Amazon's S3 (Simple Storage Service) started out the year plagued with widely publicized outages and provoked a significant dither in the blogosphere over the future of SaaS and cloud-based...

I don't know of many companies which don't work very hard to establish a sort of amicable brand identity with potential customers, and Google is no different. But there is a danger in taking...

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Nadezda Firsova Ever since Ballmer spilled the beans on the upcoming unveiling of Microsoft's "Cloud Operating System" scheduled to take place at this...

Quite a few interesting things happening even outside the gymnastics going on in the markets these days, but most of them I won't get to until sometime tomorrow. I did want to highlight...

I'm still not sure what they are doing in all of them, but IBM is aggressively expanding its portfolio of so-called "cloud computing centers" again, adding centers in Bangalore, Hanoi,...

Amazon and Oracle have announced that the popular enterprise database will now be available in pre-packed instances for Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). A variety of versions are available,...

I've been seeing a number of "day after" articles on Google's new Chrome web browser suggesting it is largely irrelevant and that the release is considerably overblown in terms of...

That's basically the reaction of the blogosphere today reacting to Google's announcement that they have developed and will be releasing (in beta form, keeping to Google tradition) a new,...

This may be old news, but I thought I'd put it out there, anyway: the first of what are sure to be many third-party services dedicated to monitoring various cloud computing services is being...

I don't know how I missed hearing that they applied for this back at the beginning of the month, but then I didn't realize that they own the domain cloudcomputing.com (note that they still...

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Quavondo Nguyen Every silver lining's got a touch of grey - The Grateful Dead Yesterday's Gmail outage, affecting both individual and Apps corporate customers,...

It looks as though Sun isn't the only big player with spare network capacity anxious to get in on the cloud computing hype. AT&T has announced, by way of a deal with the US Olympic Committee...

Sun's floundering utility computing initiative, Network.com, is being spun off into a separate business unit, reports the Register. The move seems likely to form the first step in an effort to...

IBM announced today that it will be investing more than $400 million on two new data centers dedicated to cloud computing purposes, one opening in their Research triangle Park facility in North...

© GreyHobbit In the wake of last week's outage at Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3), which left many customers hanging for more than six hours while internal "communications"...

EDIT: Looks like the server ate my post again. The original was a witty and brilliant riff on this CIO Magazine article attempting to explain cloud computing, wherein I demonstrated that it...

Amazon has posted a post-mortem analysis on last week's extended Simple Storage Service (S3) outage, if it matters. I suppose it's a good indication that the company is continuing its...

Predictably, yesterday's extended Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) outage has elicited a flurry of Monday morning responses from bloggers and media. The reactions range from the incensed to the...

The issue still hasn't been corrected as of this writing, but today's six-plus hour outage of Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) continues to cast doubts as to the suitability of not...

Red Hat is already intimately involved with Amazon's Electronic Computing Cloud (EC2) service, having offered red hat enterprise linux (RHEL) as a supported option for EC2 instances since...