Amazon Web Services now offers online access to Windows servers, and Linux gets a reliability commitment. Also: new features coming in 2009. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Would you believe Microsoft has announced a new Linux distribution service for its Azure cloud service? You should. For many years, the most popular operating system on Azure has not been Windows ...

Stability, performance and adaptability are key attributes of Linux, which dominates cloud computing and supercomputing and is fundamental to IoT and containers. Now that 2024 has gotten off the ...

Today, Red Hat dominates enterprise Linux. Tomorrow, it wants to rule the cloud. Don't bet against it. Read now They have reason to remind IT leaders of this. A recent Linux Foundation study, 2021 ...

An updated edition of the March 5, 2025 article. Cloud computing refers to the on-demand, seamless access of computing resources as services over the Internet (“the cloud” per se). Cloud computing, ...

Amazon operates the largest cloud computing business with AWS. Microsoft Azure, meanwhile, has been gaining market share. Alphabet's Google Cloud has hit a profitability inflection point. One of the ...