Cloud computing

Community Goals for 2011 into 2012

Each new year is a chance to set a new spin on your business, and IT is no different. We asked the community what

HP’s head in the clouds, this time on purpose

HP...

Microsoft wedges its way into VMworld 2011 with anti-VMware video

Not to be left out, Microsoft has asserted its opinion on host of this week's big conference in Las Vegas, VMworld 2011, by way of a Youtube video touting its private cloud services. The...

Is 15 years of Microsoft enough preparation to fix government IT?

The mother of all IT budget cuts

Vendor Promises 100% Uptime for Storage

Employee-as-a-Service: The benefits and dangers of an “It’s complicated” business relationship

Michael Ryan over at IBM Systems Magazine has an interesting piece up, provocatively titled Should You Rent or Own Your Employees? Rented employees, as it were, include independent contractors and...

Is cloud storage actually on the rise?

It seems the only people that are one hundred percent for the cloud are cloud vendors: storage, services, security, you name it. But the people who actually have to sign off their data to the cloud? Well,

Yammer’s David Sacks: Product vs. Platform

Last week at Enterprise 2.0, I sat down with David Sacks, CEO of Yammer. In the description of his panel discussion, Platform vs. Product, was a mention of the fault line between traditional software offerings and platform solutions with a wide range of capabilities. However, the conclusion the...

The Macs ARE coming, and there might not be a lot you should do to stop them

When I first started out as a beat reporter covering mobile for SearchMobileComputing, it was an interesting time: The iPhone was relatively new, BlackBerry was the only true "corporate" phone, there were serious questions between whether...