A new white paper sponsored by Microsoft may be a watershed event in the debate on cloud economics, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden. Its conclusions regarding private cloud costs will surprise some.

For many IT departments currently evaluating or implementing a private cloud model of computing, this is the next phase or evolution in upgrading their existing virtualized data center. Part of that private cloud build-out consists of creating a self-service portal, typically for use in test and dev, but with plans for expanding that functionality into production.read more

Like a growing number of enterprise IT executives, Craig Baughn, vice president of hosting operations at Concur Technologies, a corporate travel and expense management company in Redmond, Wash., is carefully studying how to transition from a virtual environment to a private cloud.

Cisco CEO John Chambers addresses competitors' criticism of premium pricing, proprietary technology and circumventing IT when necessary.

HP Wednesday announced products it says will help enterprise IT and service providers ease the adoption of internal cloud computing setups as well as public cloud services.

Financial services firm lets users grab their own IT resources with a virtualized private cloud.

After a long week at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference, Yousef Khalidi flew across the country from Los Angeles to New York Thursday to talk about the company's new Azure cloud services at the Inteorp trade show.

Cisco Systems Inc., EMC Corp. and VMware Inc. have formed a coalition to accelerate data centre virtualization and the transition to private clouds. The CEOs of the three companies announced the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition in a Webcast on Tuesday.

The private cloud packages developed by Cisco and EMC could integrate with existing internal clouds.

The secretive CIA, one of the U.S. government's strongest advocates of cloud computing, believes an internal cloud can make the agency's IT environments more flexible and secure.