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VMware Increases Security Offering to Prepare Security for the Cloud
Wed, 07/28/2010 - 23:15Earlier this month VMware announced two new variants of its vShield Zones (formerly VirtualShield) virtual firewall: vShield App 1.0 and vShield Edge 1.0, both available now as beta....
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Amazon CTO counters skepticism on cloud security
Wed, 07/28/2010 - 23:15Amazon's cloud computing division is planning to "raise the bar" on security, and provide better security than most enterprises can achieve on their own, says Amazon CTO Werner Vogels....
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Burton Group Highlights Five Cloud Computing Adoption Steps for CIOs
Wed, 07/28/2010 - 23:15As cloud computing moves beyond the definition phase into the adoption phase, Burton Group has identified five steps for building a better cloud adoption strategy. These steps go beyond current ad-hoc adoption methods to achieve real business objectives with cloud computing....
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New Study Sees Rise in Cloud Services Adoption Among Small and Medium Businesses in First Half of 2010
Wed, 07/28/2010 - 23:15During the first half of 2010, 14 percent of small and medium businesses (SMBs) reported using cloud computing services and another 10 percent reported plans to deploy cloud-based services, according to a new study conducted by Spiceworks, Inc....
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Research and Markets: StrataScale Announces New Cloud Computing Services, a Neovise Customer Advisory Report
Wed, 07/28/2010 - 23:15Research and Markets announced the addition of the "StrataScale Announces New Cloud Computing Services, A Neovise Customer Advisory Report" report to their offering. ...
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LinMin Releases Bare Metal Provisioning 6.0, Adding Support for Cloud Architecture and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Deployments
Wed, 07/28/2010 - 23:15LinMin today unveiled LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning Release 6.0 with Cloud, hosting and corporate data center enhancements. ...
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VMware Cloud Architecture Design: Should it be Top-Down or Bottom-Up?
Wed, 07/28/2010 - 23:15In my last blog, I discussed how to optimize workloads across the cloud. This is based on the assumption that you already have an existing infrastructure. What if you don't have an existing cloud infrastructure but would like to design one from scratch? Here is what you should be thinking about to get the most from your new cloud....
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Virtuon Offers Cloud Based Virtual Desktop
Wed, 07/28/2010 - 23:15Virtualized desktops can significantly reduce the IT time, travel and expense to support end users, but for many small-to-midsize companies, running and supporting the back-end requirements for supporting a virtual desktops, like VMware View, aren't a good trade-off....
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Cloud Computing: The Next Bubble?
Wed, 07/28/2010 - 23:15Cloud computing in simple terms is internet based computing. Software as a Service (SaaS) is software that is deployed and accessed over the internet. Saas is also called "software on demand". Both these technologies are a rage nowadays. ...
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YAH - MSDN Subscriber Benefits for Windows Azure Double
Wed, 07/28/2010 - 23:15The benefits for MSDN subscribers have now doubled the initial Windows Azure benefits by extending the offer from eight months to 16 months....
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Windows Intune Offers Desktop Management Tools in a Cloud-Based Service
Tue, 07/27/2010 - 23:13Microsoft has recently opened a beta of their new Windows Intune product. While the functionality in the Intune offering is not new, what is unique about it is the packaging. Intune is a collection of some of Microsoft's most helpful desktop management tools sold as a cloud-based service. I spoke with Alex Heaton, the Intune Group Product Manager at Microsoft to learn more. Let's take a closer look at what exactly Intune is and is not....
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Cloud Computing in plain English
Tue, 07/27/2010 - 23:13Around ten years ago the ASP model was being touted as the next great wave of technology. The ASP ?Application Service Provider model was trying to do Software as a Service (SaaS), and it didn't ever really live up to the hype. So here we are ten years later, what has changed? Technology has grown up, and hardware is dramatically more powerful than it was ten years ago. The ASP models simply didn't scale or make economic sense. We now have improved bandwidth, more powerful hardware, and the "Se...
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Workload Optimization: Is It a Must-have for Cloud Computing?
Tue, 07/27/2010 - 23:13Cloud computing hasn't changed the nature of computing ? it just changed provisioning and management. That's important to remember because workloads in the cloud are very much similar to what we see in traditional computing infrastructures. To get the most out of your investment in cloud services or in your own physical IT infrastructure, you need to understand how to optimize workloads....
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Virtualization ROI Rises, But Cloud Confusion Steals Spotlight
Tue, 07/27/2010 - 23:13While the newest version of VMware's (VMW) vSphere virtualization suite (see review here) represents a big step toward practical cloud computing, virtualization technology continues to spread based on the same basic benefits that made it popular in the first place, analysts say....
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The Cloud May Not Need Server Virtualization, But Enterprises Do
Tue, 07/27/2010 - 15:05Considering Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS), I think by far the most interesting one is PaaS. The idea behind PaaS is that the service provider manages the development environment providing the core language and libraries while maintaining a separation between customer apps and data. You can get that now with a virtual hosting environment, but PaaS adds things like scalable storage, processing capacity, networking and other neat...
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Cloud Computing a Catalyst for Virtualization
Tue, 07/27/2010 - 01:15At first glance, cloud computing can appear to be "virtualization taken to its logical conclusion." After all, if the main benefit of virtualization is to consolidate data center resources and increase the speed of provisioning, then cloud is the ultimate pay-off: don't own the resources at all and cut provisioning down to a few minutes with instant self-service gratification....
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The future of Cloud service delivery is in automation, according to Parallels CEO
Mon, 07/26/2010 - 01:15Parallels CEO Serguei Beloussov today outlined the future of Cloud service delivery by announcing the launch of Parallels Automation 5.0 (PA5.0) in his keynote presentation at HostingCon 2010....
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End-times for Server Virtualization?
Mon, 07/26/2010 - 01:15Simeon Simeonov recently posted an intriguing article on the use of virtualization in cloud computing. In it, he describes how cloud computing will soon move beyond server virtualization:...
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Rackspace Announces Open Source Cloud Platform
Sun, 07/25/2010 - 22:49Rackspace is sponsoring an open source cloud computing project, OpenStack, and contributing its own code to it in order to generate more uniform cloud environments in which customers can move around at will....
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Local Backup Meets Cloud Storage
Fri, 07/23/2010 - 11:15Intronis recently launched a major product release?our own local backup feature. This feature allows managed service providers to not only parse their critical and non-critical data, but manage it with the same Intronis software they use to manage all their offsite data. What inspired this latest move? Here's some background....
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