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.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt says your privacy doesn't exist and a mini uproar ensues. Even one of Mozilla's director of community is giving Bing an endorsement over Google after Schmidt's comments. Let's connect a few dots.

Cisco announces new collaboration tools that better integrate video, as well as new Web mail hosting service.

By Chris Hoff

A couple of weeks ago amidst another interesting Amazon Web Services announcement featuring the newly-arrived Relational Database Service, Werner Vogels (Amazon CTO) jokingly retweeted a remark that someone made suggesting he was like “…Santa for nerds.”

All I want for Christmas is my elastic IP...

A version of Catbird's vSecurity Cloud Edition is available as an app in Amazon's EC2-approved catalog of application services.

Online merchants can use Amazon's passphrase payment scheme to ease the friction of online commerce.

By Chris Hoff

Some suggest in discussing the role and long-term sustainable value of infrastructure versus software in cloud that software will marginalize bespoke infrastructure and the latter will simply commoditize.

I find that an interesting assertion, given that it tends to ignore the realities that both hardware and software ultimately suffer from a case of Moore’s Law — from speeds and feeds to the multi-core crisis, this will continue ad infinitum.  It’s important to keep that perspective.[..]

By Alex Williams

Salesforce.com and Cisco announced a partnership today that brings together Salesforce.com's online customer service software with Cisco's strengths in IP Telephony. The service, called "Customer Interaction Cloud," is designed to provide a complete, cloud-based customer service offering for small to medium sized businesses. [..]

The U.S. Defense Department is offering cloud computing services that military officials claim are safer and more reliable than commercial providers such as Google.