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Although it can be difficult to imagine for the millions of us who live in safety and comfort, 24 people […]

More people are turning to the cloud for their business needs today. This is because the cloud has a lot […]

Every time you’ve installed a piece of commercial software, you’ve invariably been presented with what must have appeared to be […]

Insights as a service is a model experiencing supersonic growth, so it’s natural to wonder where it’s headed. Fortunately, there […]

There are thousands of apps that rely on cloud computing to store important information and files from their customers, but […]

IoT business models hinge on data analysis. From responding to emergency situations to discerning patterns in vast troves of historical […]

Today’s cities are living entities. They develop, grow and become more complex over time. Yet, many of their most pressing […]

Iceland. A fascinating, strange place. And misunderstood. Did you know that the famous Blue Lagoon is actually a man-made pool filled with runoff from the power plant next door? Or that Iceland could become the world’s next data center capital?

It’s no surprise that companies implementing dynamic IoT solutions are doing so by harnessing the power of cloud computing. However, […]

The little plug-in gadget can play more than just the trickle of streams Google announced at launch. And many more could rush in.

A step-by-step guide to publishing your work worldwide on Amazon.

Customers of cloud computing need to be assured that providers apply appropriate security practices to mitigate the risks they both […]

In large companies, cloud computing is a transformative shift where the greatest challenges amay be more about people, process and politics, not technology integration.

Software Defined Networks (SDN) promises to make high-capacity networks cheaper to build and easier to configure, not to mention faster and more efficient. So why do so many people dismiss the technology as hype?

Cloud computing is a technological revolution in progress and has been emerging as one of the most reliable paths for […]

Whether you’re looking for a cloud-based storage app to upload and organize your personal photos or you’re seeking a platform […]

Technology has always been positive for impacting businesses. Technology is the grease on the wheels that will bring growth to […]

With the rise of technology, Big Data has revolutionized the industry standards to a remarkable extent. The rapid increase in […]

The advent of fast and reliable Internet paved the way for a more interconnected world. People now have the ability […]

Today, we got the chance to sit down with Aprimo, an on-demand marketing automation company that has built their software business around scaling their own cloud infrastructure with VMware vCenter. Aprimo has optimized its offerings to scale with customer growth and leverage best-in-class hardware to match innovation in the software layers it…

The Nikkei Daily in Japan is reporting that Fujitsu will invest $537 million in cloud computing for 2011.

That seems like a staggering investment to us but perhaps it’s not at all surprising considering the metamorphosis in the IT sector.

According to The Nikkei and Reuters, the investments will be for more servers and external memory storage…

Microsoft revealed a bit more about its container system for data centers, giving us some pause about it as a symbol of the cloud itself.

These boxes represent the future of cloud-based infrastructures for both shared and dedicated networks. Microsoft, Amazon, HP and a number of other vendors use these containers to operate cloud networks. They…

Yesterday, Hitachi took the wraps off their Unified Computing Platform by introducing its open data center platform. It is aimed at consolidating the enterprise functions of networking, storage, and compute into an orchestration layer.

Virtualization is still guiding the evolution of the data center, in this case all the way to the physical…

Tomorrow, GroundWork Open Source Inc. and Eucalyptus Systems will be announcing that they have partnered to deliver monitoring and management of applications running in a Eucalyptus private cloud environment.

If your enterprise is running private cloud powered by Eucalyptus, you now can plug your cloud into the GroundWork’s monitoring solution…

Cloudkick is a cloud monitoring start-up that helps system admins manage cloud servers. Today, the company announced it is getting physical, bringing its cloud monitoring capabilities to internally hosted servers and virtual machines.

The company has had a lot of success in helping companies who startup in the cloud and start to achieve scale…

Early this morning, we received an announcement from Amazon the company is launching a pilot for EC2 customers to allow your enterprise organizations to move existing Microsoft Windows Server licenses to Amazon and receive a proper discount for the new EC2 instance.

The offer is open until September and is being called a pilot by the companies…

At the RSA Keynote a few weeks back, Amazon’s Security Lead, Steve Riley participated on a panel with other security leaders of the industry. We were impressed with the openness of all of the participants, and particularly excited with the new concepts coming from at Amazon. Riley used a term that is being used within his part of Amazon, the…

This week’s poll is inspired our friends at CloudAve. Krishnan Subramanian wrote a post today about open-sourcing data center design.

It’s about time, isn’t it? Subramanian best point comes down to what is happening right now in the cloud computing world. The enthusiasm for cloud computing is such that there is no time to waste.

This week we are reporting from RSA, the security conference in San Francisco. We’ve seen hackers, threats, and industry leaders roaming these halls – and among these we found leaders of the identity community, people who are thought leaders focused on creating a safe Internet for all individuals.

This includes folks who in the Identity Commons…

A first peek at Apple’s new data center in Maiden, North Carolina, shows a massive complex that demonstrates the huge commitment Apple may be making to cloud computing.

According to Data Center Knowledge, the $1 billion data center is 500,000 square feet in size, nearly five times the size of Apple’s 100,000 square foot facility in Newark, New…

Cisco is betting heavily on the network as the platform. We took a look at the role of the network in the emerging landscape of cloud computing as part one of analysis of “Will One Company be Dominant in Cloud Computing”. We started with Cisco, since the cloud implies the network to float upon.

Like religion itself, Cisco is a company that…

Today we had the chance to get inside the head of one of the top entrepreneurs in cloud computing – a guy who also just happens to be an investor at one of the Valley’s top firms. Satish Dharmaraj, former founder and CEO of Zimbra, spoke with us about the trends he is looking at in his role at Redpoint Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture firm…

If you’re a software-as-a-service company you are probably thinking about how cloud computing can save you money and time. The same thing is true for departments in the enterprise that wants to spin up a new service for customers.

We had a chance to sit down with BlueLock, one of the leaders in cloud-based infrastructure providers. Their…