IBM announced an agreement to acquire Emeryville, California-based Aspera, which helps companies securely speed the movement of massive data files around the world.

There was a wide range of causes for data center downtime in 2013. The year's major outages covered the spectrum, affecting clouds, companies, payment networks and governments at the federal, state and local level. Here’s our list of the Top 10...

Splunk acquires network data capture provider Cloudmeter, Egnyte secures $29.5 million from big name investors for its enterprise file sharing platform, and Cleversafe expands its object storage capabilities.

Box gets $100 million to aid global expansion, the University of Florida selects DDN for converged infrastructure, HP helps Norfolk County harness big data, and SAP NetWeaver, a new rapid-deployment for near-line storage.

Groupon might seem like a place where application development happens fast. But engineers weren't able to move quickly enough, prompting the company to make a major architectural move over the past year to Node.js.

As cloud evolves, so does the job of the IT professional. Find out why big data, new application delivery models and security are key for the cloud architect.