Cloud Computing


Standards Group Releases Cloud 'Roadmap' for Government

To encourage U.S. government agencies to adopt cloud computing technologies, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a "roadmap" draft for public comment.

Transforming Private Clouds

Maintaining control and security are essential when building out virtualized datacenters.

V-Commander Takes Charge of Private Clouds

Embotics combines all the bells and whistles in one slick, easy-to-use private cloud package.

Mainframe Clouds Roll In

More and more x86 workloads are returning to the big box. It makes perfect sense, too, as it's the big box where the cloud had been conceived decades ago.

Enough with the Truth Already: A Cloud Conversation with Jon Toigo

You want a piece of Jon Toigo? Be my guest.

TAKE 5: Cloud Security Solutions That Caught My Eye

The variety of cloud security strategies leaves users with interesting and diverse choices.

Virtualization with the vSphere Storage Appliance

Shared storage is one of the main enablers of enterprise features in virtualization.

Citrix Announces Slew of Cloud, Desktop Virtualization Products

Citrix Systems rolled out several new products on Wednesday during its Synergy partner conference in Barcelona.

What Drives VMware CTO Stephen Herrod? Customers, Challenges, The Cloud

A Q&A with the tech chief on what keeps the company looking above the cloud.

Microsoft, Amazon Offer SQL Server 2012 Testing in the Cloud

A collaboration between Microsoft and Amazon would allow developers to test SQL Server 2012, previously code-named "Denali," in Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

Zend Announces PHP Cloud

Zend Technologies recently rolled out phpcloud.com, a platform and partner ecosystem aimed at facilitating the development and delivery of PHP-based Web apps.

Oracle To Acquire RightNow

Oracle announced today pans to purchase RightNow Technologies Inc. for $1.5 billion.

Cisco Working With Citrix on Many Virtualization Fronts

Cisco and Citrix Systems have formed an alliance that has them working together to deliver Citrix-supported Cisco hardware and devices to Cisco's customers

Citrix Gets Cloud Storage with ShareFile

The acquisition gives Citrix a foot in a crowded cloud storage segment competing with Dropbox, Apple and others.

City of Los Angeles Raises Security Concerns over Google Cloud Contract

Google's contract to provide cloud-based applications to the city of Los Angeles hit a snag this week, after the city expressed concerns over the security of Google's offerings.

Microsoft Rolls Out Next Version of Windows Intune Cloud Service

"Wave 2," the name of the second generation of Microsoft's Windows Intune cloud-based PC management service, was released as scheduled on Monday.

IBM Boosts Public and Private Cloud Portfolio

IBM this week fleshed out its SmartCloud public and private cloud portfolio as it looks to capture what it is predicting will be a growing base of enterprise customers.

Microsoft Details New Features in Upcoming SQL Azure Release

Microsoft outlined some of the new features coming in the next release of SQL Azure -- which the company said will arrive in Q4 2011 -- during Day 2 of the PASS Summit, taking place this week in Seattle.

Google Cloud SQL Launches in Limited Preview

Google Cloud SQL, which adds a MySQL database Web service to Google's cloud-based App Engine development stack, is now available in a free preview version, Google announced this week.

Oracle CEO Slams Cloud Rivals, Unveils Public Cloud Service

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison took the stage on Wednesday at the annual Oracle OpenWorld conference to unveil the Oracle Public Cloud, a Platform as a Service (PaaS) designed to run the company's Fusion Applications, which are now generally available.

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