According to IDC, the worldwide mobile worker population is set to increase from 919.4 million in 2008, accounting for 29% of the worldwide workforce, to 1.19 billion in 2013, accounting for 34.9% of the workforce.  The United States has th... Read more

CloudFucius has explored Cloud Security with AAA Important to the Cloud and Hosts in the Cloud along with wanting An Optimized Cloud.  Now he desires the sweet spot of Cloud Application Delivery combining Security and Acceleration.  Fe... Read more

So much has been written about all the systems, infrastructure, applications, content and everything else IT related that’s making it’s way to the cloud yet I haven’t seen much discussion (or maybe I just missed it) about all the client... Read more

According to Gartner, “By 2012, 20 percent of businesses will own no IT assets.”  While the need for hardware will not disappear completely, hardware ownership is going through a transition: Virtualization, total cost of ownership (TCO... Read more

Yesterday F5 announced a holistic approach to enable a common cloud architectural model—regardless of where IT resources actually reside.  Unifying Application Delivery, Access Control and Optimization to the cloud along with ongoing... Read more

Watch how F5's WAN Optimization enables long distance VMotion migration between data centers over the WAN. This solution can be automated and orchestrated and preserves user sessions/active user connections allowing seamless migration. Erick... Read more

This question has been puzzling a few folks of late, not just CloudFucius.  The Judicial/legal side of the internet seems to have gotten some attention lately even though courts have been trying to make sense and catch up with technology fo... Read more

While companies certainly see a business benefit to a pay-as-you-go model for computing resources, security concerns seem always to appear at the top of surveys regarding cloud computing. These concerns include authentication, authorization... Read more

It used to be the ‘stuck to our side’ pagers that go off at 3am telling you that a server crashed that would keep you up at night.  You’d drag yourself out of bed (or the chair at the data center that you fell asleep in), tippy-toe to th... Read more

I remember back-in-the-day when Virtual meant ‘almost,’ ‘simulated’ or ‘in essence’ as in, ‘I’m virtually there.’  Today, as it has made it’s way into computer terminology, it can mean actual or real things that are done over computers.&#160... Read more