Early in my editorial career, I'd occasionally cross paths with a well-known, well-connected and highly paid consultant who once declared, "Once the trade press stops writing about a technology, users start to use it."
The concept of private clouds provides a lot of promise, but the technology is not inexpensive. Here's what vendors can actually offer today-and how much it will cost.
- By Eric Beehler
- 03/01/2010
Since becoming editor in chief of Virtualization Review in October, I've discovered that, from a journalistic perspective, there's a lot to like about virtualization because the industry -- if not the baseline technology -- is new and emerging.
The storage area network (SAN) is now an essential technology for many large and midsize enterprises.
Despite a depressed market for servers, Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 R2 appears to have propelled a rebound in volume x86-based systems
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/26/2010
A study released Thursday found that at least some IT projects that have been shelved are back on companies' drawing boards.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/25/2010
CA on Wednesday said it has agreed to acquire closely held 3tera Inc. for an undisclosed sum.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/24/2010
Bob Muglia's talk at a Goldman Sachs technology event on Tuesday was chock full of forward-looking statements.
Microsoft unveiled two new desktop virtualization applications as part of its bundle of tools for managing Windows 7 deployments.
Iron Mountain on Monday said it has acquired e-mail and SharePoint archiving solutions provider Mimosa Systems for $112 million.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/22/2010
Microsoft released a new version of its Windows Azure Service Management (WASM) Cmdlets for PowerShell last week.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/22/2010
In move that is likely to escalate the rivalry between two former partners, Cisco on Friday said it is cutting ties with Hewlett-Packard Co.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/19/2010
Microsoft confirmed that rootkit malware is causing "blue screens of death" for some users who applied a Windows security patch.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/18/2010
Redmond is once again looking into chatter about Microsoft security patches causing "screens of death."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/12/2010
SAP announced last week that its enterprise infrastructure software is now supported by Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2.
The release candidate build of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 is available this week.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 02/09/2010
Microsoft's February security update marks another notable Patch Tuesday, with 13 patches addressing more than 26 vulnerabilities.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/09/2010
A key Microsoft executive answered questions about the company's business prospects at the Thomas Weisel Technology & Telecom Conference on Monday.
Oracle today said it has agreed to acquire AmberPoint, a supplier of software for managing service-oriented architectures, for an undisclosed sum.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/08/2010
IT organizations are budgeting to give employees a small pay increase in 2010, according to a recent report.
- By Anne Watkins
- 02/05/2010