The idea that you could flick a switch for data-crunching was as futuristic at the time as humanoid robots or flying cars

EBS is operating normally for all APIs and has recovered EBS volumes

Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud experienced latency problems and other errors

The company has been willing to sacrifice some profitability to win customers and build its new businesses

Greenpeace unveils who’s behind the Internet’s dirty power

The new HP Enterprise Cloud Services for Microsoft Dynamics CRM offers Microsoft’s CRM software suite, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, as a cloud service

CyberMedia Research finds that India data centre services market will grow at a 23 per cent CAGR over the three years

Facebook partners with Advanced Micro Devices, Dell, HP and Intel to co-develop this technology

Companies failed to anticipate the impact of storage on virtualization cost

Mozy will help VMware in building hybrid cloud offering

Scheduled to launch in April, the centre will provide IBM’s comprehensive cloud services and technology portfolio via the company’s cloud delivery infrastructure

Dedicated harwares are Amazon EC2 hardwares launched within VPC that run servers dedicated to a single customer

Two new standards development projects, IEEE P2301 and IEEE P2302, have been approved

Apps supported by Google Cloud print currently include Gmail for Mobile, Google Docs for Mobile and Chrome OS, and will expand to include third-party apps.

Toyota is planning to set up a network based on Microsoft’s Azure ‘cloud computing’ platform by 2015

Cloud is now a core growth area for IBM expected to drive $7 billion in revenue by 2015 in hardware, software and services

In 2009, Gartner predicted that less than one-third of cloud investments would reach ROI by 2011

Is said to be the industry’s first open platform-as-a-service

Amazon launched the free digital locker Cloud Drive in March

Private cloud protects the business or margin structure built over the last 30 years by old-world IT players