Desktops are diversifying. Long after we all collectively moved off of the traditional desk desktop (i.e the mostly wooden one, where you might still keep your coffee, spectacles and pens these days), ...

­Amazon’s “Virtual Private Cloud,” a cloud computing offering that is more secure than the company’s previous services, is now available to the general public in an open beta trial. Amazon unveiled ...

Nutanix’s AOS 6 enables enterprises to build virtual private clouds, while Era update eases data-management software for hybrid and multicloud environments. Nutanix is releasing enhancements to its ...

The new service is intended to allow customers to create logically isolated sets of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instances and connect them to their existing networks. James Urquhart is a field ...

After months of prep, Novell on Monday officially made available Cloud Manager, its cloud computing creation and management tool, a product the Waltham, Mass.-based company said will help cloud ...

The combination of Ubuntu and OpenStack for deploying private clouds is a match made in heaven for several reasons. Ubuntu serves as the most popular operating system on OpenStack deployments, thanks ...

Broadcom has made VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 generally available, rolling out updates aimed at making private cloud setups easier to manage. VCF 9.0 introduces a modular design that adds ...

VMware, with its vSphere 4 announcement today, is laying the foundation for what it hopes will be a central role for VMware technology in enterprises making use of both public and private cloud ...

One of the biggest decisions IT managers have to make is how and where to run data center applications. Fortunately, there are multiple choices that lower costs and increase business agility, ...

Cloud computing has surpassed buzzword status and has become an unstoppable force as businesses look to move their applications and infrastructures to the Web and shatter the shackles of pricy, bulky ...

The National Institute for Standards in Technology has a definition of what cloud computing is that’s fairly agreed upon within the industry. But research firm Gartner says there’s still a lot of ...