Author: David

With the cloud, software and applications are stored on remote servers and delivered over the Internet rather than individual computers…

The promise of cloud computing might seem limitless, but the challenges it presents are significant, especially in the area of information management, according to a recent study.

The applications and software tools that enable doing business in the cloud also are new places where corporate data resides and is accessed, which requires management and integration with other enterprise data stores…

After years of ridiculing the idea of cloud computing, Oracle is officially “all in” as of last week’s Oracle Open World show. At the confab, CEO Larry Ellison took the wraps off Oracle’s public cloud platform and strategy.

Oracle’s public cloud is going to be a combination of platform as a service (PaaS) and applications/software as a service (SaaS), with the “glue” being Java Enterprise Edition. The five components comprising Oracle’s public cloud are Sun servers; Fusion Middleware, Oracle database; Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c; and Oracle’s Fusion Applications.A few pieces of the Oracle cloud (like CRM) are there now; most pieces seem to be coming “in the near future” (as is pricing, apparently)…

The federal government should look to the cloud computing model and apply it to federal human capital to address some of the challenges that have emerged in the wake of technology advances in the 21st century, according to a new whitepaper…

Early adopters of the cloud had to iron out a lot of teething troubles. Because of their pioneering work, building and deploying a cloud is now much easier, making the benefits available to all kinds of businesses, says Gerry Carr, Director of Communications at Canonical…

Pushing your music, photos, files and digital goodies "to the cloud" has become a common selling point. In commercials, after the pronouncement of those seemingly magical words, people are able to instantly watch their movies and listen to their music from almost anywhere.

These promises aren’t false. In a world where any device with a Wi-Fi connection was plugged into the cloud, you really could access your files anywhere. The problem is that we’re on the frontier of such a reality, and there are dangers — serious dangers — that we’ll have to tackle alongside the strengths offered by the cloud…

IBM Canada (NYSE: IBM) has confirmed it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Platform Computing, a privately-held Toronto company that will help IBM’s cloud computing strategy.

While financial terms of this deal were not disclosed, it comes just one day before IBM plans to make a big announcement concerning future cloud services and technology for the enterprise space. IBM has said that security and portability will be addressed in tomorrow’s cloud announcement. The acquisition is also intended to accelerate IBM’s growth in smarter computing, a key initiative in IBM’s Smarter Planet strategy. Earlier this year, IBM said Smarter Planet projects are estimated to drive $10 billion in revenue for IBM by 2015…