The public cloud presents new opportunities and challenges for IT. Applications and services can be spun up on demand, relieving IT of provisioning and maintenance burdens. But IT is still on the hook for security, service level management, identity and authentication, and more. Our Public Cloud Tech Center delivers strategies, best practices, emerging technology and the latest IT-based research to help guide you through the provider claims, business demands and technology challenges that come with SaaS, IaaS and more.
News and Analysis
Ellison Ditches OpenWorld Keynote For America's Cup
Oracle CEO's no-show disappoints conference attendees expecting to hear about the company's cloud services.
EMC CEO Talks Up The Software-Defined Data Center
Joe Tucci tells OpenWorld crowd how EMC plans to capitalize on cloud computing and big data trends.
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Blogs
Data Protection In The Cloud Era
September 18, 2013 02:06 PM
Posted by Tom Trainer
Organizations need to review security policies and procedures before implementing newer technologies such as cloud computing and virtualization.
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WAN Acceleration Slows Down
September 09, 2013 10:57 AM
Posted by Greg Ferro
A new report shows the WAN acceleration/optimization market is shrinking. WAN optimization won't go away, but don't look for growth either.
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IT Must Change Business Minds
September 03, 2013 11:36 AM
Posted by Romi Mahajan
IT must change mistaken perceptions about its value to and role in the enterprise. Here's advice on how to get started.
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Should Applications Listen To The Network?
August 29, 2013 11:35 AM
Posted by Tom Hollingsworth
One goal of SDN is to make the network more responsive to application needs. But applications also have to be responsive to the state of the network.
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Cumulus Networks: The Pros and Cons of Decoupling
August 26, 2013 05:11 PM
Posted by Greg Ferro
Startup Cumulus Networks makes a compelling argument for separating network software and hardware, but the case isn't closed.
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New Technologies Target OpenStack Private Clouds
August 16, 2013 02:05 PM
Posted by Tom Trainer
Companies like Druva aim to address data center and private cloud storage and data management challenges using the OpenStack framework.
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