By: Andrew Kirch >> “A house, divided against itself, cannot stand.” -- A Lincoln IT Operations personnel, and software/hardware vendors have an ethical duty to protect our employer, and our users and take responsibility for network vulnerability Continue...

As OpenStack emerges as an important force in cloud computing infrastructure, I often see the comparison of OpenStack, the open source project, to Amazon’s Amazon Web Services (AWS). I’ve made that comparison myself. After speaking with RackSpace’s Joh Continue...

One of the things I enjoy most about trade shows is talking with the other attendees about what’s going on in their business.  At Cloud Expo, I had lunch with an IT manager from MetLife and learned how they’re rolling out an exciting automobile insuran Continue...

The results are in in from our 2011 cloud computing survey conducted with Cloud.com and Bitnami. The effort surveyed  over 500 IT professionals to determine the key IT objectives and inhibitors for cloud adoption. Here are a few of the areas covered: W Continue...

Call it hype, call it a revolution, or simply label it however best fits you and your organization. Regardless of where you might be on your journey to the Cloud, two things are evident: it's here to stay and annual expenditure worldwide is on a contin Continue...

With VMworld 2011 now in the rear-view, we all can get back to life as we knew it before the conference. However, in the post-conference light, VMworld attendees have some serious food for thought to mull over moving forward. At VMworld 2011, we conduc Continue...

Every Friday we like to highlight some of our favorite posts on Cloud Computing, service orientated infrastructure, DevOps, and anything else that grabbed our attention over the week. Here are some great articles from the week of August 29th that are w Continue...