Steve Ballmer famously shouted "Developers, developers, developers," as he extolled the value of the Microsoft platform. Without third-party developers building applications on its tools, Microsoft ...

Rackspace and NASA have paired to deliver an open-source cloud computing platform, dubbed OpenStack, and cloud providers and partners are pumped for the possibility of more open cloud computing and ...

Agility, flexibility and customization. They’re the “big three” buzzwords companies cite to justify their investments in cloud computing. But while today’s leading cloud players have the best ...

Modeled after the open source initiative to find balance between proprietary and free software, the Open Cloud Initiative comprises a board of directors culled from a host of cloud trailblazers to ...

A group of companies and organizations have published a document that they call the Open Cloud Manifesto. It aims to provide an outline of core principles that are intended to boost interoperability ...

The years-long friction between the open source camp and cloud computing platforms still lingers, a recent report reveals. The friction is caused by cloud vendors using open source software as the ...

Sun Microsystem's Sun Cloud Compute Service may be a very well-conceived open cloud service, but would an IBM acquisition let it execute? James Urquhart is a field technologist with almost 20 years of ...

They’re constantly competing for government dollars, scrambling for political appeal and battling it out for executive interest. But this isn’t your typical no-holds-barred lobby war. Rather, the ...