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 ...

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 ...

We believe that customers will be best able to enjoy the full benefits of cloud computing with solutions that are based on open standards and that are highly compatible. Red Hat's leadership position ...

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 ...

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 ...

This week I’m at Cloud Expo, where I suspect I’ll see and hear the world “open” a lot. This is not only a cloud issue — in much of the software world, “open” is becoming almost a religious belief.

Cloud computing: you may have heard of it. It seems to be everywhere these days, and if you believe the hype, there's a near-unanimous consensus that it's the future. Actually, a few of us have our ...

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 ...

There's quite a ruckus over a "open cloud computing manifesto." The gist: The document is scheduled to be published Monday and is designed to lay out principles for cloud interoperability. 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 ...