Amazon takes on MySQL with Aurora
After nine months of testing, Amazon Web Services is now offering its Aurora database as a full commercial service, positioning it as a high-performance alternative to the widely used open source MySQL database.
Stories by Joab Jackson
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IBM launches its data warehouse service into the Cloud
Jumping into an increasingly competitive market, IBM has launched a cloud-based data warehouse service, which the company says offers a way for enterprises to analyze their operations while bypassing most of the headaches that come with running such a system in-house.
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Amazon posts a profit as AWS sales nearly double
Cloud services continue to grow by leaps and bounds for Amazon.com.
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Blackberry delves deeper into security with AtHoc purchase
BlackBerry continues to shift its focus from selling mobile phones to securing them -- as well as other portable devices, and increasingly connected items that are part of the Internet of things.
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IBM moves open source business software to the cloud
IBM has set up a new code repository that aims to foster collaborative development of enterprise open source software -- and it may also drum up interest in its own Bluemix platform services.
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Five arrested in JPMorgan US hacking case
U.S law enforcement officials have arrested five individuals who reportedly were involved in the high-profile 2014 computer hacking of JPMorgan.
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Google releases a cloud manager ready for the enterprise
Now enterprise administrators can catch a bit of the magic that Google seemingly uses to smoothly run large Web scale applications. The company has released a production-ready version its Kubernetes software that manages virtual containers.
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New industry group to bring web-scale tech to the enterprise
Some of the biggest names in IT and online services have banded together to standardize the way applications are run in the cloud.
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Microsoft Visual Studio understands a world beyond Windows
Once devoted chiefly to developing desktop and server Windows applications, the Microsoft Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) is increasingly resembling a Swiss Army Knife, able to support myriad computing platforms, languages and runtime environments.
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CoolaData offers behavorial analytics as a cloud service
Want to harness the power of business intelligence but don't have a six-figure budget to build a data warehouse? Why not try a cloud service instead?
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WPC 2015: Microsoft rallies partners around Cloud, mobile, Windows 10
Following what has become a tradition for Microsoft's Worldwide Partners Conference, chief operating officer Kevin Turner did some old-fashioned fiery preaching in his closing keynote, this year condemning cloud-service competitors like Google for not respecting customers' privacy as they chase profits.
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday says goodbye to Windows Server 2003
With this month's Patch Tuesday round of security fixes, Microsoft has ended its support for the Windows Server 2003 operating system.
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CA Technologies embraces devops with updated tools
Like the farmer and the cowman, the administrator and developer can work together, even if they labor in separate departments.
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IBM introduces Watson to Africa and the Middle East
With the help from the city of Abu Dhabi, IBM will offer its Watson-based data analysis services to the Middle East and North Africa.
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WPC 2015: Microsoft's Cortana Analytics aims to democratise Big Data
Microsoft has fused a number of its new data processing technologies into a single package designed to help organizations get more value from their growing piles of data.
