Cloud Foundry Launches PaaS Certification Program

Cloud Foundry Certification ensures the application and skill portability across any cloud service or software product that offers Cloud Foundry. Read more »

Facebook Quietly Testing Searchable Business-Referral Service

The social network now enables search of its own membership's commentary and personal pages to offer business referrals on a local and/or regional basis. Read more »

Microsoft Releases Office 365 Planner Preview

Office 365 customers can finally test Microsoft's vision of team and project management on the cloud. Read more »

VMware Backs Out of Virtustream Joint Venture Deal With EMC

The proposal to create a jointly owned cloud services business drew the ire of VMware investors worried it would further erode the company's stock. Read more »

Google Announces Beta of Second-Gen Managed MySQL Service

The updated service offers much better scalability and price/performance than its predecessor, Google claims. Read more »

Microsoft Accelerates Azure Backups

Optimizations slash the time it takes to upload backup data to Microsoft's cloud and reduce the service's cache storage penalty. Read more »

Elasticsearch Now Available on Microsoft Azure Marketplace

Elastic announced that its stack—including Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana—is now available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Read more »

WordPress 4.4 Includes Features for Images, Embedding, Extensibility

The WordPress 4.4 release includes a number of features that provide improved extensibility for content. Images are also getting more responsive. Read more »

Microsoft Announces Linux on Azure Certification

When it comes to the cloud, the software giant extends its embrace of Linux to include a new certification for budding cloud administrators. Read more »

IBM Nabs Giant Eagle Cloud Migration Deal

IBM can now count Giant Eagle among its growing list of cloud customers, as Big Blue works to overhaul the supermarket chain's IT operations. Read more »