New survey results cast doubt on whether cloud computing adoption will ramp up in the next 12 months, with only …
IBM unveils new cloud offerings
The new product line, dubbed IBM Smart Business, focuses on delivering hosted tools and services for two tasks: virtual desktop …
BT unveils data centre cloud service
BT has announced its cloud computing service called Virtual Data Centre (VDC) at the Handelsblatt Telecommunications Market Europe conference in …
IBM rolls out new corporate cloud services plan
IBM rolled out a plan for providing cloud computing services to enterprises. The strategy aims to tie cloud services to …
Identity gets lost in the cloud
With everyone seemingly caught up in cloud computing, I was struck by this quote from a CNN story: Microsoft's “newest …
Tibco pushing new cloud application delivery system
Tibco is set to unveil Silver, a platform aimed at large enterprises that want to develop and deploy applications in …
Is the cloud reliable enough for your business?
In April of last year, Satoshi Nakajima, founder of Washington-based Big Canvas Inc., was eagerly inviting new customers to subscribe …
Send in the clouds
The focus of EMC World 2009 might have been the inevitability of cloud computing as “the next big thing” – …
E-mail, collaboration will drive move to cloud
Moving e-mail and collaboration applications to the cloud will drive the first wave of adoption of cloud computing in the …
Cloud-management wares multiply
When IT services are delivered via the cloud, compute and storage resources may be off-network or shared across multiple components, …
AT&T to foray into cloud storage services
AT&T will soon offer an on-demand storage service that will be accessible to enterprise customers through an Internet-based portal. The …
Juniper ships switch optimized for the cloud
Juniper Networks announced the availability of the EX8216 Ethernet switch, a 16-slot platform with a switch fabric capacity of 12.4 …
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 …
Microsoft to bring BI to the cloud
Microsoft Corp. will bring BI and analytic services to its Windows Azure cloud computing platform, though it is unlikely to …
Microsoft aligning management, clouds
Microsoft this week shared the latest on its ambitious cloud computing management, though customers and analysts say they still have …
Group proposes cloud management standard
The Distributed Management Task Force announced it had formed a group to tackle management and interoperability issues that will arise …
Is mobile computing the Achilles’ heel in your organization?
Mobile computing, from laptops to the myriad handheld devices such as smartphones, BlackBerries, iPhones, USB tokens and PDAs, can certainly …
VMware looks to bring data centers under the cloud
VMware Inc. last week launched the long-awaited upgrade of its core virtualization software, which it calls a cloud operating system. …
Sun moves on cloud despite uncertainty
Sun Microsystems, soon to be part of Oracle is a planned merger goes through, is proceeding with plans to ramp …
Cloud security stokes concerns at RSA
Cloud security has dominated discussions and drove the entire action at RSA Conference 2009. Throughout the event, attendees — who …