The economic and social motivation for the cloud is high, the business need for speed and agility is like never …
Twitter/Google Apps hack raises questions about cloud security
Questions about cloud security and the feasibility of storing critical information in Web-based services are being raised in the wake …
Microsoft details Windows Azure pricing, availability
Microsoft revealed pricing and more details about how it will sell its Windows Azure cloud-computing infrastructure, making it free for …
Consumers in the Cloud
John Chunta had spent four and a half years writing his doctoral dissertation when, two weeks before its expected completion, …
Smartphone OS smackdown
Two and a half years ago, Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone and said that its software was five years …
Busting the nine myths of cloud computing
Wherever you turn, someone's ready to tell (or sell) you something related to cloud computing. Cutting through the myths is …
Platform Computing tackles tech-agnostic cloud management
Grid vendor Platform Computing has unveiled new private cloud software that aggregates servers, storage, networking tools and hypervisors to create …
5 cool cloud computing research projects
Next week's HotCloud conference on cloud computing in San Diego will boast a slew of fresh research into this hottest …
Cloud computing: Pros and cons
ON THE UPSIDE 1. Fast start-up “Cloud computing is really a no-brainer for any start-up because it allows you to …
Open source cloud platform is commercialized by its creators
The creators of Eucalyptus, an open source platform for building private clouds, have launched a company to sell products based …
VMware vows to overhaul data center with “cloud operating system”
VMware has unveiled vSphere, the long awaited overhaul of its core virtualization platform which is designed to aggregate the virtual …
Unified communications applications coming to the cloud
Expect more communications services from cloud-computing providers such as IBM's LotusLive Engage that becomes available tomorrow, according to makers of …
Start-up offers cloud storage for the enterprise
Start-up Zetta Inc. unveiled an enterprise-class, software-as-a-service storage business with an architecture built on proprietary systems and offering an all-inclusive …
SaaS vendor converts offering to packaged software
In the past few years a rush of software vendors have latched onto the software-as-a-service bandwagon, converting packaged software offerings …
Siemens launches cloud experiment at VoiceCon
Siemens is announcing at VoiceCon Orlando a unified-communications-in-the-cloud experiment with Amazon.com, which could result in services that avoid capital costs …
Cloud computing vendors converge on standard definition, goals
When “cloud computing” became the buzz-phrase du jour in IT sometime in the past year or two, you could probably …
Slacker databases break all the old rules
So you've got some data to store. In the past, the answer was simple: Hook up an official database, pour …
Managing Macs
Macs as desktops and servers are increasing their penetration in business, even in enterprises. Power users like Mac OS X's …
Three reasons Microsoft shouldn’t port Windows to the ARM processor
Microsoft Corp. is facing increasing pressure to bring its mainstream Windows operating system to the ARM mobile CPU. But analysts …
Best security questions to ask about SaaS
Security issues have to be clearly examined before diving into software as a service (SaaS), warns Burton Group analyst Eric …