Many in the IT industry seem to enjoy arguing exactly what does and does not constitute a cloud service. As I mentioned in my post on the controversy over private cloud services , I do not feel that these arguments are productive. We should focus on results and business value instead of arguing about...

Enterprise storage is at a crossroads. For a decade, IT organizations have been creating independent groups to oversee the various infrastructure components they are charged with managing: Server, network, storage, database, data center, backup, desktop, mainframe. This made sense, since each discipline...