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Virtualization Draws Record Crowd to VMWorld 2010
Plenty of IT events during the last two years have been "ghost towns," in the words of at least one respected IT analyst, Charles King, and he's right. However, this year's seventh annual VMworld conference and expo at San Francisco's Moscone Center belied that is far from that image. More than 17,000 people roamed the show floor, crowded technical meetings, and heard VMware executives and their industry partners talk about their technology "road maps" in general sessions. Virtualization continues to be a huge topic of discussion. Following are some snapshots of various parts of the show, which ends Sept. 2. (All photos by Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK) - ...Comment on Article Mentions: Intel Hewlett-Packard Dell
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VMware Expands Cloud Infrastructure Strategy, Introduces New Products to Drive IT as a Service
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VMware, Inc. announced six new products and services that help enterprises and service providers achieve the benefits of cloud computing while maintaining the control and freedom of choice they require. IT as a Service is the transformation of IT to a more business-centric approach, focusing on outcomes such as operational efficiency, competitiveness and rapid response. This means IT shifts from producing IT services to optimizing production and consumption of those services in ways consistent with business requirements. This changes the role of IT from a cost center to a center of strategic value. “Enterprises are embracing a new model of infrastructure to deliver IT as a Service through hybrid cloud computing,” said Raghu Raghuram, senior vice president and general manager, virtualization and cloud platforms, VMware. “The products and services we are launching today provide a comprehensive enterprise architecture that will deliver the agility and economics of the cloud with the ... -
Multi-tenancy: why you should care
SaaS buyers shouldn't settle for the limited horizons of single-tenancy. Multi-tenancy is the ideal architecture to make the most of the cloud environment, because it continually evolves to keep...Comment on Article Mentions: Cloud Computing
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VMware's Maritz Predicts Hybrid Cloud Future
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Private clouds inside the enterprise will trade workloads with similar, VMware-based public clouds rendering physical data centers "quite fluid," according to CEO Paul Maritz.
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Will Public Cloud Open up a Can of Worms?
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IT and risk managers want to know, if they take advantage of cloud opportunities, what are the real impacts to their business for security, compliance and manageability? Will my applications perform the same way? Will I need to hire or retrain people? These unknowns are causing some businesses managers pause. They’re attracted by the promise of lower cost and greater agility but nervous about the implications of cloud. People often ask me: Will public cloud open up a can of worms? The answer is, it depends how you go about it. Let’s discuss a few primary concerns that must be addressed before businesses can take their first confident steps into the public cloud. Manageability. If you’re consuming services in a hosted environment, that gives you a much lower operating cost, but does the physical distance from the environment add complexity? You certainly don’t want to have to create separate processes ...Comment on Article Mentions: PivotLink
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With Clouds Everywhere, It Is Bound to Rain
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I was pondering the weather in Northeast Wisconsin this morning, it’s gloomy and oppressively hot. Between heat and humidity, I’d say it felt more like the US’s Pacific Northwest than the Midwest. And it’s been image that way all summer. We’ve been plowed under with 80+ percent humidity for months, and every once in a while the temperature dips to remind us that we’re in Wisconsin. It is the last day of August, tomorrow is September, when cool and wet is supposed to start converging upon us. It will be a relief after months of hot and humid. But the one thing we’ve had plenty of this summer? Rain. Lots and lots of rain. Like I said, Pacific Northwest. read moreComment on Article Mentions: Cloud Security Alliance CIO Don MacVittie
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Identity Management in Cloud Computing
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Web-services research and protocol applications have been around and in use for quite some time now. With the potential Capex and Opex savings enterprises can potentially realise from utilizing a cloud computing service model, there should also be added focus on ensuring that security is properly implemented either in authentication or authorization. Cloud Computing, with its foundation in the world of virtualization, can take advantage of key aspects of web service implementations and security practice; but only to a point. Web service policies are based on a static model that is known, defined, regulated and contained. However, with Cloud Computing, these dynamics change. We can assert that within the cloud environment we deal with a heterogeneous digital ecosystem that is dynamic in nature. read more
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Private Clouds: Not as Easy as it Looks
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A strange dichotomy is forming around the emerging market for private clouds. Despite, or perhaps because of, the relatively slow uptake of the technology so far, vendors continue to introduce ever-more-simplified cloud startup packages. At the sameComment on Article Mentions: Bill Claybrook At&T YouTube
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HP and VMware to Accelerate Private Cloud Computing
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To help customers better control and manage the physical and virtual aspects of cloud infrastructure, VMware and HP are creating an integrated, comprehensive cloud infrastructure solution combining the new VMware vCloud Director with the HP BladeSystem Matrix and HP Cloud Maps. The HP Cloud Map for VMware vCloud Director can be directly imported into customers' Matrix environments to rapidly deploy new VMware vCloud infrastructure. Through the integration of Matrix and VMware vCloud Director, customers can easily scale virtualized resource pools to quickly adjust to changing business demands. The integration will be available as a technology preview by the end of the year. read more
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Security-As-a-Service Growing
When you ask IT professionals if they use cloud computing or software-as-a-service, most start by saying "no". But if you ask some follow up questions, you will quickly find out about "that one application" that is a SaaS application.
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Novell Makes Cloud Security Service Generally Available
Novell has made its cloud security service available following successful beta trials.
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Hybrid Cloud Computing Best Practices
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Hybrid Cloud Computing Best PracticesChannel InsiderThe approach provides companies with control over mission critical functions and legacy operations while moving more portable applications to a cloud model. ...and more »Comment on Article Mentions: Intel
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Citrix Buys VMLogix
Citrix plans to announce Monday that it will buy VMLogix as part of a larger push to offer more self-service tools and address concerns like vendor lock-in facing enterprises using the cloud.
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Organizing Sensitive Data in the Cloud
What does a cloud vendor do to properly segment various types of sensitive data within its cloud? Gregory Machler discusses how to capture the metadata you'll need.
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From M&A to R&D, Cloud is Driving IT Activity
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Still wondering if cloud computing is the real deal, if it will find its way to a data center near you? Whether they’re buying, building or buddying up, vendors are surrounding their core competencies with everything they’ll need to compete in an increasingly integrated IT market.
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