Red Hat recently announced “Cloud Foundations: edition one”, a complete package of tools required to build, run,manage,use or in short work with a private cloud. With that red-hat joined the growing number of vendors who have added  cloud-computing management software to their product lines. With Cloud Foundations, customers can avail the benefits of the cloud [...]

Microsoft made a major leap with the release of Office Web Apps, a cloud-based version of its Office software. Web Apps lets users to upload documents from their computer to Microsoft’s cloud-based Docs.com, and allows accessibility from any machine or device. Here the documents will also be stored in remote server instead of being stored [...]

Greenpeace recently released its “make IT green” report which predicts that cloud computing will increase the energy problems. It alleges that Cloud computing will consume nearly 2 trillion kilowatt hours of electricity a year by 2020. [Image Source: www.matternetwork.com] Greenpeace names Amazon, Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, Intel, and others in its report saying: With the growth [...]