Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina, who left that company under a cloud, now paints herself as an economic whiz kid on Sunday morning talk shows. Note to Fiorina: Not everyone has amnesia. Read more »
Another week of high-profile outages may spook some prospective cloud users but Amazon Web Services strength shows the appeal of cloud. And Microsoft keeps adding Windows Azure options. Read more »
Just days after the Microsoft Office 365 Premium launch, the service goes down for many users. Read more »
If you thought Amazon Web Services would stop churning out new features and cutting prices on older ones, you have another think coming. Read more »
Folks looking to browse or buy on Amazon.com’s site are getting a blank page. Read more »
Developers over at Twitter have open sourced the code for Flight, a JavaScript framework for web applications. Read more »
Oh no! Information addicts were distressed to find Twitter down again for the better part of an hour Thursday morning. Read more »
The Gray Lady said Chinese hackers broke into its systems repeatedly over the last 4 months as the company published an expose on Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao. Read more »
Vendors from tiny startups to giants like RSA, IBM and Cisco are rushing to incorporate big data expertise to beef up IT security. Read more »
Tomfoolery aims to make enterprise apps mobile and fun; now it has $1.7 million from Jerry Yang, Brad Garlinghouse and others to get started. Read more »
Tod Nielsen, who helped lead VMware’s applications platform group, has moved over to the Pivotal Initiative spin-off where he’ll report to old pal Paul Maritz. Read more »
VMware shares took it on the chin Tuesday, a day after the company talked down its projected earnings for the next quarter. Read more »
Dr. Nic Williams has left Engine Yard to promote the use of the rival Cloud Foundry Platform as a Service. Read more »
Stealthy startup founded by EqualLogics’ team now has more funding to simplify data analytics the way their former company streamlined storage. Read more »
Hybrid cloud, software-defined data center, and end-user computing are all in. Other VMware efforts will be out in the upcoming year as the company seeks to regain focus. Read more »
A new Google FAQ gives some detail about how the search giant deals with law enforcement and government requests for information on Google users. Read more »
The upside of earning a graduate degree in business isn’t what it once was, according to new research by the Financial Times. Read more »
Lots of personnel moves at and between VMware and parent company EMC (and spinoff Pivotal Initiative as it gets ready to launch.) Also: Cisco and NetApp launch more FlexPods. Read more »
Star engineer Mark Lucovsky appears to be back at VMware, after handing the Cloud Foundry PaaS over to VMware/EMC’s Pivotal Initiative spin-off. Read more »
General Electric, the massive industrial conglomerate, will not be content to let IT leaders like IBM and Google hog all the glory in the internet of things era. Read more »
If you build your company’s software on an external platform as a service, what happens when that platform disappears? PHPFog users are finding out. Here’s a cautionary tale. Read more »
For its second quarter, Microsoft’s profits sagged to $6.4 billion or 76 cents per share from $6.6 billion (79 cents per share) compared to last year’s comparable period. Read more »
IBM, and every other tech company in the universe, likes to tout its cloud computing revenue without actually disclosing it. For its Q4 IBM claimed a whopping 80 percent growth rate in cloud revenue but no real numbers. Read more »
Both Microsoft and Dell face lagging stock prices and the perception that they both missed the boat in mobile. But the two companies also face very real threats to their core enterprise IT businesses. Read more »
Puppet and VMware will work on joint solutions to ease the configuration and management of IT environments, says Puppet Labs CEO Luke Kanies. Read more »
If Microsoft takes a big stake in Dell it could sway operating system and software loaded on Dell PCs, servers and potentially other devices. Read more »
The company behind the popular Steam online gaming platform is definitely not impressed by the latest Windows version and is instead pushing Windows developers to Ubuntu Linux. Read more »
Companies of all sizes worry about theft of key information but until recently, the use of data loss prevention technology was too rich for their blood. The adoption of cloud technologies to enable DLP managed services like Verdasys is changing that. Read more »
Updated: The popular project-hosting and code-sharing site is apparently caught up in the Great Firewall of China and is unavailable to users there, according to multiple reports. Read more »
Amazon is reportedly on-board for a new data center build-out in Virginia; OpenStack Foundation preps for new year with board elections; another analyst declares Oracle’s cloud as a non-cloud. Read more »
Amazon’s cloud services are a huge hit among startups with thin IT budgets. But Amazon wants be a for-real platform for important enterprise-class applications as well. Should it launch an enterprise challenge? Read more »
More questions around HP’s cloud strategy cropped up this week with the reported departure of Zorawar Biri Singh, SVP of HP Converged Cloud and GM for HP Cloud Services. Read more »
Intel’s move into the custom chip manufacturing business would get a boost if, as Bloomberg reports, it has netted Cisco Systems as a customer. Read more »
Heroku says its new Postgres Dataclips service eases sharing of SQL queries with Google Docs integration and broader availability. Read more »
Telx is adding AWS Direct Connect for the New York metropolitan area, home to many businesses that might want faster, more secure connection to AWS US-East. Read more »
No wonder Dell and HP are exploring drastic options — Dell reportedly looking to go private and HP re-evaluating plans to sell of business units: More of their bread-and-butter server business is disappearing into the ether. Read more »
OVH.com, a big ISP based out of France, hopes to parlay its “green” data center in Montreal to build its US and Canadian business. Read more »
The audacity of a database startup: NewSQL vendor NuoDB dares to propose an update to E.F. Codd’s 12 rules of relational databases, the blueprint for SQL databases for decades. Read more »
Want to hear about the latest and greatest in Netflix’s home-grown technology? The company will host an open-source open house for developers on February 6. The goal is to recruit top-flight developers and to encourage construction of alternatives to Amazon Web Services. Read more »
The use of Open Compute hardware by government agencies got a boost this week when Hyve Solutions, which specializes in Open Compute design, was added to the GSA schedule of approved IT vendors. And, Microsoft Hotmail and Dropbox suffered major outages. Read more »
