New and upcoming tech IPOs

Startups that went public in 2017 had mixed results. Consumer tech companies such as Snap and Blue Apron had some difficulties with their initial public offerings (IPOs), but enterprise companies such as big data specialist Cloudera performed... Read more »

15 things we learned during Facebook’s 2017 F8 conference

Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to the stage at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose this week at a difficult time for the company. The world is... Read more »

Meet the SearchCloudComputing Advisory Board

To help stay on top of the cloud market and emerging IT models, SearchCloudComputing has formed an Advisory Board that consists of both cloud computing experts and users.

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New Google cloud VP hire could signal open-source embrace

A former Red Hat executive has apparently taken the reins of Google Cloud Platform, in a move that could signal a bigger embrace of the open-source community by the cloud provider. Brian... Read more »

Federal court ruling on data localization could have major impacts on the cloud

A federal court ruling on the government’s access to data stored offshore by U.S.-based companies could have far-reaching impacts on the cloud market. A federal district judge in New York ruled this... Read more »

Getting to the bottom of the Red Hat OpenStack support kerfuffle

Red Hat initially drew ire from many at OpenStack Summit following a report about its support for RHEL on OpenStack, but it turned out there was more to the story.

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IBM launches advertising blitz against AWS at re:Invent

LAS VEGAS — Advertisements are popping up along the Las Vegas strip this week that challenge Amazon Web Services’ position in the cloud market — and the perpetrator is competitor IBM. As... Read more »

HyTrust snaps up encryption firm HighCloud

HyTrust will add encryption to its cloud security software following its acquisition of HighCloud Security this week. HyTrust Inc. already enforces access controls at the management layer of virtual environment so that... Read more »