Will your cloud service provider survive?

Stories about one vendor buying another are more often than not the AOP of the incisive Chris Nerney, nevertheless yesterday's announcement that Teradata acquired marketing and market-analysis software provider Aprimo made me wonder how fast the cloud-computing market is consolidating.

The acquisition shift is as a matter of fact going in two directions. Traditional data-center services providers are buying networking or software companies to add to their own capabilities and look more like one-stop IT infrastructure-and-software shops for mid-sized companies looking for rent-an-IT-shop.

The promise of cloud is heady

While the promise of cloud is heady, there is confusion about the different types of cloud, what they as a matter of fact offer, and which will meet stringent business requirements. This paper focuses on separating the hype of cloud from the "how to".

In virtualized server environments, the selection of the storage environment and choice of the storage system, itself, are critical.