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April 3, 2013  9:37 PM

BMW accelerates private to hybrid cloud



Posted by: Michelle Boisvert
cloud computing

Sure, security is an important concern for any company moving to the cloud. But enterprise worries run much deeper than that. As large enterprises try cloud computing -- either by moving specific workloads to...

March 28, 2013  6:27 PM

Rackspace woos developers with Exceptional acquisition



Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Amazon Web Services, cloud computing, Rackspace

Rackspace hopes its second acquisition in as many months will increase its appeal to application developers. The new buy, announced Thursday, will see the employees and assets of Exceptional Cloud Services, based in San Francisco, Calif., join Rackspace as a wholly owned subsidiary. This deal...


February 25, 2013  7:12 PM

Bare-metal approach may ease cautious enterprises into cloud



Posted by: Ed Scannell
cloud computing

The idea of migrating existing workloads to public clouds got a bit of a boost earlier this month when Racemi disclosed its migration software would support SoftLayer's popular CloudLayer platform.


December 4, 2012  3:49 PM

Cloud services: If not now, when?



Posted by: Margie Semilof
Amazon Web Services, aws, cloud, cloud computing

  The notion of using cloud-based services still terrifies enterprise IT pros, even though such services have advanced in both quality and variety for years. IT pros remain frozen by the specter of losing control of data, security breaches and random service outages. Some of these reasons...


November 6, 2012  7:41 PM

Cloud-based collaboration replaces Office Space mentality of enterprise



Posted by: Caitlin White
BYOD, Citrix, cloud, cloud adoption, cloud communication, cloud computing, enterprise cloud, Google cloud computing services, SaaS

  The modern office no longer looks like Office Space, with a staff of office drones tied to their cubicle desks, working from an office-provided desktop every day.  In a world of iPads, Blackberries, Androids, iPhones and...


August 28, 2012  4:39 PM

Seven minutes of terror in cloud performance testing



Posted by: LaspeTT
Amazon AWS, Amazon Web Services, cloud, cloud computing, cloud management, cloud performance, NASA

  Millions of viewers tuned in to NASA's website to watch streamed live coverage of its 'Curiosity' rover landing on the surface of Mars earlier this month and though it all went off without a hitch, a server outage or a website blip could have done some serious damage to NASA's...


March 8, 2012  8:11 PM

Yup, your cloud hunch was right



Posted by: Michelle Boisvert
cloud, cloud adoption, Cloud Industry Forum, USA Cloud Adoption & Trends in 2012

Everything you’ve read about who is using cloud computing and why is pretty much true, so says at least one industry study.

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February 16, 2012  2:30 AM

Making cloud viral in your enterprise



Posted by: Michelle Boisvert
cloud, cloud adoption, cloud conference, devops

IT teams understand the cloud model and are trying to realize its economic benefits.

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February 9, 2012  6:30 PM

VMware claims three-fold jump in ‘vCloud Powered’ clouds



Posted by: Stuart Johnston
vCloud, vCloud Director, vCloud Integration Manager, Virtualization, VMware

VMware has dominated the server virtualization marketplace since the early days -- so why is it still so far behind in the cloud computing space?


February 3, 2012  7:30 PM

OpenStack may drop Hyper-V from next release



Posted by: Stuart Johnston
Hyper-V, microsoft, open source, OpenStack

There's been some handwringing since late January when the open source cloud platform

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