Cloud Computing and Cloud Storage - News, Trends and Analysis

64-Bit Computing: Whats in It for You

Peter Coffee | March 21, 2005

Polls of eSeminar attendees show gradual adoption for media and database tasks.

CanadaDrugs.com Opts for Open-Source Clustering

Lisa Vaas | March 21, 2005

One of Canada's largest online drugstores turned to Emic's EAC clustering to handle multiple MySQL databases, a growing workforce and the rising tide of U.S. citizens seeking lower-cost drugs.

Green Reaching for Larger Businesses

Dennis Callaghan | March 21, 2005

Microsoft's Project Green will include embedded BI, SharePoint collaboration capabilities, and a unified code base to attract enterprise customers.

Business Analysis Tools Gaining in Visualization

Dennis Callaghan | March 18, 2005

Several startups are leading a new charge to ease enterprise data analysis with visualization tools that allow nontechnical users to glean valuable information from business data.

Veritas Adds Solaris 10 Support to Storage Line

Karen Schwartz | March 16, 2005

Citing customer demand, the company says it has revamped its Storage Foundation, Volume Replicator and Cluster Server to include full support for Solaris 10.

Prepare for a 64-Bit Future

Jeff Burt | March 14, 2005

64-bit computing is coming to the desktop, driven by increasing consumer and enterprise demand for lower-priced computing power, experts say.

Blue Gene Powers IBMs Newest Supercomputer Center

Jeff Burt | March 11, 2005

IBM opens up its fourth Deep Computing Capacity on Demand Center, this one offering access on a pay-per-use basis to its Blue Gene supercomputer.

Storage Vendors Roll Out New Hardware, Management Wares

Brian Fonseca | March 11, 2005

At CeBIT, Cisco Systems, Hitachi Data Systems and EMC take the wraps off new storage systems, software and services to help customers squeeze more from their storage infrastructure.

Project Green Could Pave Way for Microsoft Apps On-Demand

Dennis Callaghan | March 09, 2005

Hosted applications services from Microsoft could soon follow business applications' move to a componentized model on a services-oriented architecture.

Apps Ease VOIP Management

Caron Carlson | March 07, 2005

Voice-over-IP software from BroadSoft and AccessLine stress simplicity and flexibility.

Data Thefts Reveal Storage Flaws

Brian Fonseca | March 07, 2005

Recent high-profile thefts of sensitive data have enterprise IT executives looking hard at the relationships among storage, backup and security.

Recent Advances Boost System Virtualization

Daniel Dern | March 04, 2005

News analysis: System virtualization has had several boosts in the past few weeks, thanks to companies such as IBM, XenSource, Virtual Iron and Intel.