Late last year, the world got a good look at the challenges and pain associated with kernel maintenance required by cloud providers. A security vulnerability in the Xen hypervisor required immediate and… Read more »
Enterprises can leverage bare metal clouds to have more control over cloud services, cost issues, better performance, and security concerns. Read more »
… not that they’d admit it. Both cloud providers had to restart a bunch of customers’ workloads over the weekend. Live migration could have nipped that angst in the bud. Read more »
Organizations moving to the cloud must understand that the underlying network infrastructure and related network services are prime determinants of success for both themselves and the cloud service provider. Read more »
Enterprises must identify the common features for each IaaS building block and compare them to the services offered by key players in the industry. Read more »
Windows Azure is emerging as a credible cloud platform for both startups and enterprises. Here is our analysis of the key factors that turned its fate around, and what it must… Read more »
Though cloud computing is a technology, adopting it successfully has little to do with technology. The key factor that drives successful cloud computing adoption is how well an organization is prepared… Read more »
Concern over U.S. dominance in the cloud may drive change in the European market, where a number of local companies have sprung up to compete. Read more »
It’s that time of the year where Microsoft makes a set of announcements related to the Windows Azure platform. But with all the new players in the IaaS space, the company… Read more »
This week, Amazon launched a feature called OpsWorks that handles the application life cycle management deployed on the cloud. In doing so, AWS has once again stirred up competition in the… Read more »