Cloud computing

Which cloud computing vendors will end up on top?

Gartner analyst David Mitchell Smith made one thing clear when he gave an overview of the leading cloud computing vendors during a recent webinar. He was not endorsing any of them.

But it was obvious that Gartner is placing its bets on a few technology companies -- namely Microsoft and...

Comic-Con: IT innovation lessons from dudes in Stormtrooper suits

There are a few annual events I adore even though I'll never ever go to any of them: Burning Man, SXSW, TED, and this time of year, Comic-Con. When...

State Street tech layoffs: IT transformation’s dark side

State Street Corp. announced this week that it is cutting 530 of its "non-client-facing" IT employees over the next 18 to 20 months, and shifting an additional 320 similar IT workers to outsourcing vendors IBM and Wipro Technologies. Application maintenance services are going to Wipro, while IBM...

Building an innovation pipeline that’s not a pipe dream

"We like to call it our innovation pipeline, but that sounds rather presumptuous," CIO Christopher Perretta confesses, pausing for a split second. "But it is!" he...

IT business transformation sums up critical CIO role

Business transformation and IT transformation no longer are separate items on the enterprise agenda. Now that agenda is all about IT business transformation, as three technology trends work their way into the business processes of many organizations:

Add virtualization licensing to list of cloud security risks

We’ve written quite a bit about the need for changes to software virtualization licensing terms to uncouple them from the physical hardware and accommodate the dynamic,...

Red Hat rallies with the promise of an open source cloud PaaS

Open source computing is based on the concept that sharing is a good thing -- a virtue we were all supposed to learn in kindergarten. This week at the World Trade Center in Boston, Red Hat shared its vision of an open source cloud ecosphere based on

NASA takes off with an open government and cloud infrastructure plan

Don't be surprised if NASA's Nebula cloud becomes the model -- and maybe the mother -- of cloud infrastructure in the U.S. NASA is embarking on an ambitious plan to overhaul its existing data center infrastructure to standardize on open...

Cloud service providers urge lawmakers to postpone legislation

Only a science fiction writer might have imagined that consumer technologies like smartphones -- coupled with a cloud computing service like Facebook -- would be dissidents' weapons of choice in toppling regimes, as we have seen these last few months in the Middle East.

Facebook, the...

In the cloud, even custom apps will be a commodity

I'll make this short because God knows you've read enough about cloud computing and its software variation, SaaS. This concerns the cloud and custom apps, in particular the proprietary apps and IT systems...