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The iPad is dropping soon. The question remains, how big of an opportunity is it for the enterprise? Today we take a look at the work being done by software

The complexities that come with cloud computing go way beyond interoperability issues. Cost is a significant factor as is performance. What's emerging from these forces are new services such as

Apple's huge new data center in North Carolina is getting a little brother. According to Data Center Knowledge, Apple is building a new data center in Santa Clara, CA.

CouchDB, as we have frequently noted here at ReadWriteWeb, is a document-oriented database that offers a number of benefits, including its built-in synchronization and replication. And it's these two features

Google Docs is now available for editing in a mobile browser with support for the Android and the iPad. The support is part of the new editor for Google Docs

Today, we drop another another segment in the Rulers of the Cloud series, focusing on SalesForce.com, the cloud innovator that re-invented the rules of CRM (Customer Relationship Management). SalesForce is

Nutanix today announced its Complete Cluster, a high-performance hardware-plus-software solution that enables companies to virtualize their datacenters at a fraction of the cost of traditional server and SAN infrastructure. If

Spiceworks offers IT help desk, inventory management and server monitoring tools as an ad-supported software-as-a-service. Since we covered its launch, Spiceworks claims that it has 1.3 million IT professionals

The debate about private clouds continue as the traditional heavyweight enterprise software providers make their big and glossy pitches for their vision of a private cloud. So, it may come

Here an app store, there an app store, everywhere an app store. 2011 is quickly becoming a year of app stores, with each browser offering its own marketplace of Web

What is the effect of the Oracle acquisition of Sun Microsystems on cloud computing? Well, there have been quite a few if you look at where Sun's best and brightest

Oracle is launching a worldwide, cloud computing tour. It's a 50-stop show for developers and system administrators. But is the tour really about cloud computing? It seems more like virtualization

I've been involved with computers my whole life, but over the years, I've taken multiple sabbaticals from the devices. Upon my return about a year and a half ago, there

As part of its recent UI redesign, Twitter has also made some significant changes to its backend, and today Michael Busch updated the Twitter Engineering Blog with some details about

At the 8th annual U.S. Public Sector CIO summit in Redmond, Microsoft shared its progress in offering cloud software services to the attendees. The company has been making progress along

Innovations to improve SaaS platforms often come from people who use the technology every day. People need shortcuts or sometimes, ways to create a workaround for a change to

WordPress has grown by leaps and bounds from its origins as a personal blogging platform. Despite the evidence, though, a lot of folks view WordPress as a CMS that's exclusively

EMC Greenplum has pulled a YouTube video it produced that depicted Larry Ellison with a gift box tied to the fly of his pants. It was supposed to be a

We're delighted to announce ReadWriteWeb's fourth premium report, The Future of the Cloud: Cloud Platform APIs are the Business of Cloud Computing. Thanks to the generosity of our partners VMWare

In March, the environmental advocacy group Greenpeace released a report contending that by 2020, the major cloud computing providers could consumer more power than France, Germany, Canada and Brazil combined.

Aviary, the online creative platform is a visionary tool. When it launched a few years back, the irony of a Flash based Photoshop competitor was, well, ironic. With the launch

A number of developments have unfolded at the OpenStack Design Summit this past week in San Antonio. We've been following the news, seeing a growing excitement about an effort that

Scanning the news the other day and what do we see but a reminder of the many acronyms in the cloud computing world. Again, it's a vendor with a made

VMworld set up a lab this year that ran a hybrid cloud. The VMware team set up a data center at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco that connected

In the past few weeks, we've touched on a few examples of how events within applications are surfaced in activity streams. But it's not just applications that can communicate. A