Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Savvis unveils cloud-based service The Virtual Private Data Center is based on Cisco Nexus switches and includes firewalls, intrusion prevention and various quality of service levels.
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Citrix pushes virtual private data centre with Xen Cloud Platform The Citrix-hosted xen.org community announces a platform upon which developers will collaborate on a “complete packaging of Xen.” One analyst said enterprises won’t hit the brakes on their virtualization deployments just yet
Friday, August 21, 2009
GHY’s virtualization journey The professional services firm’s vice-president of IT quickly found that virtualization isn’t a single-stage project. WATCH THE WEBINAR
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Microsoft releases SQL Azure Microsoft on Tuesday released technology previews of SQL Azure, the database for its Azure cloud infrastructure platform, and SQL Server StreamInsight, its entry in the CEP (complex event...
Friday, August 07, 2009
Canadian cloud companies to watch Government, start-ups, investors and ITC companies looking for potential partners in the cloud computing space should pay attention to these 10 Canadian-based cloud companies, suggests IDC Canada
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Clouded over – Cloud confusion reigns in U.S. gov't Feds still unsure what is and what is not cloud computing, according to report
Friday, July 24, 2009
Cloud computing security pros debate the IT risks TORONTO A little while ago, a CIO friend of Richard Reiners asked him to look after an agreement his firm had signed with a service provider. This was a contract the CIOs predecessor had...
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Why cloud computing needs open source Tech giants like Google and Amazon have laid out the formula to follow for open-source-driven cloud computing environments, according to experts from The 451 Group and Red Hat
Thursday, July 23, 2009
How to protect your IT career from cloud computing Already under pressure, IT pros face new competition for their jobs from cloud services. Here's a look at which jobs go, and which become more valuable
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Opera Unite could lead to 'fog computing' age A new beta feature in Opera’s latest browser aims to turn every Web client into a Web server. The company’s CEO is calling it Web 5.0, but find out why the technology could spawn another buzzword
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Cloud computing a 'security nightmare,' says Chambers Cloud computing is hot, but the head of Cisco Systems sees trouble coming. At the RSA security conference, one speaker said it should be called 'swamp computing'
Monday, April 20, 2009
Will VMware's vSphere solve IT cloud computing worries? VMware hopes vSphere 4 will help the company gain a central role in both public and private cloud computing systems. How well does vSphere 4 address the key worries that enterprises have about cloud computing?
Monday, March 16, 2009
16 IT strategies to do less with less Government tech departments can take these tips from their enterprise counterpart on cutting unnecessary expenditures, scaling back over-allocated services and clearing out outdated apps and orphaned software as well as buying bagels for the staff
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Microsoft has no plans for on-demand ERP Microsoft intends to continue with its current model, wherein partners host Dynamics ERP and customize it for customers 
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Welcome to the global cloud Going from a private cloud to an external one can be a challenge, from the regulatory issues to the interoperability conundrum
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Cloud security fears overblown Concerns about the security of cloud computing services may be overstated, according to panelists at IDC's Cloud Computing Forum 
Thursday, February 12, 2009
The many flavours of carrier Ethernet We think we know what it means, but carrier Ethernet comes in three offerings. Each has advantages and disadvantages
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Five top IT spending priorities for tough times Which technologies should get funded come rain or shine? Here are the five technologies that IT shops must continue to invest in despite the recession
Monday, October 06, 2008
IBM opens door on Bluehouse - a Facebook for business Bluehouse combines a familiar pallet of collaboration tools, including IM, Web conferencing, document sharing, profiles, directory and tools to build business networking communities -- all delivered via a cloud platform...
Thursday, September 18, 2008
10 things seen and heard at VMWorld While 14,000 users attended a VMware partner conference in Las Vegas, someone distributed fake casino chips promoting Microsoft Hyper-V. Find out about VMware’s plans for cloud computing and the iPhone
Monday, June 23, 2008
Salesforce.com further integrates with Google The toolkit, which lets programmers connect their applications or data into Google Apps and other Google services, strengthens the already tight relationship between the two vendors
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Blogging Idol contestants look up at the Cloud Our Blogging Idol contenders butted heads over whether cloud computing is the way of the future, or just a clever bit of “marketechture.” Read on for the rumble.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
What to do when you drop your hard drive When a teacher gave his hard drive to an ornithologist who accidentally dropped it in the jungle, the platter was so badly damaged he thought he lost his pictures and documents forever. Find out how he recovered them.
Thursday, December 21, 2006
All I want for Christmas is computing power Amazon's recently released Elastic Compute Cloud (which it calls EC2 and is still in beta) for the first time brings to the masses the ability to buy server power in the same way you now buy electricity or water. In essence, you pay 10 cents per virtual server per hour, plus bandwidth costs, and you do with that power whatever you want.