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• Commercial Success with Cloud-Ready Services

  October 6th, 2011 : Kevin Normandeau

  Are you considering optimizing your data center to deliver cloud-ready services? This technology rich white paper explains how the IT expertise of HP combined with the network knowledge of Alcatel-Lucent can help you to create a competitive infrastructure advantage. Key among the needs for such a move is carrier-grade scalability and network agility – areas of expertise that have been researched and developed by these industry leading companies. Read More

• Oracle: OpenWorld Kicks Off, Autonomy Hubbub

  October 3rd, 2011 : John Rath

  Oracle OpenWorld kicks off today with a keynote from Larry Ellison. The event follows a busy week for Oracle (ORCL), which included media jousting with Autonomy over whether the UK firm was "shopped" prior to its agreement to be acquired by HP. Read More

• Cloud News: Verizon, Nimbula, Hexagrid

  September 30th, 2011 : John Rath

  Terremark and URS certify Federal Cloud Solution, Nimbula updates Director software and expands ecosystem, Hexagrid unveils Unovie. Read More

• Open Compute and ODCA to Collaborate

  September 29th, 2011 : Colleen Miller

  The Open Data Center Alliance and Open Compute Project are working together to bring highly efficient compute infrastructure to enterprises as well as accelerate the creation and adoption of standards and interoperability in cloud computing. Read More

• A Storage Cloud for Supercomputers

  September 29th, 2011 : John Rath

  The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) has launched a large academic-based cloud storage system, designed for researchers,with extremely large data sets. Read More

• Roundup: The Bunker, Brocade, Walmart, EMC, Dell

  September 28th, 2011 : John Rath

  The Bunker loads up on Brocade gear for IPv6 transition, Walmart purchases site for Colorado Springs project, hospital selects EMC for private cloud, Dell completes Force 100 acquisition. Read More

• Microsoft Steps Up Cloud Expansion Plans

  September 23rd, 2011 : Rich Miller

  Microsoft will invest an additional $150 million to expand its new data center in southern Virginia, continuing a series of expansion announcements that hint at a dramatic scaling up of Microsoft's cloud computing capacity. Microsoft will build a second data center facility and add 21 megawatts of power capacity in Boydton, Virginia. Read More

• Puppet Labs Announces Puppet Enterprise 2.0

  September 22nd, 2011 : Colleen Miller

  Puppet Labs announced the release of its Enterprise 2.0 version today, adding cloud provisioning, change monitoring and management from a single graphic console to the Puppet platform. Read More

• Cloud News: VCE, Joyent, Arista, QTS

  September 22nd, 2011 : John Rath

  VCE Vblock serves as foundation for NASA initiative, Joyent and Arista announce Taiwan cloud, QTS achieves PCI certifications, Deutsche Telekom pushes for German cloud. Read More

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