Jean-Philippe Courtois, President Microsoft International As we begin a new calendar year, we’ve been excited to read analysts’ predictions that 2012 will be the year that many companies truly embrace cloud computing. Today, Microsoft is the only cloud provider which offers the full spectrum of cloud services spanning public, hybrid and private clouds. This choice of models enables you to build and consume cloud services from your datacenter, our datacenter and/or a partner’s datacenter. We expect that most organizations will choose some mix of all three models and that those preferences will evolve along with business needs. At Microsoft, we’d like partner with you along each step of your journey to the cloud. For many of you, the first step will be into the private cloud. It’s here that you can begin to appreciate the advantage of cloud, reap its benefits, and increase your understanding of and comfort levels with cloud technologies. With that experience under your belt, you may feel...

Written by Stephanie Stahl, TechWeb When it comes to plotting a cloud strategy, CIOs should stop thinking about labels and start looking for configurations that best fit their applications, says analyst Alistair Croll, founder of and principal analyst at BitCurrent and the content chair for Cloud C...

Garth Fort, General Manager of Microsoft's Security and Management Division, discusses what is new with applications management in this new world of the cloud, the ongoing need to optimize the development and operations relationship, compelling applications management capabilities in System Center 2...

Garth Fort, General Manager of Microsoft's Security and Management Division, discusses what factors are leading IT executives to evaluate a private cloud solution, the benefits a private cloud offers, and how to implement a cloud environment with their current data center investments. View VideoForm...

Register here. In 2012, cloud computing will transition from hype and discussion, to part of every enterprise's reality, and IT is uniquely positioned to lead this transformation and help business reap the benefits of cloud computing. To help you get real-world answers, I'd like to invite you to an ...

Written by Bob Violino, TechWeb A growing number of companies are moving to cloud computing environments to take advantage of potential benefits such as lower IT costs, increased efficiencies and the greater flexibility provided by the cloud model. Many of them are implementing private clouds or infrastructure-as-a-service environments to handle key parts of their IT infrastructure needs. Research firm Gartner Inc. in Stamford, Conn., has reported that a “vast majority” of its clients are now virtualizing their infrastructures and many are on their way to building private cloud computing services based on their virtualization architecture. And research firm IDC in Framingham, Mass., reported in October 2011 that cloud computing will be a key driver of new IT spending over the next five years, with enterprise spending on storage for the private cloud expected to see a compound annual growth rate of 29 percent over that period. By 2015, the firm says, combined spending for public and pri...

By Paula Klein, TechWeb It would seem that all an IT team has to do is snap its fingers and innovation happens. After all, these are the best and brightest technologists in the enterprise working on leading-edge systems and devices that should bring the business into new, uncharted territory. Why, t...

Is data now at the heart of competitive advantage? How is it changing the traditional role of business intelligence, and what stage are we at in the maturity of useful, actionable, timely, and relevant information? Tim O'Reilly, Founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., talks about what happens “when...

Jean-Philippe Courtois, President Microsoft International As we begin a new calendar year, we’ve been excited to read analysts’ predictions that 2012 will be the year that many companies truly embrace cloud computing. Today, Microsoft is the only cloud provider which offers the full spectrum of clou...

Written by Stephanie Stahl, TechWeb When it comes to plotting a cloud strategy, CIOs should stop thinking about labels and start looking for configurations that best fit their applications, says analyst Alistair Croll, founder of and principal analyst at BitCurrent and the content chair for Cloud C...