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  • Where Cloud goes next

    It's difficult to define what the "Cloud of tomorrow" will look like because of all the changes happening in the IT industry - changes to fundamental application architecture, service models and interactions between components. The Cloud continues to disrupt IT in new ways so predicting tomorrow is a perpetual moving target.

    Written by John Considine • 11 June 13 15:10

  • Opinion: IT is about to meet the Amazon Effect

    IT upheaval is inevitable -- like it or not.

    Written by Steve Duplessie • 05 June 13 11:54
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    Exclusive research: IT commits to cloud computing

    Cloud budgets are rising as IT confronts security and ROI challenges, according to the 2013 Cloud Computing Survey from IDG Enterprise (free download). (Insider: Registration required)

    Written by Computerworld Staff • 04 June 13 16:40

  • Salesforce.com aims for next $1 billion business with ExactTarget buy

    Salesforce.com's pending US$2.5 billion purchase of marketing software vendor ExactTarget will help it develop a new $1 billion annual revenue stream and set the company on a clear strategic course for the foreseeable future, according to Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 04 June 13 15:58

  • Dual persona smartphones non grata at Starz

    Among several BYOD strategies Starz has tried over the past five years, dual persona smartphones -- offering employees a business and personal interface -- took off like a lead balloon.

    Written by Lucas Mearian • 04 June 13 10:18

  • How to build a private cloud

    A private Cloud looks and acts like a public Cloud, giving your corporation all the speed, agility and cost savings promised by Cloud technology, only it's single-tenant, and that tenant is you, right? Well, that's the goal, but it's not quite the reality yet for most enterprises.

    Written by Christine Burns • 03 June 13 11:17

  • 5 tips for avoiding private cloud failures

    According to Piston Cloud Computing's CTO, the rate at which his customer's pilot projects turn into production private clouds is pretty typical of most OpenStack-based providers – and it's pretty low.

    Written by Christine Burns • 03 June 13 11:17

  • Stack wars: OpenStack v. CloudStack v. Eucalyptus

    OpenStack -- co-founded by Rackspace and NASA in 2010 -- certainly has the buzz, what with partnerships with AT&T, HP and IBM, to name a few, all of which have promised to use OpenStack as the base for their private cloud offerings.

    Written by Christine Burns • 03 June 13 11:17
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    The hidden dark side of today's hottest tech trends

    New technologies and new IT strategies are here to solve all your problems -- except the ones they create

    Written by Peter Wayner • 28 May 13 10:09

  • Box Offers User-Friendly File-Sharing, But Faces Big Competition

    The cloud storage service is an intuitive collaboration tool and has IT-friendly features. However, it's in a crowded, competitive market that includes Microsoft.

    Written by Juan Carlos Perez • 27 May 13 19:02

  • Google's next act: Diversify and conquer

    Center stage at this year's Google I/O was a company honing its vision for a future beyond search

    Written by Serdar Yegulalp • 20 May 13 13:53

  • IT's new concern: The personal Cloud

    As personal and professional Clouds converge, IT's mission to improve productivity while protecting corporate apps and data is getting tougher.

    Written by Robert L. Mitchell • 20 May 13 10:14

  • What to expect at SAP's Sapphire

    SAP's Sapphire conference kicks off next week in Orlando, setting the stage for the company to sell customers on its visions for cloud-based applications, in-memory computing and mobility.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 09 May 13 17:32

  • What the man behind HP's new internal IT plan has in mind

    As someone who spent billions with HP over 20 years while in IT leadership roles at Boeing and Verizon Wireless, John Hinshaw knew the big hardware, software and services company from the outside as well as anyone. In the year-and-a-half since becoming executive vice-president of technology and operations at HP, he's been putting that knowledge to use on the inside.

    Written by Bob Brown • 23 April 13 15:06

  • Why developers are turning to API services

    As application development increasingly hooks into outside services, tools to manage all those APIs are sprouting up

    Written by Paul Krill • 23 April 13 10:18

  • Squeezing savings from the Cloud

    Calculating the real ROI of Cloud apps requires the analysis of a lot of factors, and cutting corners on that process means you might not save money.

    Written by Nancy Gohring • 22 April 13 10:05

  • SAP's first quarter: The key questions

    SAP will announce its first-quarter 2013 earnings on Friday, a report that will get heavy scrutiny from company watchers. Here's a look at some of the more important topics that should come up during SAP executives' conference calls with press and analysts on Friday.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 18 April 13 14:57

  • Cloud tools abound. Is enterprise IT ready?

    The sky is the limit for both the number and the types of tools that will eventually help enterprise IT fully embrace the cloud, say industry analysts and cloud integration experts.

    Written by Christine Burns • 08 April 13 11:00

  • Top 10 Cloud tools

    Cloud vendors are delivering boatloads of new tools to help enterprise IT build, buy, manage, monitor, tweak and track Cloud services. These tools are designed to help IT execs free up their budgets and their staff so both can be used towards more strategic, line of business projects.

    Written by Christine Burns • 08 April 13 11:00

  • Oracle's strategies to get real-world verdict at Collaborate user event

    Oracle's sprawling annual OpenWorld conference doesn't kick off until September, but next week the Oracle user group-backed Collaborate event will be held in Denver.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 04 April 13 20:55
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