June, 2012

‘Hipster’ clouds offer non-mainstream storage solutions

From FarmVille to VMville: Zynga ventures into IaaS?

Social gaming giant Zynga -- best known for flooding your Facebook notifications with requests to harvest Aunt Susan's Christmas-themed strawberries -- may soon become the competition. Although it doesn't cite any sources inside the company or elsewhere,

The cloud: A tax-free zone?

As the saying goes, taxes are one of life's few certainties -- but just how certainly will they be applied in an information-driven economy? If the state of Vermont's back-and-forth on a "cloud computing tax" is any indication, it seems the jury may still be out on the...