IT industry professionals, analysts and vendors all have their unique ideas when it comes to describing what cloud computing means, …
Intel enables hybrid cloud for small businesses
With its new AppUp offering, Intel hopes to facilitate a new kind of cloud service for small businesses that have …
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 …
San Francisco migrates to Microsoft’s cloud services
The city and county of San Francisco have started a transition to using Microsoft’s hosted e-mail service, choosing the software …
VMware debuts sign-on service for cloud apps
In the hopes of simplifying cloud operations for organisations, VMware has launched a federated sign-on service for cloud applications. The …
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 …
Into the vortex
Everyone says the cloud is the future. Not without the proper service level agreements (SLAs) – contracts that specify quality …
Google launches Chrome OS
Google co-founder Sergey Brin said Windows and other traditional PC operating systems are “torturing users” at Google’s Chrome OS launch …
IBM launches new cloud analytics tool
IBM recently announced new cloud analytics software, Coremetrics Lifecycle, to help customers capitalise on every marketing milestone. From customer acquisition …
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 …