Author: David

CIOs will be spending between 40% and 80% of their IT budgets on cloud services in five years, according to senior IT leaders.

The promise of lower capital spending on IT, lower overall IT costs and greater technical agility make cloud computing inevitable, according to a panel of 50 CIOs.

But there remain significant hurdles to overcome before businesses can trust core business applications in the cloud, the CIOs told management consultants Xantus…

La Salle-educated Chinese-Filipino Winston Damarillo moved to the US at age 20, sleeping on his uncle’s couch for a year.

Verecloud, Inc., innovators in the emerging cloud computing services business, today announced that it has appointed sales and marketing veteran Jeff Hutcheon as Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing to lead Verecloud to a new level of success…

Virgin Media Business has today launched a new cloud services and virtualisation portfolio.

Aiming to bring a easy-to-use and jargon free service to customers, Virgin has spearheaded the launch with the Virtual Private Data Centre, which is designed to offer powerful virtual computing to businesses of all sizes…

Usually it’s the defendant in a lawsuit that seeks to have a case dismissed.

But Google, for some mysterious reason, has filed a motion to dismiss the case it brought last October against the U.S. Department of the Interior alleging that the federal agency inappropriately rigged the bidding process for cloud-based email and collaboration services in favor of Microsoft…

CloudPassage, the leading cloud server security company, today announced that Joerg Rathenberg has joined the company as Vice President of Marketing. Rathenberg joins CloudPassage from virtual event leader Unisfair, where he was Vice President of Marketing…

IBM believes the world needs to get smaller and smarter, and the way to achieve both goals is for small businesses to embrace cloud computing.

For years, the century-old computer giant has promoted “solutions for a small planet.” Now it’s pushing solutions for “the smarter planet.” Whatever the tag line, the company says that cloud-based solutions from IBM can help small businesses grow faster and succeed bigger…

Searchlight Solutions Ltd. (pinksheets:SLLN) today announces its subsidiary, Linux Labs International, Inc., is launching a beta program for IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) style private and hybrid clouds based on their proprietary Indigo file system and Nimbus cloud operating system. The platform provides a single interface that lets users access high performance computing infrastructure resources available in private clouds…

Data center provider Telx (www.telx.com) announced on Tuesday that it has formed a strategic alliance with cloud computing solution provider Hexagrid Computing (www.hexagrid.com).

According to the press release, the relationship will enable Telx’s managed service provider and enterprise colocation customers in its 15 "cloud connection" centers to build customized cloud environments with Telx interconnection services and Hexagrid’s cloud computing platform…