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Stories by Eric Knorr

  • What cloud computing really means

    Cloud computing has evolved beyond basic SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS offerings, as the cloud matures to become the engine of enterprise technology innovation

  • How to choose an IaaS provider

    Move over, Amazon: Google, HP, and Microsoft, and others want a seat at the table. How do you choose among all those IaaS providers? Start with this quick primer

  • Dell XPS 13: Gray with MacBook Air envy

    Lately I've been changing things up a bit. For several months I used a little Lenovo ThinkPad X220 running Windows 7 and had a great experience -- it felt rock solid and responsive, with fantastic battery life. Then I switched to a MacBook Pro, and now that I've gotten used to it, I actually find it more or less a wash between the two (sorry, Apple fanboys).

  • 2011: When cloud computing shook the data center

    If I had to sum up in one word the most exciting thing that happened to cloud computing in 2011, I'd have to say it's <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/t/private-cloud/openstack-wants-be-your-data-center-os-167932">OpenStack</a>. This open source project, launched by <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/t/cloud-computing/no-2-cloud-provider-rackspace-tries-harder-625">Rackspace</a> and NASA in late 2010, is assembling a <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/t/cloud-computing/what-the-private-cloud-really-means-463">private cloud</a> "operating system" for the data center that promises vast increases in operational efficiency. The momentum behind it is phenomenal; at last count, 144 companies back the project, including Cisco, Citrix, Dell, HP, and Intel.

  • What desktop virtualisation really means

    Desktop virtualisation harks back to the good old mainframe days of centralised computing while upholding the fine desktop tradition of user empowerment. Each user retains his or her own instance of desktop operating system and applications, but that stack runs in a virtual machine on a server -- which users can access through a low-cost thin client similar to an old-fashioned terminal.

  • The computer hardware hall of fame

    There's a special place reserved for the stalwart hardware that many of us have depended on day after day, year after year. Or at least, we believe there should be a special place.

  • Microsoft's cloud forms

    At the Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston, Microsoft made its biggest foray yet into cloud computing with pricing and partnership arrangements for Microsoft Online Services, a family that includes Online versions of Exchange, SharePoint, Office Communications, Office Live Meeting, and Dynamics CRM.

  • IBM tackles IT energy efficiency in a Big Green way

    Project Big Green is IBM's sprawling initiative to increase the energy efficiency of IT. In May 2007, Big Blue announced that it would redirect no less than US$1 billion per year to Big Green, which applies both to solutions IBM offers to customers and to the company's own internal IT operations.

  • Microsoft: We have services, too

    Microsoft has taken another baby step into on-demand services, with a bundle of small announcements that amount to a little rebranding here, and a couple of new services there. The new offerings are Office Live Workspace -- a free, personal, Web-based document storage and collaboration space hosted by Microsoft -- and a fresh edition of the company's Dynamics Live CRM product.

  • LINUXWORLD - IBM attempts to tackle enterprise data integration

    For years IBM has doggedly pursued the massive problem of pulling data strewn across the enterprise into an integrated, harmonious whole. At LinuxWorld on Monday, the company introduced IBM Information Server Blade, an appliance-like bundle intended to make the Herculean task of enterprise data integration faster and easier.