The enterprise cloud seduction begins… Big Blue’s services division is looking to build bridges to the cloud for businesses that desire to capitalize on the benefits of this lofty form of computing. Lofty because while several cloud services have launched…
Force.com Free Edition: Starter Apps on the Cloud
Saleforce.com’s web application platform Force.com gets a free edition that’s meant to prime the pump for enterprises considering putting some apps up in the cloud. There are limits, of course, but at first glace it looks like it provides some…
UK CIOs Not Keen on Clouds
Cloud computing is getting a chilly reception among CIOs and CFOs in the U.K. according to a study conducted by Vanson Bourne for managed services provider NTT Europe. Of the 200 CIOs and CFOs at large businesses polled for the…
AT&T and EMC Team for Cloud Storage
The cloud services space got a little more crowded today as AT&T announced that the company will be tackling online storage with the help of EMC. AT&T Synaptic Storage as a Service is being pitched to enterprises as a way…
eTelemetry Intros Cloud Metering
Guess what’s new in eTelemetry’s Metron v. 2.1 release? Cloud Services Accounting, that’s what. Cloud Services Accounting (CSA), put simply, provides monitoring and reporting over the bandwidth consumed by cloud services. Why should your organization care? Well, if you’re seeing…
Microsoft Also Envisions Cloudy, Virtualized Future
Well, that didn’t take long. VMware made a splash last week by outlining its private cloud vision. Today, Microsoft got in on the act. During the Microsoft Management Summit this week, Microsoft reiterated the role of cloud computing and virtualization…
VMware Pursues Private Clouds with vSphere 4
While there is still a lot of work to be done in getting businesses to change their one-app-per-box ways, VMware is already looking at the horizon and chasing clouds. VMware unveiled vSphere 4, which the company is billing as the…
EcoRAM at the Heart of Virident's GreenCloud Servers
I mentioned Spansion’s EcoRAM in today’s Green IT roundup and became intrigued. Luckily, VentureBeat was there to satisfy my curiosity. EcoRAM, developed by startup Virident and built by Spansion, uses flash memory chips to replace dynamic random access memory and…
