Cloud computing remains one of the big topics in software this year despite considerable and ongoing concerns over lock-in, lack of control, and security. The siren song of ease-of-development, ...

As cloud computing, by many accounts, is poised to shake the very foundation of high-tech and IT, it's only fitting that the open-source community has taken notice, spawning a smattering of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Another light-touch cloud standards effort under the auspices of The Linux Foundation reached a milestone Wednesday, with the release of the 1.0 version of the Open Container Initiative. The Open ...

PALO ALTO, Calif. — Executives from Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Yahoo are calling for developers to create an open source software standard for cloud computing. They showed their work on the ...

As Amazon continues to build its new, helix-shaped headquarters nearby, the tech giant will begin offering free training later this month at a new facility in Crystal City, Virginia. The Amazon Web ...

Cloud computing: marketing buzzword or the future of the Web? CNET UK is kicking off cloud computing month, and here we take a look at the basics -- including the dangers lurking in the cloud ...