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- Data Center Optimization: Federal agencies must increase server utilization and energy efficiency as they squeeze more computer processing into fewer data centers. We explore how the Army, Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs and others are doing that.
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Zynga Regroups In Quest For Profit
January 03, 2013
Online game maker confirms it eliminated 11 underperforming titles, aims to shore up stock price in 2013.
5 Data Center Trends For 2013
January 02, 2013
Energy efficiency will continue to be a major focus of data center operations over the coming year, but that's not all we'll see.
Red Hat Buys ManageIQ, Gains Hybrid Cloud Tools
December 21, 2012
Red Hat will pay $104 million to fill out self-provisioning and performance management for its virtualization environment, get multi-hypervisor capability.
CloudVelocity Seeks To Champion Enterprise Hybrid Cloud
December 20, 2012
Startup maps out applications, creates clones and moves them to cloud data center.
Cloud Computing: Best And Worst News Of 2012
December 19, 2012
What were the key developments for enterprise cloud computing this year? Let's look at four big wins -- and three setbacks.
Bromium Secures Older PCs, Terminals Via 'Microvisor'
December 17, 2012
CTO Simon Crosby says goal is to isolate untrusted tasks on Windows XP machines, thin clients as users bring outside code and content inside the enterprise.
CA's New CEO Faces Big Balancing Act
December 14, 2012
Michael Gregoire expected to set a more entrepreneurial style as CA continues transition from mainframe products to cloud and virtual systems.
Intel Launches Low Power Atom To Counter ARM
December 12, 2012
Intel offers 6-watt chip for data centers to beat back Calxeda, other ARM designers using mobile chips to build servers.
Red Hat Speeds Up Open Source Virtualization Race
December 11, 2012
KVM-based Enterprise Virtualization 3.1 enables extra-large virtual machines and better live migration across more storage systems than before.
Amazon Details Cloud Bills By The Hour
December 11, 2012
AWS uses operational data to deposit hourly usage information in a customer's S3 storage account. Customers can request alerts when thresholds are crossed.
Savvis Cloud Storage Takes On Amazon, Google
December 10, 2012
Savvis Symphony Cloud Storage marries data center management expertise with CenturyLink's networking savvy to simplify data replication and increase disaster recovery reliability.
Why Amazon's Cloud Business Is Like Kindle Sales
December 07, 2012
Amazon Web Services is cheap upfront, and Amazon only gets paid if people keep using it, CEO Bezos says.
EMC, VMware Team To Woo Cloud Developers
December 05, 2012
Can Pivotal Initiative partnership successfully merge scattered open source code with proprietary code for next-gen cloud apps?
Salesforce: Every Developer A SaaS Vendor
December 04, 2012
Salesforce.com's Heroku unit is making it easier for Salesforce app developers to become SaaS vendors on their own.
VMware Launches Software-Defined Data Center
December 03, 2012
VCloud Suite 5.1 combines three key VMware products to create an early version of a software-defined data center.
Google Counters Amazon's Storage Price Cuts
November 30, 2012
Google cut storage prices by 20% at start of week, and then slashed another 10% in response to Amazon's price drops. Is there a storage price war going on in the cloud?
Amazon's Vogels Challenges IT: Rethink App Dev
November 30, 2012
Amazon Web Services CTO says promised land of cloud computing requires a new generation of applications that follow different principles.
Amazon Web Services Slashes Storage Prices
November 29, 2012
At its first developers conference, Re:Invent, Amazon features customers like Netflix and NASDAQ and disses its software firm rivals.
Salesforce.com Wants Developers To Think Big
November 28, 2012
With Identity and Canvas plans, Salesforce can begin to provide services to enterprise applications that were thought to have been totally separate from CRM.
Red Hat Unwraps OpenShift Enterprise At Amazon Event
November 27, 2012
Red Hat broadens its open source cloud development platform, which increasingly competes with VMware's Spring and Cloud Foundry.
10 Cloud Computing Pioneers
November 26, 2012
Cloud computing has rewritten decades of technology rules. Take a closer look at 10 innovators who helped make it possible.
Google Adds Cloud Infrastructure Muscle Vs. Amazon
November 26, 2012
Google Compute Engine's first major upgrade adds 36 server instances to its cloud catalog, cuts prices to become more competitive.
Joyent Gets New CEO, Preps Cloud Tools
November 21, 2012
Henry Wasik joins Joyent from Dell, where he lead networking unit; cloud software gets upgrade in early 2013.
Hurricane Sandy Lesson: VM Migration Can Stop Outages
November 16, 2012
When a hurricane or other disaster threatens, why not just move critical systems out of the way? It can be done -- but not at the last minute.
Microsoft's Ballmer Touts Tablets, Phone, Cloud
November 15, 2012
Microsoft CEO discusses strategy to compete on multiple fronts: enterprise IT, consumer devices and application software.