• Why VMware's hybrid Cloud announcement could be a big deal

  By Brandon Butler | 14 March, 2013 20:04

  Perhaps the biggest selling point for VMware's newly announced hybrid cloud strategy -- and the reason it could be a game changer in the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market -- is because of the common platform VMware customers will now have between their private Cloud internal systems and this new VMware-operated public Cloud.

• CIOs talk about their top priorities for 2013

  By Rebecca Merrett | 20 February, 2013 12:45

  CIO Australia spoke to five IT leaders about the key technology and business strategies that will help drive growth across their organisations this year.

• Learn to fail and avoid the next cloud outage

  By Apurva Dave, vice president of products and marketing, Riverbed Stingray Business Unit | 11 February, 2013 20:05

  Outages with large public cloud providers aren't more common than they are with a business' own private infrastructure.

• Tasmania seeks hosted private cloud for server, storage

  By Adam Bender | 10 December, 2012 10:36

  The Tasmanian government revealed plans to gradually move to an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) model as part of its ICT strategy.

• Analyzing costs in cloud business models

  By James Parker, senior vice president of sales, Savvis | 07 December, 2012 16:09

  IT leaders know cloud is here to stay, but many are still trying to calculate the potential return on investment. Based on our experience, companies that outsource their infrastructure as a service (IaaS) can expect to achieve 18% cost savings over three years compared to in-house IT.

• IT's new concern: The personal Cloud

  By Robert L. Mitchell | 20 May, 2013 10:14

  As personal and professional Clouds converge, IT's mission to improve productivity while protecting corporate apps and data is getting tougher.

• 2012: The year Cloud computing took a bite out of IT

  By Eric Knorr | 24 December, 2012 11:17

  As new public cloud plays leap in and the private cloud slowly evolves, we're on the brink of a shift to cloud computing for critical business workloads

• Why private cloud will make IT think like Wal-Mart

  By Bernard Golden | 21 August, 2009 03:27

  Public. Private. Hybrid. Cloudburst. Much of the discussion about cloud computing focuses on deployment options and choices, with a surprisingly large number of enterprises inclining toward internal private clouds-that is, a cloud-capable infrastructure residing within a company's own data center.

• Ausenco virtualises to 95 percent, upgrades DR capability

  By Tim Lohman | 07 August, 2009 10:58

  Australian engineering, project management and operations company Ausenco has undertaken a major virtualisation and disaster recovery (DR) upgrade as a foundation to developing a private cloud for its core enterprise applications.

• Blog: Forrester bucks wisdom on cloud computing

  By Bernard Golden | 30 June, 2009 01:54

  A couple of weeks ago Forrester released a report on cloud computing, based upon a survey of small and large enterprises located in North America and Europe. I was particularly interested in its findings as it addressed the question of private (internal) cloud computing.

Whitepapers about private cloud

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  Note to CIOs: Get Your Head in the Cloud

  CIOs today are feeling the pressure to provide IT services that keep up with the business, and are need IT delivery methods that meet their user’s demands. Traditional IT services are still important, however, especially as security and availability concerns inhibit widespread cloud adoption. Click to download how CIOs can roadmap a successful hybrid IT delivery environment.

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  Forrester: The Three Stages of Cloud Economics

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  5 Myths of Cloud Computing

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  Cloud Services: Using Virtual Private Clouds to Improve Business Agility