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What’s the best way to put the kibosh on your competitor’s latest key cloud release? Make a statement loaded with braggadocio yourself, as Amazon has done by announcing that two trillion (2 x 10¹²) objects are now stored on its S3 cloud – a turnaround of 1.1m requests per second.

Microsoft has stepped up its cloud push by releasing Windows Azure Infrastructure Services this week, and pricing it in direct competition with Amazon Web Services (AWS). “Our announcement today is a significant step in our cloud computing strategy, which has been influenced directly by our discussions with customers and partners around the world,” wrote Bill Hilf, general manager of Windows Azure.

You don't have to be an IT expert, but knowing the key cloud attributes can make selling a migration to the cloud an easy business decision to make.

The convergence of four IT forces – cloud, social, mobile and information – has formed what analyst house Gartner has described as a new “Nexus of Forces” which will become the paradigm for the future of IT.

There are so many cloud storage services vying for your business that it can be seriously tough to decide on which is best.

Why are companies still making costly mistakes when it comes to implementing their cloud strategy? Marcie Terman highlights, once and for all, the six most important areas of risk to consider when making such a major step.

US case against Megaupload takes another blow this week as celebrities and industry leaders line up to lend their support.

As the Google I/O conference gets underway in San Francisco, a Google-backed start-up has launched a cloud solution which aims to eradicate vendor lock-in.