Enterprises of every size are moving applications and infrastructure to the cloud. Maintaining operational awareness is difficult enough within a single cloud…
Read MoreOpSource Inc.'s brand spanking new Silicon Valley data center should cut latency times and boost network performance for the cloud provider's enterprise and service provider customers on the West Coast and provide co-location options for enterprises wanting redundancy.…
Read MoreTo build its new business cloud services, IBM melded Coremetrics' web analytics, Sterling Commerce' supply chain, and Unica social media marketing smarts acquired last year with its home-grown middleware. Then it optimized it all for the Power7 hardware running IBM's cloud.…
Read MoreClean is as clean does when it comes to cloud computing and green data centers. Much has been said about how cloud computing boosts energy efficiency as data centers move off old tech and into the cloud. But there's more to being green than energy use.…
Read MoreRightScale, which lets companies peer into the innards of their cloud computing workloads, just surpassed the three-millionth server mark. Its cloud agnosticism could help it maintain share even as Amazon, RackSpace et al. add their own management capabilities, says CEO Richard Crandell.…
Read MoreA bold proposal from Reinhard Clemens, CEO of Deutsche Telekom's T-systems group. He would like certifications to enable the creation of super-secure clouds in Germany to slake pent-up demand among customers that don't want to expose their data to U.S. government, Patriot Act scrutiny.…
Read MoreNow that Amazon's highest-end Compute Clusters support Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft-centric customers can use Amazon's “compute intensive beasts” to run heavy-duty media processing, rendering or computational finance work loads. the move also brings Microsoft more parity with Linux on the Amazon platform.…
Read MoreJoyent pitches its revamped Joyent Cloud as a faster, cheaper platform that will give customers more insight into their cloud-based operations than the incumbent leader Amazon.…
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