private cloud

Market for ‘hosted private cloud’ services to surpass $24B in 2016

I admit that when I first heard about "hosted private cloud" (sometimes called "virtual private cloud") a few years ago, I was deeply skeptical. Some providers were just re-branding their dedicated managed hosting offerings and slapping a cloud label on them. I recall one person who worked for...

Is private cloud really a cloud?

When I began covering cloud, the "dumb" question that kept popping up for me that I was afraid to ask: Is the private cloud actually a cloud? The article...

Why are telecom companies the red-headed stepchildren of cloud?

For the record: Lest the blog...

Cloud news roundup: Salesforce makes mobile/social play, Nirvanix scores its biggest deployment this year

Is there such a thing as a quiet news week for cloud providers? No, we didn't think so either. Here are a few things worth watching from the past week:

• Salesforce.com acquires Model Metrics: What do pigs, rabbits and polar bears have in common with Salesforce.com?...