Managed services providers eye cloud computing promise
Ingram Micro helps its MSP partners identify the cloud computing opportunities
The use of computing resources (hardware and software) which are available in a remote location and accessible over a network (typically the Internet), often on a subscription or “as a service” basis. Cloud computing entrusts remote services with a user’s data, software and computation.
Toronto’s Asigra seeks Canadian partners to back up the clouds
Asigra’s new Hybrid Partner Program aims to reward existing partners and attract new ones
VMware broadens its cloud strategy
VMware has security for its cloud OS, an API for integrating internal and external clouds and improved management in store for the visitors of VMworld Europe
Cloud security fears are overblown, some say
Concerns about the security of cloud computing services may be overstated, panelists at IDC’s Cloud Computing Forum said
The enterprise obstacles to cloud computing in Canada
Hosted IT infrastructure and applications online can bring benefits, but attendees at the Canadian Cloud Computing Conference heard more about the challenges for corporations
IBM and Juniper launch a cloud computing strategy
IBM and Juniper on Monday provided a peek at technology that lets enterprises easily reallocate computing resources between a private and a public cloud
Sky high computing
The industry was humming in 2008 with talk of cloud computing, but will 2009 reveal that the enthusiasm was premature?
Amazon eases cloud control
Currently in beta, the AWS Management Console is a browser-based dashboard for Elastic Cloud that — unlike Elastic Fox — is not restricted to Firefox
Slideshow: Lotusphere heads for the cloud in pictures
IBM’s software group brings in A-listers like Dan Ackroyd
IT could be a lot worse off in 2009: IDC
The analyst firm says the ongoing economic recession might actually help drive the information and communications technology industry forward
‘PC killer’ Pano cube made for a cloud computing world
One reseller hopes that, with cloud computing, an innocuous silver cube with the footprint of a CD case could replace the PC
On-demand services delivering a new kind of software
Enterprise technology now comes out of a modem, DSL or fibre optic cable
Gartner’s data on energy consumption, virtualization, cloud
Only two major server operating systems will experience significant growth through 2010 — Windows and Linux
Windows in the cloud and a services offering from Microsoft
Windows Azure and Azure Services provides developers and end-users with more flexibility and choice
Peering behind the cloud
Cloud computing will be about cost savings and not technology