Cloud Computing

Hadoop goes to the cloud

Joyent and SkyTap join Amazon Web Services in offering cloud-based Hadoop clusters

Microsoft’s Azure-based video streaming service goes live

Enterprises can distribute video content to any device without building their own infrastructure for encoding and streaming

Red Hat folds ManageIQ purchase into cloud control stack

Red Hat views the recent ManageIQ acquisition as a key element in its hybrid cloud strategy

Tech salaries jump 5.3%, bonuses flat

Tech and engineering pros reported the largest salary jump in more than a decade, according to career site Dice

Startup takes aim at multi-hypervisor management

HotLink lets users manage Hyper-V, KVM, XenServer and other hypervisors all from VMware's vCenter management console

Mozilla launches two Firefox OS-based phones for developers

Shipping will start in February at low price points

IT’s 2013 resolutions: Faster app delivery, but less cloud

Doubt cast on the security of Kim Dotcom’s Mega service

Mega officials admit they're JavaScript 'newbies' but say Mega is no more vulnerable than online banking sites to an attack

Google sees one password ring to rule them all

Google researchers have proposed a USB key, or even a finger ring, to solve the problems with website passwords

Rackspace follows in Facebook’s footsteps, plans to build own servers

Standards emerging from the Open Compute Foundation allow big businesses to take hardware into their own hands