"Hosted" news, interviews, and features

News about Hosted

• Snowflake Computing opens data warehouse to the masses

  General availability of the cloud computing service comes alongside a $45 million funding round

• The Open Data Platform: 'We are not ganging up on Cloudera'

  Vendors and distributors are committing to developing on the same version of Hadoop so customers can get the most from apps

• IBM plugs OpenPower servers into SoftLayer cloud

  It's trying to prime the pump for Power-based cloud computing services

• NTT buys Germany's biggest datacentre provider for $US840 million

  The deal will make NTT the third-largest data center operator in Europe

• French newspapers go offline, but hosting company rules out DDoS as cause

  Early speculation that jihadists were responsible for the outages seem less likely as the hosting company rules out a DDoS attack

• HP's BYOD service protects mobile devices and PCs

  HP Touchpoint Manager is for SMBs, with plans starting at $2 per month

Features about Hosted

• Cloud drives speech recognition forward for Microsoft

  Microsoft says that it can rapidly improve the technology by using the cloud to learn about how people use voice recognition