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), ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Cloud is powerful. Plugging into cloud computing software ...

When vendors and marketers get their hands on an IT concept, it doesn’t take long for that concept to morph into a totally new business opportunity and possibly a new market segment. Such is the story ...

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 ...

Apple created a Virtual Research Environment to allow public access to testing the security of its Private Cloud Compute system, and released the source code for some “key components” to help ...

For all the hype about cloud computing in the enterprise — hype that Gartner believes is now nearing its peak — IT professionals continue to tell cloud-related vendors that the cloud will not be ...

VMware held its annual VMware Partner Exchange earlier this month, and used the conference to talk about virtualization and cloud computing. For VMware, the so-far undisputed virtualization leader, ...

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 ...

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, ...