Many of you are likely familiar with the large hosting provider promising Fanatical Support® - and if youve used them, you know they deliver on that promise. In fact, as an industry, hosting provider...

Given all the hype SaaS (software as a service) has garnered, you might be inclined to think every category of software will be delivered predominantly from the cloud at some point. Not so, says a new...

Providing a vital link between internal and external clouds, VMware plans to release in March an adapter for moving virtual machines between a hosted service offering and an organization's own interna...

Microsoft's Office 365 promises to bundle desktop and cloud software for a monthly fee -- a little bit of something old and something new. But there's a twist that may surprise you.

Cloud to shrink channel: Frost SullivanRegisterThe cloud-computing boom is bad news for channel organizations, according to analyst firm Frost Sullivan. At a media trends briefing in Sydney yesterda...

Is your data center ready to handle traffic on your busiest day? That’s the challenge facing retailers with seasonal business, where huge sales may be concentrated into a narrow time window. A good...

Image via CrunchBase With apologies to Zanussi for the corny title, I had an interesting conversation with Axcient CEO Justin Moore and HP’s VP for Channel Strategy SMB Meaghan Kelly about the is...

Businesses, large and small, are migrating to the cloud in order to compete but may find themselves eventually moving to private clouds for the security and ultimate cost savings

by Tien Tzuo For the last three years, I’ve been talking and writing about the coming Subscription Economy to everyone from straight-up believers to willful converts to absolute naysayers. We’ve...

Guest post by Nalneesh Gaur Nick Carr’s controversial article on “IT doesn’t matter” published in 2003 noted that infrastructure technology is easily copied thus providing no competitive adva...

Do you really need a firewall to secure web and application services? Some organizations would say no based on their experiences while others are sure to quail at the very thought of such an unnatural...

Posted by jennitaLet me tell you a tale of an unexpected case study on the value of a tweet on a page's ranking and traffic. This tale will mostly be told using graphics, as the images tell the story...

Here is some good news. According to a new forecast from Forrester, global tech spending will rise 7.1 percent in 2011 to $1.7 trillion, according to new forecast data from Forrester....

If you’ve been avoiding HTML5 because its specification is a draft document, you’ll be pleased to hear the W3C has announced a completion date. Mark July 2014 in your diary as the date HTML5 will...

It can be difficult for organizations to see the strategic big picture when it comes to social media, especially if they are focusing all their energy on tools and tactics. Questions a...

Hot on the heels of two recent device launches from INQ and HTC, with both companies adding Facebook integration and (in the case of HTC’s Salsa and ChaCha) a physical Facebook button to their sm...

The history of collaboration is the subject of another infographic from Socialcast. A previous infographic the company did late last year explored how to measure the effectiveness of social technolo...

Appcelerator, the makers of the mobile development framework Titanium, announced a partnership with Ruby on Rails platform-as-a-service provider Engine Yard today. Engine Yard developers will be abl...

Cloud services enablement leader, Parallels, today announced the finalists in its Second Annual Partner Awards. Winners will be revealed at the... Read more at VMblog.com.

Comments from IBM’s PartnerWorld 2011 in Orlando