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Following a private beta, the platform-as-a-service (hosted on Amazon Web Services) PHP Fog is now generally available following a private beta. It has a free option offering 100MG of

The iPad 2 includes a camera built in that you can use for video conferencing. It has built-in tethering for embedded hotspots. It has WiFi and 3G. It has AirPlay

The LA Times reported over the weekend that Google had missed its deadline for implementing a the city's new email system, in part because it had not fully responded to

Have you ever wanted to give your manager a short book that would explain all the different ways that you can virtualize something in your enterprise? Now you can, thanks

At Google Atmosphere last month, Google Apps President David Girouard said that the company gets lots of requests to open more apps from the Google portfolio. Google responded to those

Follow our coverage as we report live from VMworld, the industry's largest virtualization conference, August 30 through September 2 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Hear directly from our

When any enterprise organization makes the move the cloud, it's a fairly elaborate process - the buy-in, the roll-out. "It's not as simple as turning on an account," says Jaime

Yesterday we told you how Google Docs is inching closer to being the mythical "Gdrive." Today Google announced that users can now buy up to 16 terabytes of storage

There are any number of ways to look at cloud computing. Three infographics illustrate how differentt the subject is viewed. The works demonstrate the diversity of the communities interested

Today Rackspace announced that it plans to bring both public cloud services and VMWare-based private cloud to the U.K. by the end of 2010. Rackspace isn't shy about its model

Engine Yard is moving well beyond its roots. On August 23rd, the company signed an agreement to acquire Orchestra to add PHP to its Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings. Now it's announcing

Cloudera, one of the primary contributors to Apache Hadoop, has released a new version Hadoop distribution: Cloudera's Distribution including Apache Hadoop v3 (CDH3). The new version contains over 1,000

The Success Factors acquisition of YouCalc shows the shift that is happening in the enterprise workspace. It's not just the analyst who uses business intelligence applications. More so, it's the

One of the most commonly cited obstacles to cloud adoption in the enterprise is a concern about security and about a lack of granular controls. To address this, self-service cloud

The deep complexities of managing a cloud infrastructure for the enterprise are only just beginning to emerge. Today we are at Gluecon, talking with three companies about managing that complexity

Symform is an online data protection and disaster recovery service who have been around for a few years, using a rather unique storage method. They start with having no data

Amazon Web Services announced several updates to its Virtual Private Cloud service today. The VPC service lets customers create a slice of private, isolated space within the AWS cloud

Cloud storage provider Box.net is moving to expand its reach beyond simple file sharing with a series of investments, partnerships and software extensions called the Box Innovation Network. They plan

Cisco's history at building brands around consumer-grade devices and services has been not only less than stellar, but a bit below mediocre. It failed to make the most of the

Heroku is a platform that offers an effective join of the best parts of scaling cloud infrastructure with simple but great tools for immediately provisioning Ruby applications. Last week, at

The need for innovation in the enterprise does not stop when the economy turns sour. Instead, what we often see is that constraints will invariably lead to creative thinking, which

At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, the analyst firm rolled out its top 10 strategic technologies for 2012 this week. It should come as no surprise that cloud is one

The urgent push to move the whole of Internet addresses off of a system never intended to replace telephone, television, and computing simultaneously, and onto the IPv6 address system, is

Drupal software, support, and hosting company Acquia announced that its Drupal Gardens leaves private beta today. Drupal Gardens is a content management & social publishing system, offering "Drupal-as-a-service" and greatly

OpenStack will come out with its first release tomorrow. We'll have a post up later all about it. From where we sit, the OpenStack seems important enough. Really, how else