Cloud Computing

The Black Swan of the MPLS business

WAN Virtualization used by Cloud Services Providers, IT outsourcers a boon to enterprises, a threat to telecom SPs

Microsoft’s Yammer buy raises questions about NewsGator’s future

Yammer is a competitor to NewsGator's Social Sites, an enterprise social collaboration add-on for SharePoint

Seven practical steps to help you run your on-premise cloud like a business

Survey: Tell us about your data center disasters (and how you avoid them)

Network World and SolarWinds want to hear how you’re dealing with business continuity and disaster recovery.

HP cloud plans focus on open source, management

HP's Converged Cloud model will depend on interoperability with hardware from other vendors

Universal key management for the cloud

Google launches IaaS Compute Engine

The Google Compute Engine will offer Linux virtual machines

Cloud adoption pushes storage virtualization

Enterprises and cloud providers look to storage hypervisors to ease data management

Microsoft releases Office 365 for Education

The cloud suite replaces Live@edu, so existing customers need to start planning their migrations

Federal tech outlook: Cloudy with a chance of information assurance

Two new initiatives may help the federal government warm up to the cloud and information assurance.