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Using a cloud computing service may sound enticing, but you better consider how that data can be moved around if you want to switch to a different provider. It's a

Online backup provider Mozy has added a new twist to their service called Data Shuttle: they will overnight you a 1.8 TB external hard drive, which you can use to

VMware surprised a lot of people this past week with the unveiling of Cloud Foundry. Shrouded in secrecy, the announcement left competitors a bit flat footed as they soaked in

Last week at Salesforce's Boston Cloudforce event, CEO Marc Benioff is moving on beyond the cloud and called it passé. Really?

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

We have two white papers to share this week that cover how virtualization can help optimize the enterprise and handle extreme workloads. Our first white paper explores how organizations

Salesforce.com has launched its Facebook tool kit. And Facebook has a job listing for an application developer who will develop, integrate and maintain Force.com applications for business and external use.

CloudCamp Tour India will feature five CloudCamp events over the next eight days, illustrating the the growth of the movement in one of the largest technology communities in the world.

There are a lot of reasons to adopt OpenStack, and the learning curve can be steep, based on 772 surveys gathered by Zenoss at the OpenStack Conference earlier this fall.

McKesson is a global health care leader that has 26 operating companies. The centrial IT group had the vision to automate "the last mile" of IT planning, the budget approval

Earlier this week, Opsource announced a partner program. The news came on Monday, the first day developers could download code from OpenStack, a separate initiative that has had considerable attention

A couple of weeks ago, we asked on ReadWriteCloud's weekly poll if you thought that Amazon S3's API should be considered as the standard for data storage. Almost 50% of

CIOs today are in the cross hairs of every major decision companies make. In order to be your CEO's most valuable asset, today's CIO's need to think like their CEO's.

Nginx is tearing up the charts and going big-time $3 million in a series A round. The company, which announced its intent to go commercial in August, is being backed

One of the themes many of us commentators harp on about is the fact that barriers to entry for application developers have never been lower - the availability of cloud

Big data and analytics have found their place in the sales cycle. In particular that part of the business known as maintenance and renewals. A method to aggregate and analyze

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

Yesterday's VMware announcements were all about the data center and the global cloud ecosystem. Today the announcements are more end-user focused. Today the company took the wraps off VMware View

In Cory Doctorow's young adult novel Little Brother, the protagonist starts a wireless ad-hoc network, called X-Net, in response to a government crack-down on civil liberties. The characters use

Is a cloud utopia possible? The idea being that someday everything will be elastic. Services scale up and down based on usage. You would never have to worry about updating

Today sees another acquisition with Teradata's plan to purchase Aprimo, the marketing automation software as a service (SaaS). Teradata acquired Aprimo as a way to add more analytics and

The biggest cloud network in the world is owned by the mob. While you may think that Google, Amazon and Microsoft are the world's largest cloud providers it's really the

A new survey from Cisco's consulting group has some surprising conclusions. They looked at 1000 business users this past spring to understand the interaction between their mobile devices and how

Today Red Hat announced two new services: CloudForms, a cloud management product for private and hybrid clouds and OpenShift, a multiple platform-as-a-service. CloudForms is now acceping beta sign-ups and

VMware is a virtualization company, right? Then why did it announce yesterday that it is buying SlideRocket, a services company that helps people make their presentations look all snappy?