platform as a service (PaaS)

Inside the enterprise: A study by Forrester finds that the drive for cloud computing continues to come from lines of business, not IT.

Storage and virtualisation giants to pool staff and resources for big data, cloud and mobile push, overseen by Paul Maritz.

Vendor introduces new partnerships.

Enhances capabilities for deploying Java in the cloud.

Ellison U-turn complete as gloves come off in fight against Salesforce.com et al.

Inside the enterprise: Big guns taking the cloud seriously is good for larger businesses.

One-size-fits-all cloud deals should be replaced, say academics.

More than two-thirds of IT departments fail to understand applications' demands on the network.

Along with breaking the billion barrier in revenues, the firm reveals it will be bringing SLAs to its Platform as a Service offering.

Big Blue's SmartCloud Foundation just got bigger, with IBM announcing new software offerings at its Pulse event in Las Vegas.

The G-Cloud gets its first customer from within the Department for Transport.

The acquisition of SeaMicro will give the chip manufacturer a clear entrance into the cloud.

Most companies have lots of concerns about the move to the cloud. Here's your chance to ask the questions that have been bugging you.

The UK is no way near getting Government targets on superfast broadband, according to a uSwitch report, but BT thinks the research is rubbish.

Huddle's CEO admits there's a risk Government departments will punt for traditional vendors when faced with the plethora of services on CloudStore.

The Government's CloudStore is now open for business, a move that will shake up public IT.

Despite early predictions of just 50, the director of the G-cloud reveals the number of services has rocketed since the tender.

The Redmond giant posts another set of mixed results, with Windows continuing to disappoint.

Amazon has launched a non-relational database aimed at tasks requiring massive scalability

G-Cloud isn't too popular amongst local authorities right now, but the project's momentum could galvanise excitement later this year.

The US Government’s ex-CIO and leader of the ‘Cloud First’ initiative joins Salesforce as EVP of emerging markets.

Diane B.Greene strengthens her position in Silicon Valley by joining Google’s board of directors.

Larry Ellison’s firm incorporates Cloudera’s distribution of the Apache platform into its own appliance, aimed at analysing Big Data.

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