Author: David

VMware, Inc. /quotes/zigman/464645/quotes/nls/vmw VMW +4.30% , the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today unveiled three product suites designed to simplify and automate IT management. With significant enhancements to VMware vCenter Operations(TM) and the introduction of new VMware vFabric Application Management(TM) and VMware IT Business Management suites, VMware will help customers amplify the value of their virtual environments and achieve the agility and economics of cloud computing…

The term “cloud computing” has been used to describe a wide variety of services and frameworks recently, which has caused confusion among many in the industry.

One definition of the cloud is a service or services provided by an outside entity, such as an application stack you access from your systems, running on servers and storage maintained by the provider. In this definition, Google provides a cloud service such as Gmail or Google Docs that you might use but not need to maintain…

If you’re looking to move to the cloud, you’ve probably wondered whether Google Apps or Office 365, two of the leading cloud computing service providers, is right for you.  So how do you know which service to choose?  Here is a side-by-side comparison of the services offered through each…

Microsoft has released a new version of Windows Intune — its fledgling online service for managing PCs — continuing its push into the brave new world of “cloud computing”.

“Our vision for Windows Intune is big,” Eric Main of Microsoft said in a blog post on Monday. “We want to take the best of the capabilities delivered through our on-premises solutions…and enable them through the cloud.”…

In an unusually tame appearance at the Web 2.0 Summit, Salesforce.com (NASDAQ:SFDC) CEO Marc Benioff declined to lash out at rival Oracle and its mercurial CEO Larry Ellison and even praised the company for its success…

HP today announced new services and solutions based on HP Converged Infrastructure that empower service providers and enterprises to rapidly deliver cloud services while leveraging existing investments, minimizing risk and lowering costs…

People underestimate how much cloud providers present a challenge to IT as it’s practiced today in most organizations. A couple of news stories brought home this point. They illustrate the existential threat that cloud computing and its practices present to corporate IT groups.

The first item that came across my desk was a blog entry about AOL and how it has built a completely unmanned data center. The writer noted that he came to AOL relatively recently and was tasked with streamlining its data centers. He says, "It was during this process that I came to realize that our particular legacy challenge, while at ‘Internet’ scale, was more closely related to the challenges of most corporate or government environments than the biggest Internet players."…