Cloud Computing

How to Close Your Next IT Outsourcing Deal: Handshake vs. Contract

Facebook rethinks its ‘hackathons’ with an eye toward mobile

The event's longer structure could facilitate more careful mobile product development, one engineer said

Companies explore self-detonating data as security control

Self-detonating data would put expiration dates on sensitive documents

Cloud SLAs ‘fall short,’ says user advocacy group

Service level agreements can be cumbersome and skewed in the provider’s favor.

Airpair plays digital matchmaker between startups, developer experts

The service aims to pair entrepreneurs with outside developers to help them work through tech issues

Facebook revenue rises 38% amid continued mobile growth

The results show 'a lot of progress in the first few months of the year,' said CEO Mark Zuckerberg

Benchmarking Amazon EC2: The wacky world of cloud performance

Amazon Web Services launches new certification program

Solutions architects are the first to get certified

Facebook’s big data plans include warehouses, faster analytics

An engineer reveals during an industry conference how the site is working to make its backend data processing more efficient

10gen expands MongoDB with storage service

10gen offers to keep backup copies of MongoDB deployments