Saas

Ramnit malware evolved from Windows attack-app to a social-network surfer that steals Facebook logins and free access to corporate nets using comparatively insecure user accounts in the cloud to get passwords or authentication without directly attacking corporate accounts.

The real truth about cloud computing is that it can make IT vastly more powerful and efficient, but making it work means changing everything IT does every day and much of the infrastructure and processes it has spent 30 years building. No wonder it hasn't worked yet.

At the VMworld conference, VMware CEO Paul Maritz described efforts to lead virtualization in half a dozen markets at once, only one of which it unquestionably owns now.

Amazon's EC2, poster child for enterprise class cloud computing, had major problems overnight, bringing down a series of web sites and other customers, marring its own reputation.

VMware wants to refocus the virtualization market away from the strengths of Citrix and Microsoft with suite collaboration aimed at end users.

A new survey from Microsoft highlights cities where cloud computing is most popular, but overlooks the fastest growing segment.

Faster-than-expected migration to tablets means IT had better stop talking about supporting multiple end-user devices and do it already.

Verizon and Google have a deal they think is great for small business customers. Well, very, very small business customers. Customers that have three employees or fewer, are close enough to financial disaster that $5 a month could make or break them, and are not smart enough to see the difference between "marketing" and "BS."

The cloud market is so dynamic right now the most important questions might not be about technology or security; follow the money.

Google continues to ramp up pressure on Microsoft, adding applications and enticements to get users to switch backup, archiving and other services to Google's apps and away from Microsoft's.

Could it be that part of the reason cloud computing still confuses some people is that vendors change the definition to match what they're selling?