Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has opened a data center hub in Silicon Valley, adding yet another gigantic player to a growing, but already hotly-contested cloud…
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You can now automatically recover instances for Amazon EC2
In yet another sign that the big cloud players of Google, Amazon and Microsoft have moved on from just storage price cuts…
Read MoreOnApp buys SolusVM to boost the demand side of its federated marketplace
SolusVM will give OnApp a more bare-bones deployment option for those who want it, but more importantly it's intended to increase demand for the spare capacity rattling around in the OnApp marketplace.…
Read MoreSeven signs your hair is on fire: The challenges of scaling Hadoop
Scaling Hadoop can be an enormously tricky process. Here are seven common problems and ways to solve them.…
Read MoreRackspace shows revenue growth in a quarter where price cutting was rampant
Rackspace execs point to record year-over-year revenue growth as a sign that their "managed cloud" push may resonate even in a cut-throat environment.…
Read MoreAmazon Web Services’ Achilles heel: Complexity
Good news: Amazon has more instance types and higher-level services than any competitor. Bad news: that means a ton of complexity and tracking challenges for users.…
Read MoreWhy you should know about DigitalOcean if you don’t already
On this week's Structure Show, DigitalOcean CEO explains why simplicity (and love???) are key to his company's success in the hyper-competitive IaaS world.…
Read MoreSinglehop, small IaaS player for small business, scores $14.8M to grow and buy stuff
The small IaaS player, which already offers an array of infrastructure to small businesses through VARs, says the money will help it add to its roster in part via strategic acquisitions.…
Read MoreCan CenturyLink cloud compete with AWS on price? “Yes we can,” says its cloud chief
The Structure Show: Andrew Higginbotham swears that CenturyLink can even beat Amazon on bandwidth price so if you thought the price wars were winding down, you have another think coming.…
Read MoreOnApp’s federated CDN model has limitations, says departing customer CDNify
CDNify has revamped its service, largely by setting up its own network instead of reselling OnApp's federated CDN. It had a few choice criticisms to make as it moved on -- but are they valid?…
Read MoreSpanish IaaS provider Gigas picks up an extra $2.7M to fund Latin American push
The Madrid-based firm says fitting into the Spanish business culture counts for a lot in its quest to take on Amazon Web Services.…
Read MoreParallels teams up with Flexiant to take on vCloud Director
The tie-in gives Parallels the ability to offer a fully hypervisor-agnostic package for service providers looking to provide infrastructure-as-a-service, and it gives Flexiant a huge boost to its reach.…
Read MoreOracle to Amazon: It’s on
Larry Ellison, who once blasted cloud as a fad, now says he's not only fully aboard but will challenge Amazon, Microsoft and Rackspace on affordable Infrastructure as a Service.…
Read MoreDigitalOcean bulks up European presence with new Amsterdam data center
Spunky IaaS player DigitalOcean adds much more capacity and private networking capabilities in new Amsterdam facility.…
Read MoreWhy we should care about — but not overreact to — cloud glitches
The week in cloud: Windows Azure, Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services have all seen their share of problems. But anyone who runs their own data center should see that coming.…
Read MoreGoogle adds load balancing, SQL-like queries in hot pursuit of more cloud business
Google has announced the availability of free load balancing for its Infrastructure-as-a-Service product and other new cloud features as it looks to rev up and challenge Amazon Web Services.…
Read MoreDigitalOcean takes $3.2M to make a simple cloud bigger
DigitalOcean, a young Infrastructure-as-a-Service company, is taking seed funding to add capacity and build out its services. At the same time, the company wants to remain easy to use.…
Read MorePRISM turned up the volume on cloud security conversations
Security has been one issue inhibiting cloud adoption, and the hubbub about PRISM only seems to have made it a bigger concern. That's why we'll talk about cloud security at Structure:Europe in September.…
Read MoreVMware execs all smiles with great report card, leaving its troubles for another day
VMware leaders had good financial news to report on Tuesday's earnings call, but they didn't say much about the string of executives leaving recently, among other challenges .…
Read MoreAnalysts: Google cloud revenue hit $200M last quarter and will keep expanding
Google's cloud products took on $200 million in revenue last quarter, TBR analysts estimated. They see full speed ahead for adoption from developers and enterprises.…
Read MoreMicrosoft has a million servers, but it still doesn’t rule the cloud
Microsoft has boasted of big Azure revenue and now it's talking up server count. The metrics are misleading, though, because developers just don't flock to Azure the way they do to other clouds.…
Read MoreStructure 2013 recap: Clouds and devops are hot, while the SDN jury is out
Speakers at GigaOM's Structure conference this week displayed the ferocity of the public-cloud market and the broadening adoption of private clouds among large businesses.…
Read MoreWhy VMware isn’t flinching as Amazon’s cloud keeps growing
While VMware just revealed the specifics on its shared-infrastructure play and has to play catch-up with Amazon Web Services, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger can think of a few advantages of its own.…
Read MoreNetflix builds a tool for jumping between Amazon clouds
Amazon Web Services outages have prodded customer Netflix to write software that can keep the service alive amid infrastructure issues. Now comes a new tool addressing issues around the Christmas Eve outage.…
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