Cisco has announced a range of new joint technologies and integrated solutions targeting data centers that use Microsoft Corp.’s Cloud OS technologies.

iCore Networks has announced that it has expanded its customer base to over 68,000 users and has extended its cloud strategy after its acquisition of Always on Call.

IBM has announced that its cloud services and software will be based on an open cloud architecture.

Amazon Web Services, Inc. has announced that Amazon Redshift, a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud, is now broadly available for use

The Cloud Computing & Assurance for Critical DoD Initiatives Conference will be held April 23-25, 2013, in Washington, DC.

Internap Network Services Corporation has released the results of a survey that shows IT organizations are seeking to transform their traditional colocation environments with “cloudy colo” capabilities that deliver hybridization with cloud services as well as cloud-like visibility and control.

While iCloud and colocation (colo) providers contiue to migrate to urban environments, enterprise and internet data centers look within rural areas to find inexpensive power and temperate climates.

Enterprise information technology (IT) and the supporting components can eat up a significant chunk of a company’s budget, with much of it allocated to the infrastructure and personnel needed to sustain it.

The 19th century French critic and journalist Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr once said, “The more it changes, the more it’s the same thing.”

Starting a new law firm and speaking with cloud services vendors has brought my partner and me face-to-face with one of the realities of cloud data storage.