Cloud Computing

Amazon’s next targets: Microsoft Exchange and Gmail

Amazon debuts WorkMail, cloud-hosted email for business, but its cloud still draws more attention than its desktop enterprise offerings

Win with APIs by keeping it simple

Complexity usually means failure, so let your APIs be models of simplicity

Review: Appery.io pairs mobile app builder with back-end services

The Appery.io online mobile development platform crosses categories, but support for native apps and offline operation are lacking

Dropbox buys Pixelapse to add version control for visual designers

GitHub-like version control startup Pixelapse adds another arrow to Dropbox's competitive quiver.

Microsoft results buoyed by cloud products, but profit drops

The company's commercial cloud revenue more than doubled, but consumer software sales took a hit in Asia/Pacific

Shadow IT comes out of the shadows — and back into IT

The cloud enabled shadow IT, but changes in IT management have helped IT gain ownership of the cloud

Hortonworks’ Hadoop now launches from Google Cloud Platform

Support for Hadoop includes the HDP distribution and connections to Google's other data-crunching services

Windows 10 and the mystery of the missing cloud

Azure, one of the strongest cards in Microsoft's hand, was absent from the Windows 10 preview event

One container technology does not fit all enterprises

This application-portability technology is hot for good reason, but its benefits aren't universal or guaranteed

10 things you should worry about in 2015