Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Boston – June 17, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: CoreSite Launches CloudCommunity to Help Companies Develop Cloud Strategies News: CENX and Interxion To Launch Pan-European Carrier-Neutral Ethernet Exchange News: ACS Names Senior VP and Group President News: Equinix Launches Carrier Ethernet Exchange Worldwide (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Designed to help companies transition to developing public or private clouds or in their development of new cloud applications and products, CloudCommunity is a new initiative from data center provider CoreSite ( www.coresite.com ) to provide members with data center space, power, connectivity and other variables that create a truly “live,” multi-regional, interconnected environment. According to its Monday announcement, CoreSite’s CloudCommunity provides a live test environment for companies’ cloud computing efforts at the company’s Bay Area data center in Milpitas and Los Angeles data center at 900 N. Alameda, as well as a forum to share innovation and thought leadership to help mold the future of computing, storage and communications.

Why Cloud Computing Won’t Kill IT Jobs At a recent IT End User Group focused on cloud computing, I detected turbulence. Roughly three quarters of the networking professionals and systems administrators I spoke with are afraid of losing their jobs once cloud computing evolves within their organizations. Much has been said about IT in general “going away” as enterprises move towards deploying cloud computing models