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Microsoft 'committed' to Hyper-V OpenStack Support

The OpenStack community is considering dropping support for Hyper-V

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Megaupload User Content Safe for Two More Weeks

Efforts are intensifying to retrieve data belonging to potentially millions of users of Megaupload's online storage service following the company's dramatic shuttering by U.S. law enforcement authorities earlier this month.

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HP Extends Asset Mapping Into Amazon, VMware Clouds

HP's Discovery and Dependency Mapping Advanced package now can find your IT assets in the cloud

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Salesforce.Com Launches Desk.Com Help-Desk Service

The service for small businesses is the result of Salesforce.com's Assistly acquisition

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Juniper's Financial Challenges Continue

Juniper Networks' challenges are due to timing with new product rollouts and shifts in investments from customers and channel partners.

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Salesforce.Com Customers Say New Analytics Should Be Included in Core Fees

Users are angry at the extra cost tied to the upcoming Analytics Edition, saying the core product's reporting function has long been lacking

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CloudPassage Launches New Security Product for Public Clouds

The company's Halo NetSec product tackles the tough problem of securing servers in the cloud

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Logica Says Cloud is 'Railway of 21st Century'

Logica has described cloud computing as "the railway of the 21st century", claiming that the community clouds it is building with Microsoft will help to promote sharing and collaboration among like-minded companies.

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Tech Titans Talk: The IDG Enterprise Interview Series

In the IDG Enterprise Interview Series, you'll hear from technology CIOs and CEOs on today's burgeoning trends, ongoing headaches and upcoming product plans. Check out this informative series from IDG Enterprise Chief Content Officer John Gallant and his team of editors.

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How to Document Cloud Design Decisions

The whole point of the cloud is that it's location-independent and flexible. But that strength is also a weakness when design decisions are highly distributed and need to be coordinated.

 
Virtualization and cloud are driving new requirements for data center network performance, VM support, automation and simplified orchestration. This paper outlines Extreme Networks® open fabric approach to high speed, low latency networks for modern data centers.
On March 14, IBM announced "Smarter Commerce", a strategic initiative that addresses the surging market for Commerce 2.0 solutions that take advantage of the convergence of a number of disruptive software and hardware technologies.
Enterprise storage has undergone many changes in recent years - with converged storage and infrastructure 2.0 paving the way for reduced IT infrastructure costs and greater performance. This report discusses the latest trends that are setting the stage for the next era of computing. Learn about the new infrastructure and storage trends that are changing the way business storage works today.
In most companies, the needs of the business are outpacing what IT can deliver. Technology is the foundation and enabler of business innovation, but developing and implementing new solutions is resource-intensive. Integrating and optimizing islands of IT is complex, time-consuming and costly.

However, implementing a private cloud can be complex and daunting. HP's solution, CloudSystem Matrix, helps you build a turnkey private cloud environment to deliver the benefits of the cloud to your business users. Read now to find out how the HP CloudSystem Matrix can enable you to move quickly to a private cloud model.
Cloud computing continues to grow in popularity among the IT industry. And more businesses are advertising that they are the front runner for providing the best cloud services. However, in this race to remain top dog, IT pros remain unsure of what cloud computing is and the benefits it can bring to their organization.
This white paper examines IT management challenges from a fundamental and system standpoint. In addition, it introduces the concept of a service-oriented and automated approach to IT management.
Join guest speaker, Rohit Mehra, IDC Director of Enterprise Communications Infrastructure, to explore current trends, discuss best practices for optimizing Data Center and enterprise campus network infrastructures for the Cloud, and identify ways to better allocate network resources, reduce operating costs and improve application performance.
VMware recently announced VMware vFabric™ Data Director, a new database deployment and operations platform that enables enterprise IT organizations to offer database as a private cloud service. Built on top of VMware vSphere 5, vFabric Data Director enables IT organizations to ontrol database sprawl through automation and consistent policy enforcement and accelerate application development cycles with self-service database management. Attend this webcast to learn how vFabric Data Director can help you build database-as-a-service in your datacenter.
InfoWorld contributing editor and consultant David Linthicum offers expert advice about choosing services to outsource to the public cloud providers, cloud data security and identity, integrating public cloud services, and how to avoid provider lock-in.
In this exclusive Virtual Briefing Center session from Microsoft and IDG, you'll discover how deploying Windows 7 Enterprise now will help you take advantage of this new environment. Learn through a series of videos, audio webinars and rich downloadable resources how to power today's flexible workstyles with Windows 7 Enterprise.
Cloud deployments are playing a critical role in propelling innovation for many companies. At the same time security has become the #1 one of the top concerns for IT and business leaders as they migrate into the cloud. In this webinar, learn from Accenture discusses how to recast the cloud as a "fresh chance to rethink your approach to security."
As greater numbers of datacenter servers transition from the physical to the virtual world, the components of virtualization success come to the fore. What scores of organizations have discovered is that success is derived from an optimal pairing of the right software platform with the right hardware platform.
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