Vertica moves BI database to Amazon's cloud

Database maker Vertica Systems is moving its technology to Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud infrastructure (EC2), hoping to score customers who want a hosted, pay-as-you-go model for data warehousing and BI (business intelligence), the company announced Monday. ...continue reading 'Vertica moves BI database to Amazon's cloud'

Amazon Web Services has another outage

Amazon's cloud computing service was down on Monday morning for more than an hour, following an outage on its hosted storage service two months ago. ...continue reading 'Amazon Web Services has another outage'

IBM pushes cloud computing to universities

IBM on Wednesday said it was teaming up with two U.S. universities on initiatives that the company hopes will improve the self-healing and self-managing features of physical and virtual servers in a broad-scale computing environment. ...continue reading 'IBM pushes cloud computing to universities'

EMC plans to release online services software after Pi buy

EMC will roll out software for online services this year from its acquisition of Pi, aimed at boosting its cloud computing strategy, Pi CEO Paul Maritz said Tuesday. ...continue reading 'EMC plans to release online services software after Pi buy'

EMC buys Pi to round out cloud computing unit

Storage giant EMC continues to push into the consumer territory: Its latest move is to acquire Pi, a company whose software and services will help users keep track of their personal data. ...continue reading 'EMC buys Pi to round out cloud computing unit'

IBM and EU launch cloud computing initiative

IBM and the EU have launched a joint research initiative to develop new virtualization and grid technologies for cloud computing, which will enable the sharing of IT services. ...continue reading 'IBM and EU launch cloud computing initiative'