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<item><title>Vordel Offers On-Ramp to the Cloud</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:30:50 -0500</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Vordels Cloud Service Broker enables businesses to aggregate services between public and private clouds, and those of partners. Vordel officials say the product reduces businesses concerns around trust and reliability when using cloud services by bringing together services from the multiple domains and enabling companies to monitor and manage them.<br/>   -  Vordel is looking to make it easier for businesses to adopt cloud computing.
Vordel, known for its governance products, is rolling out its Cloud Service
Broker, a tool designed to manage multi-domain services across enterprises,
their partners and cloud service providers.
The company unveiled th...]]></description>
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<item><title>Amazon Girds for Cloud Battle with Microsoft</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:13:20 -0500</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Stating that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has a solid footing in the infrastructure-as-a-service business, Werner Vogels, chief technology officer of Amazon.com, noted that new companies entering the cloud computing space will need to compete on the merits to gain credibility.<br/>   -  BALTIMORE Stating that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has a solid footing in the infrastructure-as-a-service
business, Werner Vogels, chief technology officer of Amazon.com, noted that new
companies entering the cloud computing space will need to compete on the merits
to gain credibility.
Speaking at...]]></description>
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<item><title>Large Crowd Gains Insight into Future of Cloud Computing</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:46:40 -0500</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Most of the 30 or so sessions on Day 1 of the Cloud Computing Conference   Expo were well-attended, and the three main presentations in the late afternoon were packed to standing-room-only status. That there exists plenty of hunger for information on this topic is a no-brainer.<br/>   -  SANTA CLARA, Calif. There may be a worldwide recession that is cutting back travel for many people, but don't tell it to the organizers and attendees of the fourth annual Cloud Computing Conference  amp; Expo, which opened Nov. 2 and is being held here at the Convention Center through Nov. 4.

Mos...]]></description>
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<item><title>Cisco, EMC, VMware Join Forces for New vBlock Cloud Systems</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:14:14 -0500</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[The coalition -- along with processor maker Intel -- also announced that it is starting up a new, shared-equity company called Acadia to handle the specifics of marketing the new vBlock systems. vBlocks are preintegrated, preconfigured computing systems consisting of networkware from Cisco, storage/security/system management from EMC, and virtualization software from VMware.<br/>   -  Three IT giants networking leader Cisco Systems, virtualization expert VMware and storage provider EMC revealed Nov. 3 that they have formed a new joint venture, the Virtual Computing Environment, to produce cloud computing systems called vBlocks that integrate hardware and software from all three c...]]></description>
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<item><title>Unisys Unveils Private Cloud Offering</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:23:52 -0500</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Four months after rolling out its Secure Cloud Solution for public cloud customers, Unisys is offering the software and services in a prepackaged solution for enterprises that want to build a private cloud computing environment. The move is the latest step by Unisys to offer a full cloud computing portfolio, and will be followed by a hybrid offering in 2010.<br/>   -  Unisys officials in June rolled out a public cloud offering that they said
addressed the key concern for businesses looking at the new computing model:
security.
Now Unisys is looking to offer the benefits of its Secure
Cloud Solution to enterprises interested in creating an internal cloud
envi...]]></description>
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<item><title>Yahoo Puts GeoCities Out of Its Misery</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:41:27 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Yahoo made good on its long-standing promise to pull the plug on GeoCities, its free Web hosting service, later in 2009. Originally acquired by Yahoo for $3.6 billion in 1999, GeoCities lost ground to social-networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook, as well as blogs, all of which offered the ability to quickly create sites using templates and tools.<br/>   -  Yahoo finally shut down GeoCities, its free Web hosting service, on Oct. 26. Despite
being a sentimental favorite of many who built Websites through GeoCities in
its heyday, the service found itself losing both market- and mind-share over the
years to newer offerings. 

