With the announcement of Google Storage it looks as though Google will soon be competing with Amazon in the cloud storage business. Although Google Storage for Developers is currently available to a limited number of U.S. developers only, its pricing … Continued

Amazon Web Services launches its first Asia Pacific Region in Singapore.

An Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Corporation sponsored step by step guide demonstrating identity federation between an on-premise Windows Server Active Directory domain and an ASP.NET web application hosted on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service, using Microsoft’s Active Directory … Continued

VMWare-owned SpringSource – developer of enterprise Java frameworks such as Spring, Grails and Groovy – has acquired Rabbit Technologies Ltd, developer of RabbitMQ. RabbitMQ is an open messaging system used by Heroku and other cloud providers as their message broker. … Continued

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. Until now, Amazon RDS has been located in data centres in the U.S. but … Continued

Amazon have released Amazon Simple Notification Service to beta. Amazon SNS provides developers with a highly scalable, flexible, and cost-effective capability to publish messages from an application and immediately deliver them to subscribers or other applications. Amazon SNS delivers notifications … Continued

The 451 Group says that 57% of spending on cloud computing is done in the U.S., 31% in Europe and 12% in Asia. But when it comes to the adoption of infrastructure as a service, by using services such as … Continued

Is the announcement by the Amazon EC2 Cloud Service of the immediate availability of the Microsoft Windows Server® License Mobility Pilot evidence that there is an increasing amount of flexibility in licensing terms in the Cloud? Our view: The pilot … Continued

Dell, once the largest supplier of PCs in the world, has announced that it is to use Joyent as the platform for its web applications. Joyent provides cloud infrastructure based upon Solaris. Read more on Joyent.com

Rackspace, one of the largest cloud infrastructure providers, now offers Oracle Enterprise Linux as an operating system on their cloud servers. Oracle Enterprise Linux is an operating system based on, and competing with, Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Read more on … Continued