SOURCE: VMware In one of Silicon Valley's biggest real estate deals in years, cloud-computing pioneer VMware confirmed Wednesday that it's expanding its headquarters in the Stanford Research Park, taking over an adjacent 1 million square feet of building space left...
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May 24, 2011
A survey of public sector IT professionals in the federal government, that was released on Monday, reveals that only 6.9 percent of those surveyed think that accessing IT resources from a public cloud service is a viable strategy, while a vast majority of 68 percent...
May 23, 2011
SOURCE:Â IDG Software AG has entered into an agreement to acquire Terracotta, which will allow the software vendor to develop more advanced cloud services and increase the performance and scalability of its business software management tools using Terracotta's...
May 20, 2011
Businesses taking their first tentative steps into cloud computing could face "huge" data security risks, HP has suggested. The comments follow a consultation by the European Union into how best to implement the new technology. It identified the potential cost savings...
May 20, 2011
Cloud computing and virtualization are forcing dramatic changes in the way data centers must be designed and run, from the servers to the storage to the network infrastructure. The benefits are clear. With these physical resources abstracted from the underlying...
May 18, 2011
A battle to set the model for cloud infrastructure is raging, according to Jim Whitehurst, president and CEO of Red Hat (NYSE: RHT). "We're at a fork in the road," Whitehurst told a packed room of more than 200 people at the Open Source Business Conference Monday....
May 16, 2011
One of the biggest announcements to come out of this week's Google I/O conference was the launch of the long-awaited Google Music service. It lets users upload their song libraries to a cloud locker, then stream music to a variety of different devices. However,...
May 13, 2011
The ideal storage solution for bio-research must deliver capacity, speed, manageability, scalability, and security. Scale-out storage from Isilon does just that. Download this white paper and learn how Isilon scale-out storage solutions increase the productivity of...
May 12, 2011
Desktop virtualization (DV) is a big technology trend, but despite the number of approaches taken by entrants to this new market, there are few solutions that are well suited for use in the cloud. Take for example, the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) approach,...
May 12, 2011
A panel of cloud computing advocates met the issue of the recent Amazon Web Services and Sony Playstation Network outages head on Wednesday at Interop 2011 in Las Vegas, a UBM TechWeb event. In the hallways, meeting rooms, and watering holes of the Mandalay Bay...
