With so many companies large and small targeting the cloud, the providers of cloud management tools expect to defeat vendors of targeted apps.

Wholesale customers get a choice, but the ISP isn't phasing out IPv4 any time soon.

Dasient's answer is to crawl the Web looking for vulnerabilities, analyze the vulnerabilities it finds, and deliver signatures of those vulnerabilities to servers it's defending.

Salesforce says the free edition of Force.com will make it easy for companies to build their first cloud application.

Big Blue is reportedly in talks to buy Sun Microsystems for at least $6.5 billion.

If Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Salesforce are missing, who's going to bother?

Ethernet may be the dominant player in networking, but InfiniBand is enjoying some success in corners of the world where scalability matters.

Summit X650-24t "completes the 10GB ecosystem," lowering the cost bar for high-speed data-center operations.

Arguing that manual analysis and piecemeal solutions have broken enterprise network security, Symantec's new CEO tells the RSA conference it's time to operationalize the field.

Database company talks strategic value of the buy; predicts "substantially higher margins" from troubled Sun.

Some say the move to IPv6 is just like broccoli: You don't have to like it to know you need it.

Beyond the talk about "synergies" and innovation may be a simpler motivation: picking off a dogged but weakened competitor.

Special interests make last-minute pleas as final day of public meetings on stimulus grants draws to a close.

Virtualization, WAN optimization and intrusion prevention all loom large in Vyatta Community Edition 5.

Announcements show both that large enterprises are adopting the cloud and that cloud and virtualization ecosystems are thriving.