IT Services

Hitachi GST CEO claims hard drive future hangs in Cloud

In March, Western Digital agreed to buy Hitachi Global Storage Technologies> (HGST), the disk drive subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., in a stock and cash transaction valued at $US4.3 billion. HGST CEO Steve Milligan will join WD as president at the closing of the deal, expected in the fourth quarter.

By Lucas Mearian | 02 September, 2011 07:16

Tags: hitachi, IBM, iSuppli, IT industry, Seagate Technology, storage, Storage Hardware, western digital

CIOs can use the Cloud to become more strategic: Amazon Web Services

When Amazon Web Services (AWS) chief technology officer, Werner Vogels, joined the organisation in 2004, the focus was very much on servicing customers in a retail environment. The concept of commercially available, robust, scalable infrastructure was just that — a concept. The organisation was working big name retailers such as Marks & Spencer and Target but it was the online retailer’s own operations that drove the technology agenda. Amazon Web Services was really borne out of the business requirements of its retail operations.

By Georgina Swan | 15 July, 2011 17:27

Tags: Amazon Web Services, AWS, cloud, Werner Vogels

Weinman: Biz, ecosystem are keys to cloud evolution

These days, cloud computing may be the hottest topic in IT industry as many firms are planning to unleash cloud service or already starting to deploy cloud service.

By Hyuna Kim | 17 March, 2010 04:43

Tags: at&t, cloud computing

Nick Carr: The ways cloud computing will disrupt IT

Whether you prefer the term "utility computing" or "the cloud," the industry is headed in that direction, however slowly, and the transition will have a multifaceted impact on IT in some ways productive, others unpleasant. And it will strike to the heart of the very technology professionals who provide a significant chunk of what is today's enterprise IT.

By Tom Sullivan | 26 March, 2009 08:35

Tags: cloud computing, nick carr

Q&A: Nicholas Carr on 'the big switch' to cloud computing

During his keynote speech at the Society for Information Management's SIMposium 08 conference in the US, author Nicholas Carr drew an analogy between cloud computing and the transition that manufacturers made from generating their own power to relying on utilities in the early 20th century.

By Thomas Hoffman | 14 November, 2008 09:01

Tags: cloud computing, Nicholas Carr

Google cries foul over coverage of Apps outages

Recent outages affecting Google Apps have received a disproportionately large amount of coverage from the technology press, resulting in a misperception about the stability of this hosted collaboration and communication suite.

By Juan Carlos Perez | 13 November, 2008 08:09

Tags: google apps

The inside view of Microsoft's cloud strategy

Microsoft this week launched its cloud computing environment, Windows Azure, which is the foundation of the Azure Services Platform for developing applications extending from the cloud to PCs, datacenters, phones, and the Web. Microsoft's goal is to let Windows developers transition from Windows client development to Windows cloud development, using familiar tools, both those from Microsoft and other sources such as Eclipse. Developers would continue to develop apps on their desktops, but the Azure platform would handle the app deployment in the cloud.

By Paul Krill and Eric Knorr | 03 November, 2008 08:32

Tags: cloud computing, virtualisation

Ray Ozzie steers Microsoft into the cloud

Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie has officially filled the shoes previously worn by founder and Chairman Bill Gates, stepping in as leader of the company's vast developer network, which is its lifeblood and crucial to the enormous success of Windows. Ozzie delivered Monday's keynote speech at the company's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles, introducing Windows Azure, a cloud-computing development and hosting environment that integrates Ozzie's vision for the future of the Web, which he began building at his company Groove Networks before he joined Microsoft.

By Elizabeth Montalbano | 29 October, 2008 08:40

Tags: azure, cloud computing, ray ozzie

Q&A: Praveen Asthana, Dell's director of enterprise storage

Dell has continued to move its storage product line and services upstream, adding more sophisticated software into its arrays, which have traditionally been targeted at small to midsize businesses. At the same time, the company says it will increase its offerings around cloud-based computing, both in on-site and off-site backup and disaster recovery.

By Lucas Mearian | 17 October, 2008 10:37

Tags: cloud computing, dell

Microsoft: We're not afraid of the cloud

Microsoft has been busy this year, rolling out Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 in a push to expand its presence in the corporate data center. To be successful, the company must overcome an economic environment that appears increasingly difficult as well as tough competition from rivals Oracle and VMware, among others