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Microsoft announced this week a new line of its StorSimple appliances that link on-premises datacenters to the Azure cloud.
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Complicated pricing, hidden costs and performance problems are main culprits.
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Research shows VMware, Amazon AWS lead in private, public arenas.
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Containers are a lightweight means to develop, ship and run distributed applications on different platforms.
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It's a next-generation "catalyst for enterprise innovation."
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Survey shows IT and security pros wary of potentially expensive cloud data breaches.
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X-as-a-service offerings include counter fraud, digital commerce, mobile, analytics and more.
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Cloud-based marketplace service also offers social collaboration.
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By Scott D. Lowe
Looking to make a move? Be sure to evaluate all the pros and the cons of cloud storage providers.
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Hybrid Cloud solution and Elastic Cloud Storage Appliance announced.
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Startup announces $9 million in funding and plan to apply SDN technology to networks serving distributed locations.
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Details emerge on the Power architecture IBM plan to use to beef up the cloud service it acquired last year.
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Hadoop connectors are now available for Google Cloud Storage, BigQuery and Cloud Datastore.
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Primary new featues include tighter platform integration, single sign-on support, discoverability and the capability for rolling upgrades.
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SAP plays catch-up to competitors by moving key products such as its HANA in-memory database to cloud-based subscription services.
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Cloud-based services are just one of the many options IT has when crafting their storage architecture.
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Networking and hardware giant Cisco Systems Inc. this week announced it was investing $1 billion to expand its cloud business by developing an "intercloud" -- a network of clouds.
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Continuuity Inc. recently announced it was open sourcing its Loom software used to manage Big Data clusters in the cloud.
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Some major investors this week infused Cloudera with $160 million in funding, much of which the company said will be used to invest in engineering resources to extend its Apache Hadoop community contributions.
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To generate interest in its enterprise-class Watson supercomputer platform now being offered as a service, IBM is encouraging mobile app developers to harness its "cognitive computing" power in a developer challenge contest.
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These three trends will play a role in deciding which applications are the best candidates for the cloud.
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With budgets under scrutiny, cloud computing may offer a strong ROI -- but only if you calculate costs properly.
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What IT should do to secure data in the cloud.
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IT must rethink and, in some cases, rearchitect its environment to fully embrace what cloud has to offer.
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We look at impact of mobile, cloud, big data, and social media on IT in 2012 and how the technologies will be important in 2013.