VMware wants people to be able to access enterprise applications with the same ease and flexibility they enjoy from Facebook and Gmail. That is, on any device, without a thought about where the service originated.
Private clouds — where companies use their own infrastructure and provision virtualised services to end users via automated tools — are gaining traction among IT leaders who want to deliver advanced services at lower cost.
EMC has acquired FastScale Technology, a vendor of software for data centers, in an effort to focus on supporting private cloud infrastructures, the company announced Monday.
Government Technology Services head Stephen Crombie has signalled a willingness to expand free online access to government databases.
Deploying a private cloud network is a good way for enterprises to ease into cloud computing before deploying applications on the infrastructures of companies such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft, IT professionals said at a conference in New York this month.