It may not yet be generally available, but Facebook at Work is a quickly evolving solution that will change how enterprises think…
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Cloud options mean decisions, decisions for IT buyers
Much has been written about cloud consolidation, with M&A roiling the cloudscape over the past few months: Cisco bought Metacloud, EMC bought Cloudscaling, HP snapped up…
Read MoreIntel will offer a customizable chip to keep data center clients happy
To ensure that ARM or other alternative architectures don't gain ground in the data center, Intel is launching a customizable chip that marries its Xeon CPUs with an FPGA.…
Read MoreCenturyLink starts airlifting managed services to its new cloud
With CenturyLink's new managed services deployment model customers can pay for things like Active Directory, RHEL, and SQL Server by the hour.…
Read MoreMetacloud snags two Rackspace evangelists for its private OpenStack cloud push
Scott Sanchez and Niki Acosta, both well known in the OpenStack universe, jump from one OpenStack backer to another.…
Read MoreNo rest for the weary: Amazon launches new SSD-backed block storage
Don't like your cloud provider's block storage options? Well, you're in luck because it's likely that Google or Amazon (or Microsoft?) will have a deal for you.…
Read MoreVirtustream pushes toward dual OpenStack-VMware cloud management
Enterprise cloud purveyor Virtustream is bringing OpenStack to parity with vCenter/ESX in its latest xStream cloud management release.…
Read MoreApple, Cisco, AT&T join Microsoft in fight against global search warrant
Apple, Cisco and AT&T have joined Verizon and the Electronic Frontier Foundation in supporting Microsoft's attempt to quash a U.S. search warrant seeking email data about an Irish customer stored on Irish servers.…
Read MoreOne certainty in all this cloud confusion: the fight is on
The week in cloud: Amazon and VMware (and HP and Microsoft and Red Hat and Rackspace) square off to win more cloud workloads.…
Read MoreA sneak peek at Structure from the people who’ll be asking the questions
On this weeks Structure Show podcast, Barb Darrow, Stacey Higginbotham and I talk about which speaker and topics have us mosted excited about this weeks Structure conference. Needless to say, theres a lot to like about it.…
Read MoreMicrosoft scrambles for IPv4 addresses for US users
It really is time to move to IPv6 if even Microsoft can't dredge up any more U.S. IPv4 addresses.…
Read MoreWith billions of devices coming online, cloud providers better get with IPv6 program
AWS, Google, Microsoft et al. have a huge appetite for unique IP addresses, but except for Amazon's ELB, they don't support IPv6. Expect that to change in the near future.…
Read MoreWant the latest on what’s hot in IT (and IoT) infrastructure? Listen up.
On this week's podcast we talk infrastructure -- and what next-gen startups will need to fuel their grand plans. All of which is on the agenda for Structure 2014 next week.…
Read MoreTick, tock. Structure’s almost here, and here’s why you need to be there
It's been months in the making and now it's (nearly) here. You shouldn't miss Gigaom's Structure 2014, which kicks off June 18 in San Francisco.…
Read MoreIBM beefs up its federal cloud effort with new data centers
Two new IBM SoftLayer cloud data centers, one in Dallas, one in Ashburn, Virg., will be added to IBM's roster later this year.…
Read MoreHP calls in the cavalry for OpenStack cloud confederation
Hewlett-Packard will rely on a network of service provider and data center partners to give the HP Helion Network scale to compete with massive cloud powers.…
Read MorePivotal adds new enterprise-y features to its Cloud Foundry implementation
At the Pivotal Summit, company trots out new dashboards and a way to achieve better redundancy for its version of Cloud Foundry.…
Read MoreWarning: the threat from Zeus malware continues after crackdown
Despite last week's crackdown on Gameover Zeus perpetrators, the threat posed by attackers armed with the Zeus framework continues, according to security firm Prolexic.…
Read MoreMirantis to offer on-demand OpenStack private cloud
In a bid to speed enterprise adoption, Mirantis OpenStack Express claims to offer private cloud as a service that's easy to deploy and consume.…
Read MoreMesosphere raises $10.5M to push virtualization à la Google
Inspired by Google's famous approach to resource management, Apache Mesos is the open source software that manages the large pools of servers and cloud instances at companies such as Twitter and Airbnb. Mesosphere, a company trying to commercialize it, has raised $12.75 million since launching.…
Read MoreFeds give Amazon cloud the nod for Obamacare application
The week in cloud: Feds tell insurers it's okay to use Amazon Web Services for their Obamacare workloads; and it's time to gear up for Structure!…
Read MoreWhy we need to stop freaking out about the NSA and get on with business
Common sense: IBM's cloud chief Lance Crosby thinks companies should focus on securing their data from everyone, not just nosy intelligence agencies.…
Read MoreCode On vows to dramatically speed up Wi-Fi, cell, satellite transmissions — with math
The seventh Structure Launchpad finalist says Random Linear Network Coding can break the logjam clogging up our wireless connections.…
Read MoreIBM’s Lance Crosby: To glimpse the future of cloud, check out the banking industry
On this week's Structure Show, the exec in charge of IBM's massive cloud effort updates us on how that's going and why you'd be silly to underestimate Big Blue when it comes to cloud.…
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