Cloud vendors are delivering boatloads of new tools to help enterprise IT build, buy, manage, monitor, tweak and track cloud services. These tools are designed to help IT execs free up their budgets and their staff so both can be used towards more st...
Challengers to Amazon's dominance in public cloud services face an uphill battle
OpenStack has the buzz, CloudStack has the bucks, Eucalyptus has the bonds with Amazon
Service providers, start-ups, integrators and established vendors offer broad range of management tools. But enterprises might not be ready to implement complex orchestration and automation systems.
Users say hybrid security requires diligence, defense in depth
Hybrid clouds, cloud brokers, big data and software-defined networking (SDN) predicted to be the major trends in cloud computing in 2013.