Does Cloud Mean the End of Tape?

Editor’s Note: Recovery Point is a national provider of integrated business continuity solutions for government agencies and a broad array of commercial and non-profit organizations of all sizes. by Dick Fordham of Recovery Point With the rapid maturing of cloud-based backup and disaster recovery services enabled by the convergence of virtualization, highly efficient disk-based backup…

Is Cloud Computing Ready for the Enterprise?

As one analyst covering the tech industry commented to me, cloud computing, or “the cloud”, seems to have risen on the hype curve at an amazing speed. A few months back the term hardly but now every technical analyst, journal, vendor and conference seems to be abuzz about it. Given all this hype, it is…

Dell’s Trademark for ‘Cloud Computing’ Raises Ire

For more on cloud computing and the enterprise, visit Internet.com’s new Cloud Computing site. Netizens have uncovered a Dell trademark for the term “cloud computing,” uncorking fears of another attempt at co-opting a popular industry term. In 2006, for example, CMP Media and publisher Tim O’Reilly acquired a service mark for the popular term “Web…