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Microsoft cloud failure hurts its credibility and prospects for Office365

Posted May 16, 2011 - 11:19 am

Microsoft waited two days to discuss the reason for BPOS outages; users complained it seemed less like an enterprise provider than a company "that can't support its own software."
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Picking the right cloud provider: tough questions and fear of failure

Posted April 27, 2011 - 11:46 am

Picking a good cloud provider is a lot like picking a good hosting provider; you have to ask the right questions and plan for when having the right answers doesn't prevent failure.
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Springpad looks to reinforce cloud in wake of Amazon disaster

Posted April 27, 2011 - 11:06 am

Offering 24/7 service without 24/7 data centers became possible with the cloud, but Amazon has shown that even small Web 2.0 companies need failover alternatives to remain credible.
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Amazon crash reveals 'cloud' computing actually based on data centers

Posted April 22, 2011 - 3:24 pm

Hype makes it easy to forget the cloud requires the same skills and includes the same risks as n-tier applications and data-center computing anywhere.
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Amazon's east coast cloud crashes, brings down customers

Posted April 21, 2011 - 11:36 am

Amazon's EC2, poster child for enterprise class cloud computing, had major problems overnight, bringing down a series of web sites and other customers, marring its own reputation.
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VMware launches open-source cloud platform

Posted April 12, 2011 - 2:46 pm

Open-source code, support for a variety of tools and databases, available in your data center or someone else's, Cloud Foundry aims at Azure's weaknesses without adding too many of VMware's.
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Dell to offer both major types of cloud, from 10 new data centers

Posted March 22, 2011 - 3:48 pm

Michael Dell has promised to build 10 new data centers to support his ambition to be a cloud provider, offering IAAS and PAAS to compete with both Microsoft and Amazon.
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Amazon change makes 'public' cloud look a lot more like 'private'

Posted March 15, 2011 - 12:59 pm

VPNs, subnets, access control, make VMs in the look like LANs and make low-cost shared-tenancy look like pricey single-tenant clouds.
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'I'll always be there for you' Microsoft tells Azure users

Posted January 27, 2011 - 5:40 pm

Oddly, given how ephemeral the whole cloud-service environment can be, no major vendor has made length-of-service guarantees an issue. Until now.
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Netflix shows how to build a big business on the cloud

Posted December 17, 2010 - 2:30 pm

The future may belong to cloud computing, but few companies want to move themselves there no; Netflix moved to the future a year ago.
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Google App Engine violates stateless nature of Web

Posted December 2, 2010 - 5:52 pm

Google's app platform still doesn't compare to 'real' cloud platforms, but expanding datastores, task time limits and push all make it more useful than it was.
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Keeping your cloud packed up nice and tidy

Posted November 17, 2010 - 6:25 pm

Managed service/hosting company Datapipe offers to keep the slice of IT infrastructure you keep running on Amazon, assuming it's important enough that you'd rather it didn't crash unnoticed at midnight.
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EC2 SS2 cuts prices as Azure comes on strong

Posted November 1, 2010 - 7:23 pm

Cloud providers fight for attention, but does a new cloud-services portal threaten to commoditize a market for technology whose differentiating factors are invisible on purpose.
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Amazon 'free' cloud beats Microsoft at its own game

Posted October 25, 2010 - 10:36 am

Corporate toe-dippers will be more inclined to try cloud in general, and EC2 in particular, with free year of test-dev or short-project capacity from Amazon.
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Microsoft Demo is First Shot in Fight to Own the Cloud

Posted October 14, 2010 - 8:37 pm

A demo is small beer, but add provocation from Amazon, growing cloud spending, and threats to Windows and you can expect a full Redmond sally to own the cloud.
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