Barclays Capital analyst Tim Luke says microprocessor revenue was down 53.6% in October compared to September and 40.1% less than the industry average in October for the last 10 years. They were down 23% year-over-year and up 2.1% quarter-over-quarter. Units were down 40% MoM and...

Zoho, the prolific Microsoft wannabe that has already proven it can knock off a web app at the drop of a buzzword, is branching out into middleware. It’s come up with some widgetry – aimed at developers this time, not end users – called CloudSQL that’s supposed to let peo...

The other day, HP, the industry's resident smarty pants, let drop that starting this fiscal year – which is now, oh, five or six weeks old – it will save a billion dollars a year on IT compared to 2005 – although it's added upwards of $25 billion in revenue since then. COO ...

In most discussions about scalability, we often approach the topic as a pure technical/architecture challenge, and ignore cost issues. The problem is that when we truly scale our application, and want to benefit from economies of scale, we're going to end up with scale limitation...

As described in Part One of this series, the cloud is not the answer for every enterprise or every workload. This is true based on the current economics even without considering additional factors like security, control and SLA's. On the other hand the economics do point out a ma...

"This is the premier social graph fully integrating with the premier enterprise cloud computing company - this is the true power of Internet," gushed Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com, as he today launched a new offering called Force.com for Facebook – designed t...