Finding practical applications for cloud computing, for both public and public, has been the concern of IT vendors; while sellers are still absorb in re-discussing the meaning and business importance for cloud computing. Several IT giants held a panel at Interop to discuss private cloud. Representatives from Novell, IBM, NEC and Intel send off confusing…
Xerox and Cisco to Collaborate on Cloud Computing Services Xerox Corporation and Cisco on Monday announced that they intend to form an alliance to simplify IT management by delivering cloud-based services and technology solutions that combine network intelligence and print. The alliance plans to bring Xerox’s managed print and cloud IT outsourcing (ITO) services to…
Cloud computing has become a major discussion thread in the IT world, but it has been redefined in recent years to speak to the increasing number of deployment scenarios – and their practical uses for business workloads. The business benefits of cloud computing are clear: the ability to leverage virtualized infrastructure for greater efficiency, and…
Compuware has worked extensively with VMware to provide extensive support for VMware environments within the Compuware Vantage Application Performance Management (APM) solution. Unlike most other APM solutions, Vantage provides application performance management in both physical and virtual environments, which means it can be used to provide a consistent APM environment throughout the migration of applications…
Cloud computing can be described as the new era in the world of computing. It is composed of several layers, all of which can be accessed by users connected to it. Understanding what each layer comprises of, the functions of each layer, how these layers interact with each other, including the need for diverse technological…
In an effort to support the cloud computing community with the latest thought leadership on cloud computing, security and virtualization, CloudTimes is proud to announce our own Research Library. The library consists of whitepapers, articles, documents and webinars which can be downloaded for free on http://research.cloudtimes.org/ Popular Topics include Cloud Computing Design and Facilities Distributed…
MeriTalk, the government information technology (IT) network, today announced the results of the “Federal Cloud Weather Report” report. The report provides a status on Federal cloud computing migration, explores agencies’ cloud challenges, and delivers insight on the road ahead. Underwritten by VMware, the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, the report shows that Feds are…
Deloitte issued today it’s annual Technology Trends report which identifies the 10 disruptive and emerging technologies that are expected to play a crucial role in how businesses will operate globally over the next 18 months. For 2011 Deloitte identified 10 important trends, grouped in two categories: 1. (Re)Emerging Enablers: represents 5 trends that CIOs are…
AlwaysOn partnered with Morgan Stanley, KPMG, Hewlett-Packard, Blackstone Group, Bridge Bank, Fenwick & West, Silicon Valley Bank, along with industry experts, to identify the top 100 private on-demand and SaaS companies – plus 16 to watch – that are pioneers in cloud computing and SaaS. Companies were selected based on a set of five criteria:…
IBM revealed today (in beta) a new advanced virtual deployment software which enables organizations to build a cloud environment rapidly with greater ease of management than ever before. This IBM software has tremendous speed and can deploy a single virtual machine in seconds, dozens in a few minutes and hundreds or thousands at the unrivaled…