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HP began its OpenStack-based Cloud Services this month, and there is a lot of promise but not much in the way of actual implementation yet. HP intends its cloud to

Heroku, the platform-as-a-service provider that Salesforce.com acquired last year, has added Node.js to its existing Ruby offering as part of its new public beta called Celadon Cedar. Other new

Let's take a meeting. Somewhere. Most of us hate going to meetings, and the promise of the Internet is that you can meet virtually in a chat room or using

A recent report from Gartner details a spike the firm observed in the number of search queries for the term "PaaS" from users of its website. Independent researcher Louis

Facebook is working a new dashboard for developers to gain better insights about their Facebook applications, it was revealed during a Tech Talk at the company's Seattle office this

Channelinsight has announced the latest in its SaaS-based CRM-add on tools, this one called Lead to Ship Opportunity Management for the Channel, and will be demonstrating it at the end

This Week in Cloud Computing featured our very own Klint Finley as a guest in the last episode. It seemed like the right time to give credit to this show

The digital marketing agency AKQA had a problem. With 900 employees scattered across the globe, to say nothing about the clients, collaboration could be a problem. Document revisions and

Virtualization is now viewed as viable for companies of all sizes. VMware leads the market by a longshot but there are a number of vendors to choose from. PCWorld compared

Cloud management company Appirio, seeing that most surveys on the subject of cloud computing focused on the industry as a whole, sponsored a survey of public cloud early adopters

Today, business survival depends on IT innovation. Enterprise cloud computing presents CIOs with tremendous opportunities to deliver that innovation--by thinking like CEOs in order to play a strategic role in

It's almost impossible to believe now, but when Microsoft premiered its Windows Azure service back in October 2008, there was genuine speculation over whether the company would try to muscle

Another Earth Hour has passed by this weekend. Electrical systems across the globe were shut down to observe, for an hour, that energy is precious. In this moment, we also

You could say there is no right way to design and build a Web site – but you'll find plenty of wrong ways. KISSmetrics outlines eight of them with an

With some help from Intel, Joyent is announcing it is the first cloud computing service to launch in mainland China. Joyent is working with Intel and the Qinhuangdao Economic and

If your organization runs large business-critical database applications on expensive UNIX RISC systems, you may have felt stuck. Even as the percentage of enterprise workloads running on virtualized servers has

Come on over folks, step right up. We've got a show for you today. It's called The Cloud. Yes, The Cloud and it is the single greatest most amazing invention

At the RSA Keynote a few weeks back, Amazon's Security Lead, Steve Riley participated on a panel with other security leaders of the industry. We were impressed with the openness

Workplace micro-messaging service Yammer introduced a very interesting new feature today: leaderboards. Organizations using Yammer will now be able to easily discover their top members, best posts and most heavily

With Citrix escalating its fight against VMware, and VMware expanding its arsenal, it's worth taking a look at the current state of the virtualization market. Gartner has published its Magic

The value of data center virtualization continues to grow. In this solution brief, we explore how VMware vSphere 5.0 running on the Intel Xeon processor E7 family delivers world-record virtualization

With the definition of "application" in the enterprise changing very rapidly from something that is not just "as a service," but is a service, the concept of performance monitoring changes

If customers won't come to Rackspace, then Rackspace will simply have to go to the customers. Rackspace announced today that it's going to be offering a "private edition" of OpenStack

Today Google announced a new service based on technology from its Postini acquisition: Google Message Continuity. "Google Message Continuity works by replicating email accounts hosted on Microsoft Exchange Servers

Chittenden Bank started developing its plan to double the size of its presence in Vermont and came across the challenge of how the enterprise would be affected by the expansion.