Amazon's former cloud sales chief is being sued by the retail giant over his move to Google. Why? Because Google's cloud poses one of the greatest threats to Amazon Web Services.

Companies need to plan for data return, service level agreements and exit strategies before signing a SaaS contract.

As part of Red Hat's efforts to expand the usage of GlusterFS and grow the Gluster community globally, they created workshops for community members to learn more about GlusterFS, and the LinuxCon Europe workshop is shaping up to be the best one yet - by far.

As the transition to the cloud and Big Data continue, open source software is playing an absolutely critical role. And now, Rackspace Hosting, which has been focused on OpenStack-based cloud computing, has announced a strategic agreement with Hortonworks, which provides Apache Hadoop development, support and training, to empower customers with an enterprise-ready Hadoop platform targeted to be easy to use in the cloud.