Understanding cloud services: Public vs. private
26 Oct 2010 | SearchCloudComputing.com This is part one of a four-part cloud computing roundtable featuring Technology Writer Carl Brooks and representatives from Novell, Forrester Research, ACS and Paragon Development Systems. Go to Article
IT Seeks a Safe Road to the Cloud
CIOs describe starter cloud efforts that are designed to minimize security and legal risks By Patrick Thibodeau | Computerworld.com Computerworld – The road map for expanding enterprise use of cloud computing is being drawn by IT executives like Mark Stone, CIO at Safety-Kleen Systems Inc. Safety-Kleen, an environmental services company with about 4,200 employees, has […]
Google shuns Oracle, joins VMware to offer Java development tools for cloud
By Carl Bagh | 10.27.10 | ibtimes.com Google and VMware have rolled out a host of collaborative enterprise-level Java development tools to help interoperability of applications in the cloud at the SpringOne 2GX development conference. Google shunned Oracle‘s Enterprise Java Beans platform for building and deploying enterprise Java applications but chose VMware’s Spring Java development […]
The Missing Link: CLOUD MONITORING
End-to-end monitoring offers a view from cloud to enterprise Laura Smith, Features Writer | SearchCIO Imagine the “situation room”: IT executives are staring at a wall of screens that depict the real-time performance of applications and transactions. Does this sound like science fiction? It isn’t anymore, as a spate of end-to-end monitoring tools makes its […]
Building a private cloud? Start slowly
Ivan Pepelnjak | 10.11.10 | SearchNetworking.com Imagine being able to do what Amazon Web Services can do within your own private data center: create a new disk or server, or start new instances of an application in seconds with a few clicks by choosing from hundreds of available templates that span a range of operating […]
Microsoft takes cloud fight to Google
Google and Microsoft are scrapping to get their office apps into the enterprise cloud By Sharon Gaudin | 10.20.10 | ComputerWorld.com Microsoft officially took its ubiquitous Office suite to the cloud this week with Office 365. And that, say industry watchers, is not good news for rival Google, which has been trying to capture the […]