Charles Babcock

NIST, IEEE Team Up to Drive Cloud Interoperability

August 01, 2017

Two major standards bodies aim to make workloads and services mobile across clouds.

Unity Rules As OCI Launches 1.0 Container Spec

July 19, 2017

Open Container Initiative releases image specification and runtime spec for vendors and container users.

LinkedIn Leads Standardized Cloud Gear Alliance

May 25, 2017

A group of major backers formed the Project19 Foundation to support standardized gear and networking across cloud data centers.

Cisco DevNet Preps IT For Programmable Networks

May 19, 2017

At Interop ITX, Cisco's Susie Wee provided an update on the company's DevNet program.

Data Center Efficiency Key to Outsourcing Cost

March 02, 2017

When shopping for a co-location provider or cloud supplier, evaluate PUE ratings to gauge long-term costs.

Containers May Work With, Or In Place Of, Private Cloud

February 21, 2017

Analyst report sees an the uneasy alliance between OpenStack and container software.

Private Cloud In Retreat, Public Cloud To Fore

January 19, 2017

'2017 State of Cloud' report finds private cloud losing its viability and hybrid cloud too complex; public cloud use advancing.

451 Research: Containers A $2.7 Billion Market By 2020

January 12, 2017

Report reveals that containers are the fast-growing part of the cloud technologies market.

Killing 'Zombies' For Data Center Efficiency

December 30, 2016

The Uptime Institute has estimated the gains from eliminating 'zombie' servers versus doing nothing.

Cisco: Cloud-Native Apps Will Dominate By 2020

November 14, 2016

Big data, IoT, and other applications are changing cloud computing, according to Cisco's sixth annual Global Cloud Computing Index.

AWS, VMware Pact Eases Hybrid Cloud Adoption

October 20, 2016

AWS and VMware have struck a deal that improves workload transfers between their environments.

Gartner's Integration Magic Quadrant: Atlantis, Pivot3 On The Move

October 14, 2016

Young startups and seasoned seven-year-olds are moving into Gartner's Magic Quadrant on Integrated Systems

Cloud IT Infrastructure Spending Continues To Climb

October 12, 2016

IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Forecast nudges total IT budget spent on cloud to 36.9% in 2016.

Hyperconverged Infrastructure Is Now A Data Center Mainstay

October 05, 2016

451 Research finds that 40% of enterprises report that hyperconverged infrastructure occupies the core of the data center.

VMware Customers Weigh In On Cross-Cloud, vCloudAir