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I’ve heard from a somewhat reliable source that Google is working on their Amazon EC2 competitor. Yes, some kind of on-demand virtual servers. I would have been the last person to guess that...

On June 23, 2010 we launched the commercial version of our CloudSwitch Enterprise software at Structure 2010 in San Francisco. We’re ready for business and making our innovative software...

Amazon continues to build out its cloud computing arsenal, this time signaling its intent by adding more platform as a service (Paas) functionality to Amazon Web Service (AWS). The company announced...

Not long ago Lawson Software CEO Harry Debes predicted the end of software as a service (SaaS) when he said the SaaS market would "collapse" in two years. Fast forward a couple years and the thinking...

Ubuntu has made great strides in its cloud computing strategy since it announced it would expand beyond its core offerings (OS, browser, office apps) in 2008. Today, the company claims over 7,000...

Marten Mickos, the former CEO of MySQL, has been named the new CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, an open source software cloud computing platform that enables the implementation of on-premise private and...

Today I’m going to tell you how much revenue Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is generating. After all, you, my regular readers, come to this blog for its insight, original thinking, and gems of...

Amazon has added yet another arrow to its quiver of cloud computing services and options with the launch of Amazon EC2 Spot Instances. The new purchasing option is smart for Amazon, as it provides a...

In late October Canonical, the commercial sponsor behind Ubuntu, released Ubuntu 9.1 Server Edition, which includes the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC). This was big news because it was another example...

Canonical has released Ubuntu 9.1 Server Edition, which includes the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC), putting cloud computing within the hands of enterprise customers with a simpler, faster way to...