Console's cloud interconnect lets users link multiple providers

Console unveils a cloud interconnect service that offers a more secure and stable connection between multiple cloud providers. Continue Reading

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• Antone Gonsalves, Editor at Large

How to navigate the public cloud service provider selection process

Learn how to determine if your organization could benefit from public cloud storage and how to select the public cloud provider that will best meet your needs. Continue Reading

A look at the services the leading public cloud vendors provide

Examine the leading public cloud service providers and the features each offers, including backup and recovery, archival, hybrid cloud storage and cloud analytics. Continue Reading

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• Matthew Pascucci

Four criteria for evaluating public cloud storage providers

Prior to selecting a public cloud service provider, it's essential that you understand what each vendor offers and how their services can best meet your organization's needs. Continue Reading

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• Matthew Pascucci

Cloud cost management tips for working with multiple vendors

Using more than one cloud has its benefits, but can also get expensive. To manage costs, examine your providers' data access charges, as well as your application design. Continue Reading

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• Tom Nolle, Andover Intel

Avoid strapped IT budgets with cloud cost optimization

Many businesses expect cloud to be cheaper, but cost-efficiency is no guarantee. To reap cloud's financial rewards, devise a cost optimization plan. Continue Reading

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• Tom Nolle, Andover Intel

The new face of scale-out storage

There are plenty of new approaches to address ever-growing data needs, including scale-out vs. scale-up designs, the shift from hierarchical file systems to object storage, and the Hadoop Distributed File System. Pretty soon there will be absolutely no excuse not to store every crumb of data ever created.

Delivering Windows applications remotely is another area that could use some improvement, especially in today's age of tablets and mobile devices. App transformation takes existing Windows applications and intelligently delivers them to the target device, similar to how responsive web design principles package web pages differently depending on whether the client is a traditional PC, tablet or smartphone.

VMware, meanwhile seems to have hit a home run among users with its latest release to its venerable vSphere virtualization platform. Some things, it seems, get better with age.

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Setup complexity casts shadow on vRealize multi-cloud management

VMware's vRealize Suite enables companies to manage workloads from multiple public cloud providers, but concerns about deployment complexity have experts questioning its success. Continue Reading

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• Nick Martin, Senior Director of Content Strategy and Member Engagement

Trio of new VMware vCHS features revealed

VMware intends to disclose availability of three major services for vCHS next month -- welcome additions for VMware cloud customers. But industry watchers say the company needs to add much more to compete against AWS, Google and Microsoft. Continue Reading

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• Trevor Jones, Senior Site Editor

Dell's latest tactic centers on cloud broker service

Dell's upcoming cloud broker service is its latest in a string of cloud strategies. Will this one be the winner? Continue Reading

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• Trevor Jones, Senior Site Editor

Docker 1.0 the beginning of the end for virtualization?

Docker continues to steal the cloud spotlight with its latest lightweight release, but what does it mean for the future of heavyweight virtualization? Continue Reading

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• David Linthicum, Deloitte Consulting

Microsoft, Google claw for cloud market share with AWS

Amazon has dominated the early stages of cloud. With Microsoft and Google getting stronger, can AWS keep a stranglehold on the market in the future? Continue Reading

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• David Linthicum, Deloitte Consulting

OpenStack talk of open source town, but is it hype?

OpenStack garnered a lot of hype over the past four years, and many companies got behind the open source platform. Has it met the high expectations? Continue Reading

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• David Linthicum, Deloitte Consulting

Analyzing VMware vCHS for the cloud consumer

In direct competition with Amazon's IaaS, VMware vCloud Hybrid Service differentiates itself from the pack with several features. Continue Reading

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• Brad Maltz, Lumenate

Piecing together VMware's cloud strategy

Can VMware's lead in server virtualization translate to cloud supremacy? A bevy of challengers will make VMware's goal of bringing cloud to the enterprise a difficult one. Continue Reading

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• Steve Cimino

Top 10 cloud computing providers of 2011

Which cloud computing provider leads the pack? This top 10 list takes all the big names and ranks their impact on the cloud world. Continue Reading

Salesforce.com and CVM do supply-chain management in the cloud

Salesforce.com rolled out the red carpet for its collaboration with CVM Technology when it put the company's supply-chain management tool on Force.com. Continue Reading

Salesforce Chatter is officially live

Chatter, Salesforce.com's cloud-based social application, is now in general availability, but real-world reactions from users are mixed at best. Continue Reading

The Daily Cloud: Did Salesforce.com just become the biggest cloud computing company ever?

Marc Benioff is bragging about running the biggest enterprise cloud company on planet Earth. Is he telling the truth? Continue Reading