The virtualisation giant is pretty pleased with its new "cloud OS", vSphere. Is it really that different from the competition. VMware's Reza Malekzadeh thinks so - and explained why.

The direct model did away with the old way of buying PCs. Now it's time to apply cloud economics to the data centre and slash the management costs, says Dell's Raj Kushwaha

The time is right for cloud computing - and prices are holding up despite the recession, according to Rackspace's chief strategy officer Lew Moorman

Shared storage needs NAS and SAN hardware doesn't it? Not if you listen to Jacques Baldinger, CEO of Seanodes, a radical storage start-up based in Paris.

The IT industry has a poor record of wasting energy in data centres, says server maker Sun Microsystems. But the company wants to make amends: it has attacked the source of the problem, and rewritten the rules for cooling and power.