Oracle has made available a set of free Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), to facilitate deploying Oracle solutions on Amazon EC2. Oracle customers can licence Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Fusion Middleware, and Oracle Enterprise Manager to run on Amazon’s cloud computing … Continued
Micro On-Demand instances for Amazon EC2
Amazon have announced Micro On-Demand instances for Amazon EC2. Pricing starts at $0.02 per hour for Linux and $0.03 per hour for Windows and the instances are available immediately in all regions. Micro On-Demand instances provide 613 MB of memory … Continued
Microsoft Case Study: Windows Azure – Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin is one of the largest defence contractors in the world, employing some 136,000 people, and also delivers IT solutions for government, healthcare and energy markets. The company uses Windows Azure to move parts of its clients infrastructure into … Continued
Google, Microsoft, IBM and Cisco battle for cloud email business
Google and Microsoft are ahead in the race to have the biggest number of customers for cloud email business. Coming out of nowhere in 2007, Google is now a major threat to all the other key players in the enterprise … Continued
RackSpace officially launches Cloud Servers for Windows
RackSpace, one of the largest suppliers of cloud servers, has announced the general availability of its Cloud Servers for Windows. The headline pricing for Rackspace Cloud Servers for Windows appears to be competitive with the Windows-based rival offerings from Amazon … Continued
RightScale Customers' Cloud Usage Grows Over 1,000% in One Year
RightScale, producers of cloud computing management Software-as-a-Service for managing cloud infrastructure from multiple providers, have announced that they’ve seen their customers’ cloud computing usage grow by over 1,000% for the year to June 2010. Read more at RightScale
Security fears still hamper cloud adoption
SaaS provider Mimecast reveal the results of a new survey into cloud computing in the US and UK. Read more at ReadWriteWeb
US cloud vendors ask for streamlined privacy rules in Europe
US tech giants, such as Google and Microsoft, are asking various European governments to streamline strict privacy rules regarding storing data in the cloud. Read more at Cloud Ave
Is everybody ready for the private cloud?
A survey finds that many companies aren’t ready for cloud computing. Read more at ReadWriteCloud
Google Apps for Government
Google Apps for Government is a version of Google Apps that has been approved by the U.S. government for use by its agencies cut IT costs & empower employees. Google claims that this is the first cloud computing suite with … Continued