• Infrastructure cloud services take a shift toward PaaS

  By Brandon Butler | 09 May, 2012 01:24

  LAS VEGAS -- Services providers that have traditionally offered infrastructure as a service (IaaS) clouds are beginning to move up the stack into the platform as a service (PaaS) market in an effort to diversify their portfolio and respond to increasing customer demand for cloud-based development services.

• VMware, Piston Cloud pledge to develop open source PaaS offering

  By Brandon Butler | 01 May, 2012 04:26

  In a pairing of unlikely partners, Piston Cloud Computing announced it will work to support integration of VMware's open source platform-as-a-service offering Cloud Foundry with OpenStack, the open source infrastructure-as-a-service model.

• Master MySQL in the Amazon cloud

  By Sean Hull | 30 April, 2012 20:15

  For many MySQL database admins, Amazon Web Services represents the brave new world of cloud computing -- one fraught with disappearing servers, disk I/O variability, and other shared resource challenges, not to mention questions regarding the security of data.

• Amazon outage one year later: Are we safer?

  By Brandon Butler | 27 April, 2012 20:32

  Amazon Web Services last April suffered what many consider to be the worst cloud service outage to date - an event that knocked big name customers such as Reddit, Foursquare, HootSuite, Quora and others offline, some for as many as four days.

• Do you know where your Cloud data is?

  By Brandon Butler | 25 April, 2012 23:36

  If your data is in the cloud, do you know where it really is?

• Compliance Under a Cloud

  By Jim Hietala | 25 February, 2010 11:33

  There's no doubt that cloud computing is dominating today's IT conversation among C-level security executives. Whether they're lured by its compelling cost savings or its perceived advantages, security leaders are probing the capabilities and restrictions of the cloud. At the same time, security and compliance concerns remain issues holding large enterprises back from capitalizing on the cloud's benefits.

• 3 Keys to Using IaaS Public Clouds Wisely

  By James Staten | 20 October, 2009 08:37

  It seems as if every CIO comes back from a conference cocktail party demanding IT move to the cloud. While this can mean many things, including using software-as-a-service (SaaS), managed hosting, or application service providers (ASP), the demand often centers on moving applications out of your own budget-sucking data center and up to an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud platform.

Whitepapers about IaaS

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