An IT consulting firm went around the floor of the recent InterOp show in New York, asking 100 IT professionals to rank their most urgent priorities. The resulting survey showed that they are mlost focused on supporting new technologies and innovations, followed by cost containment. Cost containment, by the way, rose from 11 percent considering [...]

At this week’s VMworld, VMware unvieled something called its “Virtual Datacenter Operating System (VDC-OS).” According to VMWare, the Virtual Datacenter OS enables users to “efficiently pool all types of hardware resources – servers, storage and network – into an aggregated on-premise cloud – and, when needed, safely federate workloads to external clouds for additional compute [...]

Dion Hinchcliffe, the leading proponent of Web Oriented Architecture (WOA), recently posted details about Amazon’s new Elastic Block Store (EBS), a cloud-based computing platform that ostensibly is targeted at fulfilling the roles of enteprise-class data centers. While Amazon Web Services’ previous offerings — including Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for processing and message queuing, S3 for [...]