Joe Panettieri

Without mentioning HP, IBM and Oracle by name, Amazon Web Services Senior VP Andy Jassy found a creative way to attack those three companies and their big on-premises profit margins.

Amazon Web Services launched the Redshift data warehousing service and cut pricing for the Simple Storage Service (S3) by 25 percent today. It was the 24th price cut for Amazon's cloud today. Senior VP Andy Jassy at AWS re:Invent conference offered cloud computing updates that involve public cloud, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and more.

IBM Docs, a potential Google Apps and Office 365 rival, may launch as a cloud business productivity service in December 2012.

Countering Amazon Web Services, Google cut cloud storage pricing 20%, expanded Google Compute Engine, and launched new cloud services in European datacenters.

During the HP Discover 2012 conference (Dec. 4-6, Germany), Senior VP Biri Singh will rally partners and customers to embrace HP Public Cloud Services and the HP Converged Cloud strategy. But will the message be heard over HP Autonomy questions?

It's time for Intel to get serious about Intel Hybrid Cloud. For 2013, Intel should either make a serious hybrid cloud partner program push or rethink the strategy entirely. Here's why.

Eucalyptus 3.2, the private and hybrid cloud platform, has launched with enhanced cloud management capabilities and continued support for Amazon Web Services APIs.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos at AWS re:Invent should explain potential synergies between Kindle tablets and Amazon Web Services for cloud storage, cloud compute and more.

Amazon.com's (NASDAQ: AMZN) first-ever AWS re:Invent conference (for cloud computing customers and partners) will attract 5,500 attendees, including cloud partner program leaders from Avnet Technology Solutions, Boundary, CoreSite, JHC Technology, NetApp and Trend Micro. Here's what VARs, MSPs and CSPs should expect.

Even before Q3 2013 results surfaced, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and his team were talking up AppExchange partner momentum during New York and Silicon Valley conferences.

HP CloudSystem is the industry's first complete integrated and open cloud platform that enables customers to build and manage technology services across traditional, private, managed and public cloud environments, CEO Meg Whitman said during a Q4 2012 earnings call.

How are HP Cloud Services performing so far? Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman has to provide updates during the company's Q4 2012 earnings call on Nov. 2. Here's why.

Portions of Apple iCloud went offline in recent days. But what if channel partners could have proactively noted the issue for customers?

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos will address cloud services partners during AWS re:Invent, the first Amazon Web Services global customer and partner conference. Here's a preview.

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