Cloud Computing

There's a new player in the already crowded cloud storage market. UK-telecoms provider Virgin Media has announced the launch of Virgin Media Cloud. The platform promises a, "safe and easy way to sync store and share your files."

Following Microsoft's recent relaunch of SkyDrive as OneDrive, there is a little more parity and competition at the top of the cloud storage market. How do the options stack up against each other though? This article provides a comparison of the main players.

IBM’s cognitive supercomputer Watson will be available to more end users than before, with an announcement today that puts Watson in the cloud. Through an API, application developers can access Watson’s skill at distilling big data into human meaning.

Connected Data has launched the Transporter Sync, a device that turns ordinary external hard-drives into private cloud storage. Users can access their documents, photos, videos and music from computers on their home network, online or via Android, iPhone and iPad apps.

Space Monkey hopes to take the cloud out of the data center and put it in your home.

Adobe is done with retail: it announced that it's going all in on its subscription offering.

Rapyuta: The RoboEarth Cloud Engine allows robots to perform complex data processing in the cloud.

JamHub has announced BandLab at NAMM – the first cloud-based digital audio workstation.

Researchers in China are aiming to take the operating system (OS) to the cloud with TransOS, a cross-platform, cloud-based OS.

Google's Nexus Q is an Android-based media streamer that draws all its content from the cloud.

Google and Samsung have expanded the Chrome OS family of devices with the introduction of the first desktop computer based on Google's cloud-based OS.

LG has launched the P Series, its latest line of cloud monitors.