Cloud computing isn’t a US only phenomenon. Thanks to large technology vendors launching major services, the use of cloud computing is growing around the world, including  Australia. One of the big changes coming to Australia’s cloud industry is National Broadbrand Network (NBN). This will provide the low latency of a fixed, high-speed network that has ...

If it took less time to get from your car to your favorite store in the mall on your last visit, you might have cloud computing to thank.  The crews of surveyors asking for a “few minutes of your time” to answer a some questions  that were once a fixture in shopping malls have almost disappeared. Why? ...

SolidFire, which provides solid-state-drives (SSD) for cloud providers announced the initial partner list for its technology. SolidFire and other SSD providers are seeing a significant increase in demand for their products due to the need for high performance I/O in heavily virtualized and cloud environments. The initial list of of vendors includes: Arista Networks Canonical ...

Amazon better watch out for the new sheriff in town. ProfitBricks claims that is can offer more powerful and cheaper instances to customers than Amazon Web Services can. What makes ProfitBricks different from its competitor is it has a different take on scale. Amazon has a massive scale-out architecture while ProfitBricks focuses on a vertical ...

Could you imagine watching a fashion show from a model’s perspective? You could pretend as though you were wearing the latest wedding dress designs by Oscar de la Renta as you watch the black lace at the bottom of the dress tickle the grey studded Jimmy Choos stomping down the catwalk, Rihanna booming in the ...

IT companies, including Oracle, Rackspace, CloudBees, Cloudsoft Corporation, Huawei, Red Hat, and Software AG have announced Cloud Application Management for Platforms (CAMP), which is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) management Application Programming Interface (API) specification. The development for industry standard is all set to be submitted to Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards ...

Last Thursday, Splunk Inc., a rising provider of software for real-time operational intelligence, announced it will be broadcasting the company’s third annual users’ conference, .conf2012, in a webcast starting today.  We’ll be covering the event this week, so be sure to check back regularly for updates. The conference kicked off yesterday and will go on ...

Dublin has become the technology homeland again, as we previously discussed how a lot of companies are looking to go back to their roots. Companies such as Baltimore, Euristix, Iona, Parthus, and SmartForce all started up in Ireland and these employees were later hired by large companies like Google and Facebook, spreading the Irish technology knowledge even further ...

Netflix is once again showing its passion for open source. The company has posted the code for its Eureka service that provides middle tier load balancing and failover on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Netflix actually uses a more sophisticated of the technology for its troubled video streaming service, which is hosted on AWS. According to ...

The CEO of platform-as-a-service (PaaS) pioneer Heroku,  Byron Sebastian left the building, folks. Sebastian, who also serves as executive vice president of platforms at Salesforce,  stepped down from his positions abruptly to pursue something a little more “hands on.” Sebastian joined the Heroku team as the CEO in July 2009, and led the company through its ...