The Cloud - Promises and Realities
While it’s true that cloud computing offers new levels of capability across the business spectrum, the ideal characteristics that users hope the cloud will deliver are a constant work-in-progress. Current economic circumstances continue to drive the demand for a more effective model of delivering applications and computing services. Yet while the technology evolves, users are encountering a range of cloud experiences, both positive and negative. As a result, a number of users and organizations still question the reality of what the cloud can deliver.

Enabling the Enterprise Network for Cloud Computing
Virtualization within the Data Center is now taken for granted, with some declaring that ‘Cloud Computing’ will be the choice of most enterprises and that applications and information will become commodities. Experience has proved one thing; the Data Center of the future cannot be built on the technology of the past. General-purpose products, outmoded techniques, and legacy designs cannot be re-packaged as ‘Data Center-ready’. The industry will take the best and leave the rest. This paper is written for IT leadership, line-of-business executives, and anyone faced with the difficult task of tying data together from two or more disparate applications.

Future Proof your Cloud Integration - Three Trends You Must Understand
When you consider how easy it is to try, buy, and deploy new cloud-based applications, it might be difficult to appreciate why cloud computing introduces its own set of unique information consolidation obstacles. Let’s look at three trends you must understand in order to future-proof your cloud integration.

VMware and Cloud Computing
Caught between shrinking resources and growing business needs, organizations are looking to cloud computing to provide a more efficient, flexible and cost-effective model for computing—one that allows IT to operate much more efficiently and respond faster to business opportunities. The goal is to enable IT as a Service, and cloud computing provides the technical architecture to deliver it.