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This week, we take a long look at Icehouse, the latest OpenStack release, delve into TryStack, a way to experiment with OpenStack and learn about a startup that hopes to use OpenStack to understand data from the Internet of Things.

The cloud is having a huge impact on the enterprise, so much so that it's actually altering the roles of IT and end users alike --and not surprising each party sees the cloud through a different lens.

We've been hearing rumors of an Amazon smartphone for years, and lately those rumors are heating up again --this time with some cool 3D effects. But it's going to take more than some gimmicks to get people to switch from the dominant players: Apple and Samsung.

This week, Microsoft takes a shot at Internet of Things in the cloud and how retailers and SMBs can take advantage of the cloud.

While it seems clear enough that that the role of IT is changing, it's always nice to have some actual data to back that up, and a new survey by Avanade found that expectations about IT really are changing and that's having a huge impact on IT 's role inside organizations.

This week includes news from the Red Hat Summit, the challenges faced governing a project the size of OpenStack and Ubuntu beefs up OpenStack support.

Surely, you've heard of Bring Your Own Device, but did you know that's only scratching the surface of the Bring Your Own movement because once you empower people with a super computer in their hands the flood gates open to the idea of BYO-e where e stands for everything.

This week look at how moving to the cloud requires a cultural shift in IT, VMware embracing the BYO movement and McKinsey finding IT needs stop resisting the cloud.

This week, we look at HP embracing OpenStack, inside Telestra's move to OpenStack and Cisco's CIO explaining the advantages of OpenStack.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Google Compute Engine teamed up this week to provide a way for customers to move an instance of RHEL to the cloud with a single vendor to help ease the move and smooth over any issues that might develop.

As I listened to former Apple evangelist and author Guy Kawasaki speak last week at the AIIM14 Conference about enchanting your customers it occurred to me that what he was saying applied to many areas including IT. As Kawasaki said, try defaulting to "yes" and watch what happens.

This week, we look at Google turning serious about the cloud in the enterprise, dealing with cloud outages and surprising results about the Snowden revelations and their impact on cloud buying habits.

IT has always been a profession that's continually evolved, and yet there seems to be a firm resistance to the latest changes around consumerization, mobile and the cloud by some in the profession that's really hard to understand, especially in that historical context.

I've tried a number of Chromebooks. The $249 Samsung was too clunky and had a lousy keyboard and trackpad. The $280 HP Chromebook 11 was pretty, but too slow. The $1500 Pixel was gorgeous, but way too expensive. But the $300 Acer c720p touchscreen Chromebook? It was just right.

This week, we look at Cisco's billion dollar cloud bet, get a look at IceHouse, the latest version of OpenStack and define Database as a Service.

This week I look at the growth of OpenStack jobs, the beautiful combination that is Trove and Cassandra and the pros and cons of a multi-vendor cloud strategy.

This week, we look at the open source OwnCloud enterprise product, the link between cloud and big data and how VMware beat AWS to the Desktop as a Service punch.

IT has had to struggle with an ever-shifting variety of devices over the last few years. In part, the Bring Your Own Device notion rose because IT simply couldn't keep up with it all. Now, there is a new category about to enter business: wearables --and while you might think this is far fetched, chances are it's going to happen sooner or later.

This week, the battle for the OpenStack Paas soul, is RedHat getting too powerful and the most popular Linux OS used in OpenStack implementations.

At South by South West this morning, Box CEO Aaron Levie predicted a future in which the generic Box app, which is the most popular use of the service now, would take a back seat to custom apps built on top of the Box platform to meet the needs of specific verticals and individual services.