Ahead in the Clouds

May 2014

• My 10 minutes with Google's datacentre VP

  Archana Venkatraman - Datacentre Editor 28 May 2014

At the Datacentres Europe 2014 conference in Monaco, I had a chance to speak to Google's datacentre VP Joe Kava. Here's what he said...

• No such thing as absolute freedom from vendor lock-in, even in open source, proves Red Hat

  Archana Venkatraman - Datacentre Editor 21 May 2014

When it was alleged that Red Hat won't support customers who use other versions of OpenStack cloud, its president Paul Cormier passionately shared the company's vision of open source but didn't ...

• Using cloud for test and development environments? Avoid this costly mistake

  Archana Venkatraman - Datacentre Editor 14 May 2014

Using cloud services for apps testing or software development is a common practice because of cloud's scalability and cost savings. But some users are not yielding the cost benefit. Why?

• AWS may be building a datacentre in Germany, but will the cloud data remain safe and private?

  Archana Venkatraman - Datacentre Editor 07 May 2014

As public cloud provider AWS is looking to expand its datacentre footprint in Europe in the post-Prism world, it may have picked Germany because of the stricter regulations around data sovereignty. ...