Cloud Computing

Michael Capellas to lead Acadia data center joint venture

Former Compaq CEO will have overall responsibility for the Virtual Computing Environment coalition formed by EMC, Cisco, and VMware

Yet another Cloud startup with (genealogical) Java ties

Startup Cloud.com introduces open source IaaS software

Q&A: Cloud.com CMO Peder Ulander explains how CloudStack can help remove the complexity of building a public and private cloud infrastructure

Microsoft CIO talks cloud, economic rebound

Tony Scott says CIOs should prepare for big growth now that economic recovery is underway

Central Desktop adds simultaneous edits for Office docs

Users will be able to collaborate on Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files

Large companies save more with private clouds — sometimes

By going with in-house systems, larger companies can match the economies of scale that cloud computing service providers offer

Users are the largest cloud computing security threat

As IT focuses on refined encryption and identity management systems, it may be missing a big vulnerability: users

IBM buys data-integration vendor Cast Iron

The purchase will boost Big Blue's hand in hybrid cloud deployments

Red Hat drops Xen in favor of KVM in RHEL 6

Is the open source community backing away from supporting the Xen hypervisor in favor of the Linux kernel integrated KVM technology?

Google official reaffirms HTML5 readiness

Google engineer confirms Steve Jobs' pronouncement that HTML5 can be used for rich Web content