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This week's round-up includes the OpenStack enterprise readiness debate, Shuttleworth's decision to stick with MySQL and more.

You probably think a Managed Service Provider business has little in common with a streaming media service like Netflix, but you might be surprised what you could learn from Netflix and how it runs its IT department.

This week includes posts on cloud jobs growth, the NSA's impact on the US cloud market and the rise of the cloud brokers.

This week, I look at 5 cloud computing myths, moving from the cloud to the fog (a new term to wrap your heads around) and Netflix's cloud-connected recommendation engine.

There is a two-pronged battle raging for the soul of the cloud. The first involves the cloud infrastructure players and the second, the controllers of the pipes, and how this battle resolves itself could have a profound impact on your business as you move more of your infrastructure to the cloud.

This week, we look at Data as a Service taking off, universal OpenStack certification and top OpenStack vendors jockeying for position.

IDC reported that smartphone shipments to the Asia/Pacific region dropped last quarter for the first time in over two years, proving that no market has unlimited growth, even China. But as the Asian markets evolve it could complicate matters for manufacturers looking for growth opportunities, and this could be especially difficult for Apple.

Last week Google and VMware made a deal to run Windows software in a Desktop as a Service scenario on Google Chromebooks, a move which could make the devices more palatable to cloud-averse IT executives.

Microsoft's new CEO has to know that to succeed, he has to find a way to expand his company's mobile marketshare, but the latest numbers from IDC show an entrenched market with very little room for anyone beyond Android and iOS.

This week, we look at whether OpenStack should embrace AWS or run away from it, how RackSpace has gone all in on open source and how quickly OpenStack has grown up.

A recent survey by Gartner of CIOs found that only 25 percent of respondents were seriously invested in the cloud. Something tells me, they might have asked the wrong people.

Google made Android open source so it would grow quickly, but it has to live with the real possibility that as open source software, they might not be able to control it forever.

Turkey is the latest country to slap heavy restrictions on the internet, a move that is baffling for a country that hopes to be a high tech center. But you can't try to control the masses and have a healthy business climate, and Turkey has to decide if it wants a strong internet-driven economy or control because it can't have both.

This week, we look at ways Google Cloud could freak out AWS, Chromebook tips and proving PaaS naysayers

Of course you need security, but when you make it too hard, security gets in the way of productivity and that's not really a great trade-off.

This week, women in OpenStack, ways OpenStack growth mirrors Linux and making OpenStack involvement mean more than coding.

Apple, Google and Microsoft have been having a struggle for dominance for years, but they have reached the point where everyone wants a piece of their action. While they aren't imminent danger of losing their position, they have a lot of upstarts nipping at their heels. As Cold Play once sang, "Revolutionaries wait for their heads on a silver plate."

Google has reportedly vowed to form an ethics commission to help monitor artificial intelligence research after its purchase of Deep Mind. Forgive me for laughing, but a Google ethics commission is like jump shrimp. Which of these things is not like the other?

This week, we explore why companies still suffer anti-cloud delusions, Google's blueprint for responding to a cloud outage and why the cloud battle is over and the cloud won.

Open source offers organizations all kinds of benefits, but when you combine it with open standards, you create a free software and interoperability juggernaut that businesses are going to love.