Steve Staso - Computing Solutions Strategist

HP paid roughly 11 times what 3Par made in revenue in 2009, so perhaps Dell should be wiping sweat from its forehead after losing the bidding battle for the storage vendor. Still, HP could make hay with 3Par in a big way.

News Analysis: Apples Ping is now available in iTunes. But whether or not it will become the vibrant community of music lovers the iPod maker hopes for remains to be seen. - When Steve Jobs took the stage on Sept. 1 and started talking about Ping, the companys new music-based social network, some wondered exactly how it would be implemented. After all, there are several social networks already in the wild. As Apple has shown time and again, iTunes is a place to buy ...

A new Vlingo feature lets users check in to Foursquare by speaking into a smartphone running Android 2.0 or later. - Vlingo is finding new ways to differentiate its software for smartphones based on Google's voice search application. The company Sept. 2 released a new feature for its Vlingo for Android application that lets users check in to Foursquare simply by speaking into their smartphone running Androi...

To help drive home its point that IBM is serious about cloud computing, Big Blue hosted an event at the US Open to show its cloud prowess in action. Cloud computing is a key IBM growth initiative through 2015. - NEW YORK – To help drive home its point that IBM is serious about cloud computing, Big Blue hosted an event at the US Open to show its cloud prowess in action. IBM has long been a partner of the US Tennis Association (USTA) in handling all the IT operations behind the US Open and other Gran...

New IBM research shows a way to move live cloud deployments across different storage networks

Hewlett-Packard swooped in with the better bid to overtake Dell and win 3Par, so now we can all sit back and wait for the next acquisition battle to roll around. Meanwhile, Apple debuted updated iPods and Apple TV to entertain us, among other IT news stories of the week.

Dell has thrown in the towel and conceded the 3PAR bidding war to HP. With that epic struggle behind it, Dell has to determine its next steps--sans 3PAR and now competing against the cloud storage service it had hoped to be offering.

CIO.com's Bernard Golden wraps up the key cloud computing developments from the VMworld show this week.

Amazon.com is getting ready to offer a video streaming service and when it does a major market battle may develop between it and Google. - Amazon.com is making plans to add a subscription-based video streaming service to its list of offerings and is trying to drum up support for it among media companies, the Wall Street Journal is reporting. The publication said that the service would compete quite well with Netflixs Instant Stream...

When it comes to voice and video, Google should think collaboration and not competition. - As it currently stands, Googles recent addition of Public Switched Telephone Network voice calling to Gmail is much ado about nothing. While the feature works well enough and Google enjoyed a nice burst of voice traffic right after launch, I can only hope the move is the first s...

Ten highlights from VMworld, the massive virtualization conference.

Virtualization and cloud capabilities are touted in the joint Novell-VMware announcement.

What storage can you move to the cloud now? Forrester explains and shares advice on how to get the benefits without jeopardizing operational effectiveness.

Salesforce.com rolled out a new service on Wednesday that integrates business-contact information with its own CRM (customer relationship management) application and Chatter collaboration software.

Running on VMware's bread-and-butter vSphere platform, the new management controls include general management, security, data center services and outside consulting services. - SAN FRANCISCO VMware pulled the wraps off a series of new products and services Aug. 31 at its VMworld 2010 expo and conference here at the Moscone Center, all with the purpose of helping VMware users gain better control of their cloud computing deployments. In fact, by using these new assets,...

VMware vCloud Director lowers the barrier to creating private and hybrid cloud offerings by enabling IT to offer a virtual data center as a service catalog offering. vCloud director puts an easy access interface on compute, storage and network resource pools and wraps policy around deployment options to maintain separation and security. - VMware gave me a sneak peek at vCloud Director, which leads me to think that the company is about to set a new benchmark for virtualized IT. What's new is that vCloud Director, which VMware released last week at VMworld in San Francisco, enables IT to combine pooled compute, network and stor...

VMware announces a new Cloud Application Platform that leverages Spring and the company's new vFabric application services. - VMware has announced its new Cloud Application Platform, which capitalizes on some of the company's key acquisitions and combines the Spring Java development framework with VMware's new vFabric application services. The announcement comes out of VMware's VMworld conference in San Francisco, whe...

RSA Solution for Cloud Security and Compliance is aimed at managing security, risk and regulatory compliance of cloud infrastructures--multitenant or otherwise. - On Day One of VMworld 2010, EMC's RSA security arm on Aug. 30 introduced a new integrated security and compliance package designed expressly for multitenant cloud computing. RSA Solution for Cloud Security and Compliance is aimed at managing security, risk and regulatory compliance of cloud ...

A new tool from Precise will improve aspects of cloud monitoring said the company.

Novell has made its cloud security service available following successful beta trials.