In a largely downbeat year, I couldn't help but delight in Larry Ellison's over-the-top takedown of cloud computing last September. …
Cloud storage
Cloud storage may be creating a stir these days, but big enterprise users aren't buying in — at least not …
Broadcom buying Dune Networks for cloud switching
Broadcom has agreed to acquire Dune Networks, a privately held maker of high-speed switch fabrics, for about US$178 million, the …
Riverbed looks to speed cloud applications, storage
Riverbed Technology has a plan to help companies accelerate access to applications and storage resources that are located in a …
Cloud won't do for critical applications, SAP says
SAP does not expect mission-critical applications to move to the cloud in the near future, the company's chief technology officer …
Space agency eyes Amazon cloud for star data
The European Space Agency (ESA) plans to launch a new scanning satellite to map the stars in our galaxy in …
Gartner on cloud security: 'Our nightmare scenario is here now'
At the Gartner Symposium IT/Expo this week, thousands of IT managers packed into sessions on the topic of virtualization of …
Vendor group forms cloud storage initiative
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) announced the formation of the Cloud Storage Initiative (CSI) in order to establish a …
Vendor group forms cloud storage initiative
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) announced the formation of the Cloud Storage Initiative (CSI) in order to establish a …
IBM unveils disk archive system, cloud storage tools
IBM this week unveiled a new private cloud storage service for enterprise-class companies at its Information Infrastructure Analyst Summit conference …
Cloud security through control vs.ownership
Cloud computing makes auditors cringe. It's something we hear consistently from enterprise customers: it was hard enough to make virtualization …
White House CIO to disclose cloud computing plans
White House Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra will explain how the federal government plans to offer cloud computing services to …
Savvis unveils cloud-based service
Savvis will announce a next-generation cloud computing platform that it claims is the first fully virtualized private data center offering …
EMC acquires cloud support vendor FastScale
EMC has acquired FastScale Technology, a vendor of software for data centers, in an effort to focus on supporting private …
Cloud computing vendors trying to woo partners
One of the early promises of software-as-a-service and cloud computing was that it would allow start-ups to directly market their …
VMware buys SpringSource in cloud move
A move intended to capitalize on the budding cloud application deployment trend will unite virtualization vendor VMware with Java framework …
Cloud computing confusion reigns in U.S. government
Federal officials predict that cloud computing will play a big role in future government IT initiatives, but are still confused …
Twitter breach revives security issues with cloud computing
Security and privacy issues over cloud computing are not very different from those surrounding any sort of IT outsourcing and …
Go virtual or go cloud?
For the past three years, HotSchedules.com Inc., an Austin-based provider of online labor-scheduling services, has experienced annual revenue growth of …
Novell makes a run at cloud security
Novell is trying to secure cloud services with technology that maps corporate security policies to service providers’ clouds so applications …