Cisco, NetApp and VMware create guidelines for safely deploying virtualized applications with their products by enterprises and cloud service providers
The speeds of spinning disks keeps increasing, but they're not keeping up with servers. Solid state disks are very expensive now, but if their costs drop enough they could replace hard drives
Energy costs and the impact of social networking on the enterprise will also challenge IT departments, analysis firm Gartner tells annual data centre conference
Amazon is lowering the price of its Web-based virtual servers and has bolstered its cloud services with a new relational database and a set of high-memory virtual server instances.