SonicWall CEO: App Awareness Crucial for Security
SonicWall once focused on small and midsize businesses, but its introduction earlier this year of a next-generation firewall line dubbed SuperMassive leaves no doubt that the company is now taking aim...
View ArticleCloud Security: Symantec CEO Shares Why it's a Game Changer
For Symantec Corp. CEO Enrique Salem, the three critical issues facing IT leaders today -- and the three biggest opportunities for his 'information protection' company -- are cloud, virtualization and...
View ArticleHP's Leo Apotheker: We're Heading to the Cloud
A day after Hewlett-Packard CEO Leo Apotheker outlined his strategic vision for HP -- a plan chock-full of new cloud offerings -- he sat down with IDG Enterprise Chief Content Officer John Gallant and...
View ArticleNetSuite's CEO Cashes in on Cloud Mania
People mean a lot of things when they talk about "the cloud," but if you want to know where the revenue is going, look no further than SaaS (software as a service). Salesforce leads the SaaS pack with...
View ArticleVMware CEO: What We Plan for the Post-PC Era
CEOs can come across as the chief sales officers in interviews, aggressively repeating bullet points that may or may not answer the question at hand. Paul Maritz, CEO of VMware, is not that type of...
View ArticleMichael Dell Interview: We're a 'Solutions' Company
Few CEOs have witnessed more change from the same seat as Michael Dell. When he founded Dell in the 1980s, his Austin company was among the first to sell PCs by mail, often at a lower price and with...
View ArticleThe 2011 Enterprise Architecture Awards
Enterprise architecture (EA) serves two main purposes: to provide a framework for collaboration between business and IT and to offer a pivot point for transformational change. To be effective change...
View Article2011: the Year Cloud Computing Shook the Data Center
If I had to sum up in one word the most exciting thing that happened to cloud computing in 2011, I'd have to say it's OpenStack. This open source project, launched by Rackspace and NASA in late 2010,...
View ArticleThe Oracle Flaw: Clarifications and More Information
Since InfoWorld published "Fundamental Oracle flaw revealed" on Jan. 17, we've received abundant feedback from Oracle users and consulted with Oracle representatives, who went through the story point...
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How to Choose an IaaS Provider
Suddenly, IaaS is smoking hotIn the past few months, Google, HP, and Microsoft have announced that they're getting into the IaaS game. Amazon now dominates the space, but can it fend off the invasion...
View ArticleHow to Choose an IaaS Provider
Close your eyes and think of the cloud. Odds are Amazon quickly comes to mind -- for good reason. By some estimates, Amazon Web Services holds 70 percent of the IaaS (infrastructure as a service)...
View ArticleExclusive: eBay Puts OpenStack to Work
OpenStack, the open source "cloud operating system," has stirred community excitement and attracted a vendor following, including Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM, and Red Hat. But until now one thing has been...
View ArticleCloudera CEO Says They're Taking Hadoop Beyond MapReduce
From the number of times you've heard the word "Hadoop," you'd think it referred to some magic elixir for making sense of big data. In reality, Hadoop is an open source framework for distributed data...
View Article2012 is The Year Cloud Computing Took a Bite Out of IT
When we started talking about cloud computing five years ago, it meant one thing: Services such as Amazon or Salesforce that customers could self-provision over the Internet and pay as they go.That's...
View ArticleBuild Your Own Private Cloud
The primary mission of computing has always been to automate business. The secondary mission has been to automate the automation, a quest that grows ever more urgent as data center technology achieves...
View ArticleApple devs: Don't let Apple's Xcode validation scare you
The Apple App Store has long enjoyed a sterling reputation for screening out malware. But last weekend, the company pulled apps infected with XcodeGhost malware from the Chinese Apple App Store --...
View ArticleOracle CEO Mark Hurd: We have the whole cloud stack
Few enterprise IT transformations can match the importance of today’s long migration from on-premises, client-server computing to cloud computing. This week at Oracle’s mammoth OpenWorld conference in...
View ArticleCloudera CEO Says They're Taking Hadoop Beyond MapReduce
From the number of times you've heard the word "Hadoop," you'd think it referred to some magic elixir for making sense of big data. In reality, Hadoop is an open source framework for distributed data...
View Article2012 is The Year Cloud Computing Took a Bite Out of IT
When we started talking about cloud computing five years ago, it meant one thing: Services such as Amazon or Salesforce that customers could self-provision over the Internet and pay as they go.That's...
View ArticleBuild Your Own Private Cloud
The primary mission of computing has always been to automate business. The secondary mission has been to automate the automation, a quest that grows ever more urgent as data center technology achieves...
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