IBM buys IaaS firm SoftLayer; Salesforce.com scoops up email marketing firm ExactTarget
Amazon reportedly won a $600M contract in March to build a cloud for the CIA; now IBM is trying to stop it
Hadoop's 2.0 release includes Yarn, a workload manager that could make it much easier to build and run apps on the open source big data platform
Rise of hybrid clouds and software-defined networking creates needs to better control network traffic
Providers looking to tap into emerging markets, offer customers ways to store data in their home countries
As providers jockey for position, end users are the real winners
Forrester cloud expert says many times IT isn't aware that public cloud resources are accessing information behind the company's firewall, leading to potential security and performance issues
Rumors of a shakeup at Dell from last week have been confirmed
VMware plans to launch a public cloud to compete with Amazon, but some question what real value it brings to customers, and what it will mean for the company's partners
Move points to increased competition and maturation of Microsoft's cloud
