Cloud Computing

2011: When cloud computing shook the data center

In a year of surging private cloud activity and major build-outs in public cloud capacity, the cloud's promised simplification remains elusive

12 IT Outsourcing Predictions for 2012

RightNow shareholders approve US$1.5 billion sale to Oracle

Oracle moves closer to gaining a range of "customer experience management" software to battle Salesforce.com

Data center, cloud fabrics to heat up in 2012

Real world implementations driven by 10G servers, 40G networks, will emerge

Andrew Miller: Polycom will drive the next era of collaboration

Polycom's CEO talks about the impact of mobility on the visual communications market and about Polycom's move to the cloud

Plans to migrate LAPD to Google’s cloud apps dropped

Service is incompatible with FBI's security requirements, city says

2012: Virtual desktops are all the rage

Days of tactical deployments of virtualization are done; be strategic

Looking back to our 2011 predictions — how’d we do?

Oracle Q2 net income jumps 17 percent, but hardware sales slump

Still, sales of Oracle's specialized hardware-software appliances grew rapidly in the quarter, according to CEO Larry Ellison

SAP, Google gearing up Google Apps, Business ByDesign integration

Some of the finer details still need to be ironed out