Cloud Computing


Q&A: Infrastructure-as-a-Service

What is infrastructure-as-a-service and how can you maximize its benefits?

The Key to SOA Success: Application Performance Management

Given its widespread adoption, service-oriented architecture is clearly an integral component of cloud computing and software-as-a-service. However, without the management tools to address such issues as application performance, the rapid development and deployment of SOA-based services could fail.

Enterprise Applications in the Cloud: A SaaS Security Perspective

The security challenges and mitigation strategies to help you migrate your enterprise applications to the cloud while ensuring your data’s safety.

Q&A: Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence

SOA and cloud computing are hot topics in IT. Here's what you need to understand about how they're interconnected and how you can take advantage of their benefits.

On to a New Decade

In 2010, vendor marketing campaigns will ramp up with the usual hype.

Q&A: Building a Private Cloud

We examine the benefits and uses of building a private cloud, and explain the implementation best practices.

Clouds in 2010: Will Yours Be Lined With Silver or Filled with Coal Dust?

Will 2010 be the first meaningful stage of cloud computing's rocket ride of growth and enterprise usage?



Five IT Focal Points for 2010

What should IT focus on this year? Some key issues from 2009 remain, but several new areas will need IT's attention.

Trends and Predictions from Big Blue

IBM managers look at key events and company strategy from 2009 and explain what it means for customers in 2010.

Saying Goodbye to a Turbulent 2009

From the Sun/Oracle acquisition to radical changes in the server market, it's been a topsy-turvy year in IT. We take a look at the highlights.

Q&A: The Truth about Private Clouds

Truths and myths about private clouds.

Interop New York: Customers Press Vendors for Private Clouds

Google, Microsoft, and Amazon pitched their respective cloud offerings during the keynote panel session at Interop New York Thursday.

Early Enterprise Cloud Deployments Likely To Be Hybrid

Enterprise customers starting to use cloud services will also host applications and/or data on premises.

New DBA Tool Helps Companies Move to Azure Cloud

In conjunction with Microsoft’s launch announcement of Windows Azure at this week’s Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, Embarcadero Technologies released an Azure-related database administration tool.

Reaping the Benefits of RIA and SaaS

Rich Internet applications and their brainchild, software-as-a-service, are expensive to build. Today they represent the most challenging development process yet.

Q&A: Clouding Computing Challenges, Risks, and Rewards

Cloud computing has changed as high-speed connectivity has improved and virtualization adoption has grown. We explore the current state of the technology and where it's headed.

Disaster Recovery for Pennies on the Dollar

Symform positions itself as the most clever and affordable take on online disaster recovery to date.

IBM Launches Cloud-Based Desktop

New service will let business users login to their desktops from either a thin-client terminal or low-end PC

Seven Best Practices for Cloud Computing

If you are a CIO, business analyst, or project manager responsible for getting your enterprise to the cloud, read these tips before diving in.

Why Enterprise Clouds Are Inevitable

Cloud model is an inevitable consequence of pervasive virtualization -- call it applied virtualization with a business-centric focus.