If you want to host your Java application on the internet for free (!) and get automated scaling and management as a bonus – now is the time. Today we are officially opening Jelastic beta – all yo...

I’ve been recently involved helping a new European start-up just launched a new Platform-as-a-Service capable of running and automatically scaling any Java application. Here’s a quick write-up on...

Did you ever wonder how much it would cost to run your virtual infrastructure in the cloud? If not, your boss and the bean counters in finance probably have, and it's only a matter of time before they...

Docusign, the cloud-based electronic signature platform, today announced that is has processed more than a half billion pages of “contracts, agreements and other legally binding documents”, all as...

Innovative companies today engage prospects in the emerging “live web” of social media chats. These companies demonstrate how real-time, interactive conversations are essential for effective messa...

In January of this year, mobile travel management app TripIt was acquired for up to $120 million by Concur, a company founded in 1993 that provides integrated expense and travel management solutions....

A phrase that you often hear being thrown about by SEOs is “content is king”, Although this is (arguably) true, I think that in many cases this just leads to commercial webmasters blindly adding l...

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 hosting, agile development metho...

Ah, the poor 21st century sales professionals, if he/she is not getting it from their manager, they are being squeezed by what he thought was a “loyal” customer, wringing yet another concession...

The Internet of Things, when real world objects are connected to the Internet, is a trend that we’ve been actively tracking since early 2009. So far a lot of big technology infrastr...

Nginx creator Igor Sysoev is planning a company based around the wildly popular open-source web server. Sysoev announced the decision on the Ngnix blog Monday morning, writing that the commercial enti...

A recurring theme of mine is that Cloud Computing constitutes an opportunity for small and medium businesses to “punch above their weight”. For a multitude of reasons that we’ve been articulatin...

Last week, I took a much-needed break and spent a few days on the beach trying to reset my brain. And though I was only partially successful in doing so, I did manage to get rid of some detritus of th...

On Wednesday, IBM is expected to announce the third generation of its high-end, grid-based XIV Storage System, which offers improved performance for virtualized server environments, analytics, and clo...

Mention cloud computing to a mainframe professional, and he'll likely roll his eyes. Cloud is just a much-hyped new name for what mainframes have done for years, he'll say. "A mainframe is a cloud," c...

Even after a few of its leading virtualization and cloud gurus departed for other pastures, Citrix is still going full steam ahead with its open source cloud strategy and its plans to offer the market...

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is already consolidating.  Terremark, Savvis and NaviSite have merged into large Operators.  AWS, RackSpace and SoftLayerare growing and tuning their services to...

One of the most frequent questions I have been asked since the acquisition of Cloud.com by Citrix has been around the future plans for aligning the commercial CloudStack platform acquired from Cloud.c...

Two weeks on and the dust is still settling on Google+. Here on TNW we’ve dissected it every which way and continue to make observations as we use it more and more. Today I was preparing some work f...

As I watch the industry talk-track around cloud and IT-as-a-service slowly evolve, Im starting to get a bit ticked off. I think in many cases the various industry cloud pundits may be doing people a...