Neowin News Feed for: Cloud computing

Above us only sky... Microsoft tells us about its roofless datacenters

Christopher White — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 19:34:27 +0100

One of the interesting tidbits we heard this week was the fact that Microsoft has been building datacenters in parking lots. Even more interesting? They don't put a roof on the datacenter. Read more...

More details on how the Xbox One will use cloud computing

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 24 May 2013 11:13:23 +0100

Microsoft said that the new Xbox One console will be able to use cloud computing for intensive tasks and we finally have more info on how this will actually work and what it means for users. Read more...

Microsoft Management Summit: desktop, datacenter, and cloud

Christopher White — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 02:22:17 +0100

What does Microsoft have planned for the enterprise environment? We'll be traveling to Las Vegas next week to talk with company leaders to find out their vision for the corporate world. Read more...

Dropbox to bring document preview options in coming months

Paul Ferson — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 09:01:12 +0000

Dropbox is to bring some big changes in coming months, with a greater emphasis on image sharing and file previews. Gone are the days of structured folders; the future seems to be document previews! Read more...

Oracle OpenWorld: Oracle and Infosys Keynote

Christopher White — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 22:39:45 +0100

Join us at 2:45pm PT (5:45pm ET) for a liveblog of Larry Ellison's keynote. He'll be joined by Infosys CEO S. D. Shibulal, and they will be discussing the cloud and built-in BI, social, and mobile. Read more...

Google granted patent for its “Cloud OS”

Alfonso Maruccia — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 21:45:52 +0100

The USPTO accepted Google's application for its network-based “operating system”, ie that Chrome OS that has been pretty unsuccessful thus far. Read more...

The Woz thinks the cloud computing trend will be "horrendous"

John Callaham — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 21:42:32 +0100

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak doesn't care too much for the current trend in cloud computing, telling an audience this week, "I think it's going to be horrendous." Read more...

Amazon offers details on last weekend's cloud server outage

John Callaham — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 04:33:07 +0100

Amazon has offered a detailed explanation on why its cloud servers went down for a number of hours this past weekend, which affected services such as Netflix and Instagram. Read more...

Nature's clouds prove more powerful than Amazon's

Christopher White — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 16:59:14 +0100

Heavy storms in north Virginia have knocked out power and disrupted access to Amazon's cloud. Is the cloud concept so unstable that a single storm can knock out access to Netflix, Instagram, and more? Read more...

HP Discover: Final wrap-up

Christopher White — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 14:35:29 +0100

HP Discover is over and, as expected, we had a heavy dose of Big Data, BYOD, and Cloud computing. Find out what our impressions were and what we learned from our time at the conference. Read more...

NVIDIA announces VGX cloud-based PC graphics solution

John Callaham — Thu, 17 May 2012 06:28:20 +0100

NVIDIA has announced its plans to launch VGX, a new cloud-based PC graphics technology that it claims will bring higher end graphics and software to low end PCs. Read more...

Greenpeace gets very public with protest of Microsoft

John Callaham — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 03:41:16 +0100

Greenpeace members placed an 800 square foot banner on the side of Amazon's office building in Seattle today to protest Amazon and Microsoft's energy policies for running cloud servers. Read more...

Amazon now powers 1% of North American internet

Stefano Elia — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:43:13 +0100

Amazon's cloud service is now said to power 1% of all internet traffic in North America, with a third of all users visiting an Amazon cloud site at least once a day. Read more...

Greenpeace blasts Microsoft and Apple over 'dirty' cloud energy

John Callaham — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:37:04 +0100

Greenpeace has issued a new report that is critical of Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and others for the types of energy used to power their various cloud server services. Read more...

Gartner: Personal cloud to become center of digital life by 2014

John Callaham — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:13:24 +0000

The research firm Gartner has predicted in a new paper that online personal cloud services will replace the PC as the center of a user's digital life by the year 2014. Read more...

HP plans to launch business-themed cloud server service

John Callaham — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:45:09 +0000

HP plans to launch a business-themed cloud server service in the near future that would compete with Microsoft's Windows Azure and Amazon Web Services with more personalized service. Read more...

HP Pathway to the Cloud road show announced

Christopher White — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 16:14:50 +0000

Do you want to learn how to implement cloud within your company's data center? If so, you might want to attend HP's free event that helps IT professionals learn more about this hot topic. Read more...

Microsoft: 14 million jobs to be made via cloud computing

John Callaham — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:10:15 +0000

In a new editorial and infographic, Microsoft tries to make the case that the cloud computing industry will generate nearly 14 million new jobs worldwide by the year 2015. Read more...

Microsoft could buy a company like Netflix in 2012, says IDC

John Callaham — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:40:45 +0000

A new report about the growth of cloud computing by IDC predicts that in 2012 Microsoft could buy a streaming content company, naming Netflx as a possible example. Read more...

Microsoft gives hints on future cloud-based Xbox 360 features

John Callaham — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:27:12 +0000

In a speech at a China-based game developer conference, a Microsoft rep hinted that more cloud-based features will be added to its Xbox 360 game console in the near future. Read more...