A set of principles promoting cloud computing interoperability was sharply criticized by a Microsoft Corp. executive just days before its …
Cloud Security Alliance formed to promote best practices
A group calling itself the Cloud Security Alliance announced its formation Tuesday, with eBay and ING as founding members. The …
Author of ‘cloud manifesto’ surprised by Microsoft protest
Microsoft Corp.'s sharp criticism of an “open cloud manifesto” surprised drafters of the document, who plan to release it to …
Latest cloud storage hiccups prompts data security questions
The pitch from providers of hosted storage services sounds enticing. Instead of what these providers call the inherent risks in …
Sun challenges Amazon for cloud dominance
Moveover, Amazon. The leading provider of cloud services is about to get some serious competition from Sun Microsystems, which made …
Sun challenges Amazon for cloud dominance
Move over, Amazon. The leading provider of cloud services is about to get some serious competition from Sun Microsystems, which …
Major shift to cloud IT services inevitable, IDC says
IT infrastructure and services delivered over the cloud will be ubiquitous within five years, and vendors that ignore the shift …
Cisco enters server market with Unified Computing System
It's not a blade server – it's an architecture. Cisco stressed the holistic approach of its Unified Computing System during …
SAP, IBM to showcase tech for cloud mobility
IBM and SAP will showcase technology that automatically balances the workload from an SAP application across multiple remote servers, during …
Storm clouds ahead
Cloud computing, which refers primarily to an on-demand service delivery model that may span both outsourced and premises-based platforms, is …
Cloud security fears are overblown: experts
It may sound like heresy to say it, but it's possible to worry a little too much about security in …
Cloud security fears are overblown, some say
It may sound like heresy to say it, but it's possible to worry a little too much about security in …
Loving the cloud
Back in 1991, before the Internet was a big deal, Ohio State University technologist Jerry Martin signalled the nascent Internet's …
IBM floats software in Amazon’s cloud
IBM is delivering some of its infrastructure software as an on-demand service through Amazon Web Services, the companies said, helping …
IBM, Juniper join in cloud strategy
Using cloud management software from IBM's Tivoli division and a Juniper network, the companies demonstrated a drag-and-drop interface for managing …
The cloud-SOA connection
Cloud computing may have overtaken SOA as the trendy technology term du jour, but the two concepts can be paired …
IBM, Juniper join in cloud strategy
IBM and Juniper on Monday provided a sneak peek at technology that lets enterprise IT managers easily reallocate computing resources …
Mixing green flavor in high performance computing
The supercomputing world is one of giant government labs, big machines and speeds measured in hundreds of trillions of calculations …
3Tera brings Windows to its cloud
3Tera has added support for Windows applications and appliances to version 2.4 of its cloud-computing platform AppLogic, the company announced …
What if my storage cloud turns stormy?
Services that store enterprise data in a “cloud” on the Internet raise questions that organizations are just beginning to ask, …