Is Cloud the Answer for the CIOs and CFOs?

The Obama Administration has comprehensively embraced the notion of cloud computing in a bid to trim down federal cyber infrastructure costs and address the environmental impacts triggered by the US government computing...

Microsoft has today unveiled more details of Azure, its cloud computing platform that was announced back at the Professional Developers Conference in 2008 and is set to debut in November during PDC 2009 in Europe, US and...

The Government has asked all public sector bodies to make future IT purchases consistent with cloud computing so that it can move all its digital services into a private, secure 'cloud' called 'G-cloud' for government bodies.In...

Financial services firms are using cloud computing with increasing frequency but often forget to protect the software they invest in, a software security firm has said. It said its escrow services were as vital for remote as for...

(This article was written by Bilal Mehdi, Senior Consultant, Glasshouse Technologies (UK) Ltd reveals the top ten tips for getting the most out of cloud.) The buzz around Cloud computing continues to gather pace. Few are aware...

Ubuntu’s founder Mark Shuttleworth has disclosed that his company plans to release this Friday its Ubuntu Linux distribution version 9.10, tagged as “Karmic Koala”, which will feature enhanced compatibility for...

In a bid to take on the tech giants Microsoft and Google in the SaaS domain, IBM Corp. has announced the release of an online version of its signature Lotus software.  The new web-based service, tagged as...

This 5 page special report explains how to: 1. Enable your business to move to a cloud-based model of computing wherever and whenever you required it.2. Run any workload, from sub-second calculations to server applications to...

In a move aimed at beefing up its cloud computing offerings, Sun Microsystems has acquired the Belgian based cloud computing software provider Q-layer, for an undisclosed sum.  The privately held Q-layer is known for its...

Top executives from HP have expressed their reservations about jumping in to the cloud computing bandwagon and emphasised the need to remove the hype that surrounds the concept.  Expressing the company position on cloud...

IT Firm Alchemy Plus and Microsoft are coming together to build a £20 million "cloud computing" data centre that should be operational by the end of 2010 and which has been billed as the country's first eco-friendly data...

In this interview, Wayne Scott from Podcastvoices interviews Sajai Krishnan, CEO of Parascale on Cloud Computing and what the impact of this new paradigm could have on our lives. Sajai Krishnan drives overall strategy and...

Microsoft has always had a chequered relationship with bleeding edge Technology ever since the company was created and the fact it has announced that it is embracing Cloud Computing "fully", a concept that Microsoft was reluctant...

It is now official: Microsoft is taking cloud computing seriously as it announced the Azure Services Platform at the current Professional Developers Conference 2008 in Palermo, California. The project was officially unveiled by...

In its bid to take on Amazon Web Services, Rackspace Hosting Inc. has announced to acquire two companies, JungleDisk and Slicehost, for around USD 11.5 million, to augment its “cloud computing” offerings....