Yahoo
originally acquir...]]></description>
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<item><title>Amazon Launches Relational Database for the Cloud</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:36:27 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), a new Web service that makes it easy to set up, operate and scale relational databases in the cloud. The database is based on the MySQL platform, the company said.<br/>   -  Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the Amazon Relational
Database Service (Amazon RDS), a new Web service that makes it easy to
set up, operate and scale relational databases in the cloud. 
Amazon RDS provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while
automating time-consuming database ad...]]></description>
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<item><title>How to Ride the Cloud: A CIO's Guide to Changing Roles</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:15:40 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[The recession is dramatically changing the software industry's playing field, forcing companies to innovate and evolve to remain competitive. The CIO's role is changing too, as CIOs look to reduce software costs and employ a pay-per-use, flexible model. This shift is driving the emergence of virtual private cloud operators, which is changing infrastructure components, the product life cycle and the ecosystem as a whole. Here, Knowledge Center contributors Anand Deshpande and Ashok Korwar share tips on how CIOs can navigate through this changing landscape.<br/>   -  That the landscape of business across the world has changed drastically since the financial meltdown and the worldwide recession hardly seems worth mentioning. In this article, we take a close look at what the new landscape may look like in the coming months and years to a typical CIO running the IT...]]></description>
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<item><title>Predictive Analytics Fuels New Uses for Cloud Computing</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:24:40 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Interest in cloud computing architecture still remains largely theoretical for many corporations. However, a growing number of enterprise companies are diving into the cloud to perform complex calculations on very large data sets. One such application thats fueling greater awareness of cloud computing's ability to impact the corporate bottom line is in the field of predictive analytics, allowing companies to create models that can predict customer behavior and other critical business information. In this video, Baseline Contributing Editor Steve Kovsky talks with Dr. Michael Zeller, cofounder and CEO of Zementis, and a leader in the field of open source cloud computing and predictive analytics.<br/>   -   Video Content....]]></description>
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<item><title>Google Talks Up Chrome Operating System as Windows 7 Launches</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:21:09 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Web applications such as Gmail and Google Wave are paving the way for major adoption of the Google Chrome Web browser and fueling the forthcoming Chrome Operating System, says Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management at Google, speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit Oct. 22. In fact, Web apps made it imperative for Google to create Chrome. Pichai's points about Chrome OS and managing user data in the cloud are interesting in relation to Microsoft's launch of Windows 7 in New York.<br/>   -  SAN FRANCISCO A
Google executive said complex Web applications such as Gmail and Google Wave
are paving the way for major adoption of the Google Chrome Web browser, which has racked up more than 30 million active users since its launch in September 2008.

Rich Web applications are also fueling t...]]></description>
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<item><title>How to Avoid Cloud Computing Failure</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:21:32 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[With the current shift to cloud computing, companies have a great opportunity to improve network flexibility, scalability and computing power for less money. If they correctly plan, employ and manage cloud computing applications and services, companies can also manage their networks at a much lower maintenance level. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Dave Kofflin outlines five guidelines companies need to understand before they can benefit from cloud computing.<br/>   -  To
the novice IT manager, a shift to cloud computing may appear to be the
answer they have been looking for to solve many of their network
problems. No longer will their team have to worry as much about large
infrastructure deployments or complex server configurations. However,
diving in a litt...]]></description>
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<item><title>Key to Enabling Internal Clouds</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:20:47 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Virtualization has been widely embraced for its ability to rein in costs, lower TCO, and get higher utilization out of IT resources. To date, IT organizations have focused on how to scale-up virtualization on a single server. That is, the focus has been how to run more virtual machines on one machine. Increasingly, the attention today is shifting to how to scale-out efforts where virtual machines and virtual instances of applications are distributed across multiple servers. This, in essence, creates an internal cloud that allows companies to virtualize IT services throughout an enterprise.<br/>   -   Video Content....]]></description>
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<item><title>Cloud Testing Comes to the Fore</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:51:16 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[CSC and SOASTA, a provider of cloud testing environments, form a partnership in which CSC will integrate SOASTA CloudTest with CSC's Trusted Cloud Services and testing and development methodology. Meanwhile, Zeus Technology updates its Zeus Traffic Manager Web performance tool.<br/>   -  Computer Sciences on Oct. 20 announced a partnership with SOASTA, a provider
of cloud testing environments, in which CSC
will  quot;integrate SOASTA CloudTest into CSC's
Trusted Cloud Services and testing and development methodology, quot; the
company said in a news release.
 quot;Web applicati...]]></description>
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<item><title>NaviSite Announces NaviCloud Cloud Computing Platform</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:47:18 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Hosting company NaviSite is looking to give businesses an alternatives to public cloud offerings such as Amazons EC2. Leverage new tech-nologies from Cisco, VMware, IBM and Intel, NaviSite is offering an enterprise-level cloud computing platform that is highly scalable and usage-based. It also runs over three of its data centers, giving NaviCloud users built-in disaster recovery.<br/>   -  Hosting company NaviSite is using the latest technologies from Cisco Systems, IBM, Intel and VMware to create a highly scalable and on-demand managed cloud computing platform for enterprises.
NaviSite on Oct. 13 unveiled its NaviCloud Managed Cloud Services offering, which leverages such technologi...]]></description>
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<item><title>G2iX Morph CloudServer Appliance Is Based on IBM BladeCenter</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:11:48 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Manila-based G2iX is offering its Morph CloudServer, an appliance housed in an IBM BladeCenter solution designed to make it easier for businesses to get a private cloud up and running. G2iX is using the same industry-standard technologies as those used by Amazon and Eucalyptus. The Morph CloudServer supports Linux, Solaris and Windows, as well as Java, Ruby on Rails and PHP.<br/>   -  A company called G2iX is offering an appliance based on IBMs BladeCenter system designed to give businesses an easy and affordable way to create a private cloud computing environment.
G2iX or Global Gateway Innovation Exchange introduced its Morph CloudServer Oct. 7 at the ITU Telecom World confere...]]></description>
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