a service for you. Read more »
Cloud service and hosting provider adds distributed Riak NoSQL database to its mix of services. Read more »
Microsoft says it’s sold a billion dollars worth of cloud services. But as is usually the case, the value of cloud sales depends on what your definition of cloud is. Read more »
So much for running your AppFog apps on any cloud: The PaaS provider is dumping Rackspace support completely this week. Read more »
Companies like Cloudyn want to make Amazon Web Services less of a mystery to its users, but they have lots of competition — including from Amazon itself. Read more »
Eucalyptus wants to be the most compatible of AWS-compatible private clouds and says its support of Netflix OSS tools proves it is just that. Read more »
RightScale research says one cloud won’t fit all; mobile development landgrab continues with Facebook-Parse deal; Michael Dell talks up cloud opportunity. Read more »
No one outside of Seattle really knows how big Amazon Web Services is. But we do know that its overall category hit the $750 million mark last quarter. Read more »
Rethink Robotics re-tools Baxter the manufacturing robot to be a research assistant. Baxter can be programmed by a human trainer who walks it through its tasks. Read more »
Here are the best of the best of this year’s Structure Launchpad startups. Come check them out at Structure in June. Read more »
IBM is integrating Chef into SmartCloud and Microsoft is adding support for Azure as well in a sign that enterprises are fully aboard the devops bandwagon. Read more »
Boston startup says new features will help sales people sync appointments across Google Calendar and Salesforce.com. Read more »
Will Pivotal’s corporate overlords let Paul Maritz do as he pledges — offer a cloud-agnostic operating layer? I’m sure business customers hope so. Read more »
GE said it will use its 10 percent stake in the nascent Pivotal Initiative to bolster its industrial internet push Read more »
The cloud provider is banking that its new full integration of Opscde Chef, which is also supported by Amazon Web Services, will make it easier for AWS customers to move to Joyent Cloud. Read more »
Execs from Brown Brothers Harriman,Goodyear, the Mayo Clinic and Whirlpool — organizations that have more than 500 years of experience between them — talk about how they fuel innovation. Read more »
Don’t like the lay of the API land now? Wait a second, it’s gonna change as companies snap up API management expertise and other relevant resources. Read more »
Last week it was Intel buying Mashery, now it’s CA buying Layer 7. Both Mashery and Layer 7 are in the business of managing application programming interfaces. Read more »
Khosla Ventures, Eric Schmidt, Marc Benioff and Scott Banister pony up for Series A round as Jessica Jackley and Bob Kerrey join board of startup that matches college grads with backers. Read more »
Big Blue says UrbanCode’s software works well with its own Worklight mobile application development platfrom to speed up the creation and deployment of mobile (and cloud) apps. Read more »
Sometimes we forget: cloud adoption is just in the baby step phase; SAP says it’s profiting from cloud; battle for legacy and new app workloads gets more nuanced. Read more »
If your town is inundated with paramilitary forces and you’re told to stay put because a madman’s on the loose, Twitter is suddenly your connection to the world beyond. Read more »
When you’re in official lock-down, piecing together what’s going on a mile from your house requires triangulation — police scanners, Twitter, Facebook, radio and TV — all come into play. Read more »
Despite flat year-over-year WIndows revenue, Microsoft logged a 19 percent profit year over year. Not too shabby for the much maligned company. Read more »
Saar Gillai says HP’s darkest days are behind it and with its new OpenStack cloud, the company is hitting its stride. Then again, what else would he say? Read more »
OpenStack, like kale, can be baked, roasted, sliced, diced, sauteed and pureed to be made part of anything. Or at least that’s what its backers hope. Read more »
Cloudability says its new AWS cost analytics tool can handle the deluge of hourly cost data Amazon churns out and help customers nip budgeting and other usage problems in the bud. Read more »
There was lots of hubbub Tuesday at the OpenStack Summit. Actual customers talking about real implementations of the open-source cloud. Here’s what I learned. Read more »
Microsoft Windows Azure GM Bill Hilf calls Amazon a competitor, a partner and a neighbor: But that won’t stop Microsoft from launching an IaaS price war against Amazon Web Services. Read more »
ManageEngine says its new enterprise search function can help IT admins find the needle in the haystack of configuration data that can solve performance problems. Read more »
Just in time for the OpenStack Summit: new-look vendor Cloudscaling and legacy IT giant HP beef up their respective OpenStack clouds. Read more »
Telcos and service providers wanting to compete with Amazon in public cloud services can jump-start that effort by tapping Rackspace, says Rackspace. Read more »
Amazon’s chief vows to keep up the AWS feature race; OpenStack gets two more big backers as vendors cue up news for the OpenStack Summit. Read more »
The two networking powers have applied to become Gold members of the foundation that governs the OpenStack open-source cloud effort. Read more »
