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• Cloud providers touting multi-hypervisor support

  By Brandon Butler | 10 May, 2012 05:42

  When Tata Communications, the Indian telecommunications company, rolls out its infrastructure as a service cloud offering in America in the coming months, company officials want to claim differentiating features in the products. And one they're hoping to include is support for multiple hypervisors.

• 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.

• Opinion: CIOs' Cloud strategy must include public Cloud

  By Bernard Golden | 27 April, 2012 02:58

  Over the past year, I've noticed a significant shift in my conversations about cloud with senior IT managers.

• Need for more Australian specialist Cloud providers: CIO study

  By Hamish Barwick | 02 April, 2012 15:55

  With Australian CIOs looking overseas for Cloud services, the need for more Australian specialist infrastructure and platform-as-a-service providers presents opportunities for the local Cloud service market, according to a new study from analyst firm, Telsyte.

• Piston Cloud has made the tough private cloud decisions for you

  By John Dix | 15 March, 2012 11:10

  Joshua McKenty, co-founder and chief executive officer of Piston Cloud, what he calls The Enterprise OpenStack Company, was in on the ground floor of OpenStack's creation, working as he was on the Anso Labs team at NASA to build a compute cloud on top of open source platform Eucalyptus. The team eventually gave up on that and wrote Nova, which NASA uses today to power its Nebula Cloud environment, and Nova was ultimately contributed to the OpenStack project, which it formed with Rackspace. McKenty left NASA after Anso was acquired by Rackspace in 2010, and formed Piston Cloud in 2011 with co-founders Gretchen Curtis (also of NASA) and Christopher MacGown of Rackspace. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix recently caught up with McKenty for a deep dive on why OpenStack matters and where Piston Cloud fits in.

• Choose the right chargeback solution for greater cloud cost savings

  By Andrew LaCroix, director of solutions architecture at Cloud Cruiser | 11 February, 2012 09:30

  This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.

• Cloud computing report card: Grading our predictions

  By Bernard Golden | 10 January, 2012 09:07

  A year ago I laid out my predictions for cloud computing in 2011. In the spirit of honesty and willingness to display my errors in public, I thought it would be useful to recap those predictions, grade them, comment on them and review an exciting, tumultuous year.

• EMC works to boost acceptance of public and private clouds

  By Tim Greene | 17 December, 2011 04:31

  EMC has tied its fortunes to the future of cloud computing and is working hard to change the hearts and minds of IT executives so they will embrace the same vision, according to the firm's chief marketing officer.

• Beware Cloud computing advice from IT research firms

  By Bernard Golden | 10 December, 2011 02:23

  I don't know how I missed this, but at the Gartner IT Symposium in October, Darryl Plummer (Chief of Gartner Cloud Research) apparently stated that enterprises should deploy applications in a public cloud provider as a default, and only deploy them in a private cloud if the public alternative is not appropriate.

• Aussie Cloud adoption can be accelerated with BizCloud

  By Hamish Barwick | 16 August, 2011 16:42

  Australian businesses looking to move to the Cloud may experience shorter implementation times following the launch of BizCloud, an on-premise private Cloud service from business technology provider, CSC.

• Public Cloud adoption leaving Aussie CIOs in the dark: Survey

  By Lisa Banks | 08 June, 2011 12:15

  Australian CIOs are concerned about the effect of Cloud sprawl, with the increase in public Cloud services being a large thorn in the side of IT teams, a new survey of C-level executives has found.

• Cloud CIO: Like open source, cloud hides in plain sight

  By Bernard Golden | 12 May, 2011 04:44

  I came across an article in InfoWorld about a survey that TheInfoPro conducted among Fortune 1000 firms regarding their use of public cloud storage offerings. The bottom line: they haven't, they aren't, and they won't. 87 per cent of respondents stated they have no plans to use public storage-as-a-service, while only 10 per cent say that they will. Clearly, the survey indicates this market segment has no use for cloud storage.

• What you need to know about the year of the cloud

  By Eric Knorr | 31 December, 2010 14:05

  2010 saw Microsoft make a big grab for the cloud, while big business got serious about building clouds of its own

• Cloud computing ‘number two’ priority for CIOs: IDC

  By Lisa Banks | 27 August, 2010 15:25

  A majority of Australian CIOs are moving towards the cloud at a rapid rate, with cost effectiveness and reduced infrastructure being top-of-mind for IT leaders looking at SaaS.

• Public clouds open data storage services: analyst

  By Lisa Banks | 30 July, 2010 09:34

  Data storage services are becoming available in public clouds with the move set to cut enterprise IT costs and make life easier for CIOs trying to best utilise cloud computing.