1. Wound Care Goes ToThe Cloud

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   GWR Medical decided more than a year ago that instead of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to upgrade and maintain its own IT infrastructure supporting its wound care therapy business, it would instead pass the baton to Verizon. That's when GWR Medical made the move to the cloud. (Read Full Article)
   

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2. 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. (Read Full Article)
   

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3. Trusted Identities In Cyberspace

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   Federal IT and security pros have a role in the development of an "identity ecosystem" in cyberspace that spans the government and business sectors. (Read Full Article)
   

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4. Cloud: Professional Data Center Group Says Get On With It

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   Two years ago it would have been impossible for a professional manager’s association to produce a position paper, Guiding Data Centers to Cloud Computing. The “cloud” was still being disparaged in too many quarters. Now it’s become respectable. I miss the days when the topic was more disputable and, in some quarters, disreputable. (Read Full Article)
   

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5. IBM Rolls Out Compliance Software

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   Enhancements to BigFix platform include more than 200 upgrades in areas like virtualization management and user interfaces. (Read Full Article)
   

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6. Virtualization Heads Beyond Consolidation

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   The following case study is the first of our five-part series on the gains and pains of server virtualization. First up: Orchard Supply Hardware (Read Full Article)
   

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7. Virtualization Is IT Journey That Begins With Consolidation

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   As IT shops look at their gains from consolidating servers, they realize this was just a first step brought about by implementing virtualization. Once you've consolidated, you realize how many more steps are both possible and necessary if virtualization is going to lead to more payback. (Read Full Article)
   

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8. Oracle Intros Full Enterprise Virtualization Option

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   Executives tout advantages over VMWare's approach, including efficiency, ability to build virtual appliances out of Oracle products. (Read Full Article)
   

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9. CloudAudit Gets Real

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   For enterprises, one of the biggest challenges with cloud computing include transparency into the operational, policy and regulatory, and security controls of cloud providers. For cloud providers, one of their pressing challenges is answering all of the audit and information gathering requests from customers and prospects. CloudAudit aims to change that. (Read Full Article)
   

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10. Virtualization: Time For Careful Planning

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    Most companies have done the easy part of server virtualization. Now they need better management tools and new IT procedures to keep the momentum going. (Read Full Article)
    

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11. Real-World Software Security

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    BSIMM compares your secure development efforts to others' (Read Full Article)
    

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12. Managing The Mixed Storage Environment

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    In my last entry we covered the value of just having one device to manage. What if that is not realistic for your environment? Either you selected a storage system that won’t scale, you have business reasons for multiple units or the environment is just too large, it needs to diverse to put everything on one storage platform. You need tools to allow the different systems to be managed more easily. (Read Full Article)
    

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13. NIST Releases Virtualization Security Guidelines

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    The security of a virtualization solution is "heavily dependent" on the security of each of its components, according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology. (Read Full Article)
    

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14. Government Sees Virtualization Benefits

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    A majority of federal, state and local agencies are implementing virtualization and reaping benefits, but the public sector still lags behind the private in adoption according to CDW. (Read Full Article)
    

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15. Will We Still Be Building Data Centers In 10 Years?

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    As I look back at the timeline of technology, I can clearly distinguish a turning point in IT's evolution. I see the technology landscape in terms of "Before Virtualization" (BV) and "After Virtualization" (AV). (Read Full Article)
    

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16. How Intelligent Does Your Storage Need To Be?

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    We have always counted on storage systems to provide software based services like snapshots, RAID protection, replication and thin provisioning, but now operating systems (OS) or file systems are offering much of those capabilities. Do we need the storage systems to offer them as well? (Read Full Article)
    

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17. IBM To Acquire Network Management Specialist

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    Big Blue's deal to buy out BigFix, Inc. helps company fulfill its plan to deliver full range of smart data center technologies. (Read Full Article)
    

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18. Novell Releases Log Management Software Appliance

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    Sentinel Log Manager records events from physical, virtual, and cloud environments, either as a virtual appliance or loaded on dedicated hardware. (Read Full Article)
    

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19. The Role of IT Management In a Cloud Computing Future

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    Cloud computing won’t displace the traditional IT organization, but it will change its mandate and function. IT managers must anticipate, and learn to accommodate, how their roles will evolve. Here are a few of the new roles IT management will assume as cloud computing changes the way organizations approach and employ technology assets: Contributors: Cloud computing will help IT management focus more on business innovation than on infrastructure management. In turn, IT management must learn to judge IT processes in terms of business effectiveness and how they fit in the organization’s overall business strategy. Educators: IT management must become educators on all things cloud related for every level of their organizations. That includes everything from cloud-related standards and practices for individual workers to business-oriented cloud presentations tailored for upper management. The CIO of a large mid-western manufacturing company told me that when board members stop in his office to ask ... (Read Full Article)
    

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20. The Unvarnished Truth About VDI? Not Hardly.

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    On June 14, InfoWorld published an article titled "The unvarnished truth about VDI desktop virtualization". In it, the author, Frank Ohlhorst, makes some claims about VDI and desktop virtualization that I believe need to be addressed. (Read Full Article)
    

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21. State Of Servers: Beyond The Processor

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    The value proposition is shifting from the processor to critical peripheral decisions. (Read Full Article)
    

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22. How Many Virtual Machines Can Run On A Single Server?

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    How many user desktops can run on a virtualized server? From a structural point of view, this question has a lot in common with, "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?" Nevertheless, I did my best to answer it in the new McGraw-Hill book, Management Strategies for the Cloud Revolution. As it turns out, I was wrong. (Read Full Article)
    

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23. SAP Adds Virtualization To Its Cloud Agenda

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    Applications vendor partners with Cisco, EMC and VMware; plans more services-based apps and a July reintroduction of Business ByDesign. (Read Full Article)
    

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24. 7 Steps To Better Identity Management

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    Here's what you need to know about managing employee identities in this age of outsourcing and SaaS. (Read Full Article)
    

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