Cloud Computing

Navy CIO: Use the cloud, but be careful

Navy CIO directs department to use the public cloud, but not for the sensitive stuff

Facebook, Pandora and Twitter seize mobile ad display market

An IDC study finds that major publishers have wrested mobile display ads away from advertising networks

Bitcoin’s price soars to over $200

The digital currency's value balloons as awareness about it grows globally and Europe's debt troubles deepen

EMC teams with Avaya (not Cisco) on communication pods

Is EMC/VMware partnership with Avaya a snub to Cisco?

Salesforce.com launches new services for mobile app development

Along with the tools, Salesforce.com is holding mobile application training events for partners and developers

Tata to acquire French IT services company Alti

The acquisition will help it grow in France and the rest of Europe

DHS shifts to cloud, agile development

Cloud tools abound. Is enterprise IT ready?

Service providers, start-ups, integrators and established vendors offer broad range of management tools. But enterprises might not be ready to implement complex orchestration and automation systems.

10 useful cloud tools

New tools help IT execs cut cloud costs, optimize resources, integrate and manage cloud instances

SAP’s effort to get startups on HANA bandwagon chugging along

More than 200 startups have joined a program SAP began last year to help startups build products leveraging the in-memory database