If you intend to use cloud services for internal-facing applications (e.g. virtual private clouds), bandwidth throughput to your business locations should be a very significant factor in your decision making process.
Riverbed CEO just realized cloud computing exists
In August of 2010 Riverbed said they “woke up one morning about six months ago to discover….. private clouds”
Virtualization: Benefits, Challenges and Solutions
IT organizations have embraced server virtualization to reduce costs and to dynamically provision and move virtual machines among physical servers. IT organizations have also adopted desktop virtualization for cost reduction and to improve application security and regulatory compliance. However, both server and desktop virtualization introduce new challenges related to management, visibility, and maintaining acceptable application [...]
The Virtual Private Cloud Framework – Is One Enough?
As cloud computing rages on in popularity, hype, and maybe even implementations we are left to wonder if we could use a technology version of the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale to define cloud computing realities versus those just blowing smoke?
Webcast: Optimizing Rational Team Concert Application Performance for Rapid ROI
Critical to lowering costs and increasing the efficiency of remote software development environments is a high performance wide area network (WAN) infrastructure. Software configuration management (SCM) solutions are commonly accessed over the WAN , as well as via private, public, or hybrid cloud environments where remote developers can experience performance degradation due to high latency, [...]