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IDC: The Time to Embrace Cloud Computing is Now
SAN JOSE, Calif.—IDC’s frontman, Senior Vice President and Chief Analyst Frank Gens, sees a significant fork in the IT road in 2011 similar to one that happened 25 years ago. Back in 1986, PCs and desktop computers were 5 years old and starting to work their way into daily use in dedicated enterprise networks and…
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Amazon Revamps Its Virtual Private Cloud Service
Amazon Web Services, which launched its first product (Simple Storage Service) five years ago this month, revealed March 15 that it has redesigned the access to its Virtual Private Cloud service. Users now can set up their own virtual networks within the Amazon cloud that they can control just as they control their own physical…
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Green IT, Cloud Computing to Impact Data Centers: Report
According to IT research firm Gartner, Inc., four forces currently operating in the market could result in data center space requirements that will shrink dramatically before the decade is out. These include smarter designs, energy efficiency pressures (or green IT), the realities of high-density environments, and the potential of cloud computing. The company recommended that…
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HP Sets Cloud, WebOS and Analytics as Top Strategic Priorities
SAN FRANCISCO—In his first meet-the-press-and-analyst conference, new Hewlett-Packard chief executive Leo Apotheker on March 14 laid out in both general and in specific terms where he wants to take the IT giant in the next two years. In the process, Apotheker revealed that HP is about to roll out a new platform-as-a-service business for cloud…
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Private Cloud Computing No Safer than Public Cloud
Many IT departments have put off public cloud deployments in favor of private cloud virtualization projects under the guise of security concerns — but new findings show that these private cloud deployments may be no more secure than their public counterparts. That’s good news for managed service providers with the right security chops and infrastructure…
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WaveMaker Acquisition a Smart Move for VMWare
When VMware’s Rod Johnson talks, people tend to listen. One person who clearly is listening to Johnson — general manager of VMware’s SpringSource division — is Paul Maritz, CEO of VMware, who commissioned Johnson to acquire WaveMaker and its Spring-based visual development tool that enables “non-expert” programmers to build Web applications quickly and easily. The…