There’s nothing quite like a disruptive event, such as the emergence of private cloud computing, to potentially turn an IT industry upside down and inside out. Although we’re still in the very early ...

IT executives that opt to build their own private clouds versus leveraging all the services already available in the cloud are ignoring, at their own peril, one of the primary reasons that cloud ...

What will the year ahead bring for cloud computing? We predict it will center around two major races: the hyperscaler race to ...

As the industry continues to push toward standards and definitions around cloud computing, Surgient continues to deploy its patented virtualized logical server cloud to customers. So what does ...

The National Institute for Standards in Technology has a definition of what cloud computing is that’s fairly agreed upon within the industry. But research firm Gartner says there’s still a lot of ...

In our last newsletter we distinguished between public and private cloud computing and discussed some of the challenges associated with supporting both forms of cloud computing over a WAN. In this ...

Last week brought a spate of interesting--and contradictory--stories and research reports about how enterprises are or will embrace cloud computing, topped off by a report by Forrester analyst James ...

According to Gartner's 2010 hype cycle report, which examines 1,800 technologies and evaluates their maturity, cloud computing is on the cusp of reaching mainstream adoption within the next two to ...