Don’t look now, but there’s a daisy chain being built in the cloud. In January, Verizon bought the pioneer cloud company Terremark for $1.4 billion. Three months later, CenturyLink announced it would buy managed services host (and cloud infrastructure provider)…
Enterprises looking to revamp their strategies around data center optimization and utilization face the initial decision of whether to build from scratch or to retool their existing systems. Creating a new data center from scratch allows an organization to plan…
Data Center Knowledge recently conducted its 2011 survey of enterprise class data center operators and found that data center design is still the top area of interest. The survey has be conducted in each of the last four years, and…
Summary: When capabilities of a technology come close to that offered by others and the cost is significantly lower, a technology can grow to overcome established competitors. KVM is moving in that direction. Once again, the Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA)…
I had a chance this week to speak with the CEOs of a number of small companies. One of the things that really jumped out at me is how hard it is for these small companies to get a “CIO.”…
