IBM said the company is looking to many of its existing tools, from the Tivoli management system to Cognos business …
HP sets $2B in financing to speed cloud adoption
On the big screen at its user conference in Las Vegas, Hewlett-Packard (HP) executives tried to make the practice of …
SMBs are forsaking the cloud: survey
The majority 60% of UK SMBs are focused on improving existing IT systems and processes in order to find efficiencies, …
Obama’s CTO eyes the cloud
The federal government is “bullish” on prospects for using cloud and mobile technologies, although perhaps not at the expense of …
Mainframe, meet cloud
Mainframes are stable, secure and under your control – perfect for anchoring a private cloud- but where’s user provisioning? Mention …
Gartner outlines contractual terms to reduce cloud risks
IT procurement or sourcing managers challenged with finding sourcing options that reduce costs at tolerable risks should examine nine contractual …
CIOs ready to embrace cloud: IBM
A new IBM study of more than 3,000 global CIOs shows that 60% of organisations are ready to embrace cloud …
Dell sees silver in the cloud
Dell is reporting some success in its struggle to retool itself as a cloud and enterprise services provider, even as …
McAfee secures the cloud
McAfee has announced the McAfee Cloud Security Platform to help organisations safely and efficiently take advantage of Cloud computing. The …
EMC’s Tucci sees hybrid cloud becoming de facto standard
As far as EMC CEO Joe Tucci is concerned, the future of his company is the hybrid cloud and big …
VMware’s Cloud Foundry suffers second outage
VMware’s attempt to recover from an outage in its brand-new cloud computing service inadvertently caused a second outage the next …
Red Hat pitches new cloud software
Microsoft and VMware are the enemies of interoperability, and only open source software can prevent cloud lock-in. That, at least, …
Riding the cloud
The Jumeirah Group has built a private cloud in a hybrid environment to connect disparate offices and improve efficiency. Home …
Public cloud to surge: Forrester
On the heels of the controversial Amazon EC2 cloud outage last week, research firm Forrester published a timely report on …
Half way to the cloud
A CNME-Citrix CIO roundtable in Kuwait reveals that the local market fears that virtualisation and cloud computing may have to …
Etisalat promotes mobility and cloud for better government
The Etisalat ICT Forum- Government 2011, focused on mobility and cloud computing as key developments in information technology that could …
Red Hat becomes cloud service provider
Red Hat officials never seem to stop talking about cloud computing, but until recently all the company’s efforts were targeted at …
Stepping out of the shadow into the cloud
Hewlett-Packard CEO Leo Apotheker took a step out of Mark Hurd’s shadow yesterday, unveiling a new cloud computing platform that …
Intel courts the cloud builders
In an office building near Portland, Oregon, in a room next to a massive bank of cubicles, hums one of …
Amazon wants to make it easier to build complex clouds
With the launch of CloudFormation, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is hoping to make it easier for enterprises to put together …