Cloud 5: Will the edge kill the cloud, public cloud’s role in emerging tech
Welcome to The Cloud 5, our weekly feature where we scour the web searching for the five most intriguing and poignant cloud links we can find. Before we jump into this week’s links, please have a look at one of...
As OpenStack grows up, it’s becoming a significant economic engine
OpenStack was created in 2010 by Rackspace and NASA as a check against the growing power of AWS in the cloud. People were concerned about AWS’s “black box” approach to cloud service delivery and the consortium of companies that started...
Cloud 5: Cloud’s tipping point, serverless or containers
Welcome to The Cloud 5, our weekly feature where we scour the web searching for the five most intriguing and poignant cloud links we can find. Before we jump into this week’s links, please have a look at one of...
Big tech companies make huge gains led by cloud computing
Last week was a good week for big tech, and by extension cloud computing. This helped lead the way to huge gains for the big three — Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. As CNBC reported on Friday, the big five, which also...
Cloud 5: AWS revenue soars, Cisco and Google partner
Welcome to The Cloud 5, our weekly feature where we scour the web searching for the five most intriguing and poignant cloud links we can find. Before we jump into this week’s links, please have a look at one of...
Report finds Chinese companies dominate China’s cloud infrastructure market
Synergy Research released a report this week that concluded large, native Chinese companies are in firm control of the cloud and data center market in China, and will continue to be for the immediate future. This is in stark contrast...
Cloud 5: Oracle moves into AWS’s backyard, cloud security 101
Welcome to The Cloud 5, our weekly feature where we scour the web searching for the five most intriguing and poignant cloud links we can find. Before we jump into this week’s links, please have a look at one of...
IBM could finally be moving in the right direction
IBM has been having a rough time for, oh, the past five and a half years. The company has had declining revenue for 22 straight quarters, but yesterday while it still had declining revenue, Big Blue gave an earnings report...
Cloud 5: Microsoft’s green Irish cloud, AI as a service takes off
Welcome to The Cloud 5, our weekly feature where we scour the web searching for the five most intriguing and poignant cloud links we can find. Before we jump into this week’s links, please have a look at one of...
Alibaba flexes its muscles in the cloud
Alibaba made headlines this week with a couple of announcements that could boost its cloud computing business in the world. While the Chinese eCommerce giant is a big deal in China, they don’t appear to be a major player quite...
