Riding the downturn: Network vendors eye new markets in ’09
Today's rough economy hasn't put the breaks on vendor ambition. Here's a look at what you can expect this year from Microsoft, Cisco, Juniper Networks, Avaya, and other key IT vendors, including their most pressing 2009 priorities and potential stumbling blocks.
Consortium tackles cloud computing standards
The Open Cloud Consortium (OCC), a newly formed group of universities, aims to improve the performance of storage and computing clouds spread across geographically disparate data centers and promote open frameworks that will let clouds operated by different entities work seamlessly together.
Sun buys cloud-computing vendor Q-layer
Sun Microsystems has bought Q-layer, a Belgian vendor of software for automating the management of computing clouds.
Startup Ctera will offer cloud storage through carriers
Storage startup Ctera introduced a combined local and cloud storage system for service providers to sell as a service.
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