Cloud Computing

Wed, November 04, 2009 - The private cloud packages developed by Cisco and EMC could integrate with existing internal clouds.

Wed, November 04, 2009 - Companies need to explore a multitude of related cloud expenses to ensure that costs don't ultimately outweigh the technology's benefits. Chris Curran shares some key questions regarding architecture, process and flexibility.

Wed, November 04, 2009 - Microsoft celebrated its 20th year in Taiwan by agreeing to open a joint cloud computing center with the island's economics ministry.

Tue, November 03, 2009 - Hype is a marketer's dream and IT's nightmare. While it helps the former generate excitement, it often obscures reality for the latter. Cloud computing is the latest case in point. The hype would have you believe the cloud is the entire answer when in reality it is just part of the solution.

Tue, November 03, 2009 - Cisco, EMC and VMware today joined forces to sell products as a private cloud offering to enterprises. Called the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition, the announcement was called "unprecedented," something destined to lead to "greater IT infrastructure flexibility."

Tue, November 03, 2009 - Red Hat Tuesday made good on its promise to deliver a stand-alone hypervisor and a set of management tools as its gears up to go toe-to-toe with VMware and Microsoft to become a top-tier provider of virtualization and cloud computing infrastructure.

Tue, November 03, 2009 - Rackspace suffered another data center failure Tuesday that caused outages for its cloud computing customers, the third such incident since late June.

Tue, November 03, 2009 - Cisco and EMC this week unveiled their anticipated collaboration, which will provide integrated products and services for customers building private cloud computing infrastructures.

Tue, November 03, 2009 - Catbird's new version of its security software for virtual environments can monitor resources running in Amazon's EC2 cloud.

Tue, November 03, 2009 - Microsoft is trying to steal away Salesforce.com and Oracle CRM on Demand customers with a new offer that will provide them with six months' access to its own CRM Online application at no charge if they sign a 12-month contract.