The Open Compute Project says it will turn its attention to developing open-standard network switches, news that won't be entirely welcome with makers of proprietary switches, especially Cisco.

Amazon Web Services is one of the few IT outfits that is willing to spend time at a conference keynote talking about pricing and what customers get for their money.

Some truly innovative applications were on display at Demo Mobile in San Francisco April 17. They offered some important lessons about how to come up with hot, new ideas.

IT Infrastructure vendors are falling all over themselves to slap the "software-defined" label on their products, even on their hardware.

Enterprises that are prepared to buy into HP's Moonshot server strategy need to learn a new language and be willing to take a new approach to data center design.

Facebook Home gives the company a leg up in the mobile space and relieves it of the burden of conjuring up another OS, developing hardware and building sales channels.