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IBM Gives First Glimpse Into Cloud Sales

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Grazed from InformationWeek.  Author: John Foley.
 
How much revenue is IBM pulling in from cloud computing? Steve Mills, senior VP of the company’s software and systems business, has provided the first clue, revealing to InformationWeek that IBM’s software-as-a-service revenue is now in the "hundreds of millions of dollars."…
  
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In the Open Source Cloud Race, Support Will Differentiate the Players

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Grazed from OStatic.  Author: Sam Dean.

Open source cloud computing solutions are proliferating, as businesses and organizations demand flexible solutions for deploying public and private cloud applications. Among these solutions, OpenStack remains one of the highest profile examples, with vendors ranging from Hewlett-Packard to Dell to Citrix supporting it. Increasingly, OpenStack will face off with Eucalyptus Systems, which we’ve covered since its inception here at OStatic. In a piece for InfoWorld, Savio Rodrigues makes some good points about why Eucalyptus Systems may win organizations over and outpace OpenStack in the long run…

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Scality: Private Cloud Storage is Cheaper than Public Cloud Storage

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Grazed from TMCNet.  Author: Mandira Srivastava.

Cloud computing is buzzing word these days. However, consumers, enterprise owners, network service providers are still skeptical about the proper use of public or private cloud.

Addressing storage industry, Scality (News – Alert) CEO, Jérôme Lecat introduced why Scality RING, the storage solution from organic storage pioneer Scality, is the most cost-effective storage technology for building private clouds…

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Dome9 centrally manages cloud server firewalls

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Grazed from Network World.  Author: Brian Musthaler.

Organizations with any sort of data center face the challenge of managing and securing access to numerous servers in both local and distributed environments. Now as companies move to virtualized environments and cloud computing, the same security and device management issues are growing exponentially…

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Agiliance Wins 2011 Computing Security Awards

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Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Agiliance(R), Inc., the leading independent provider of Security and Operational Risk Management solutions for Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) programs, today announced that the Agiliance Continuous Compliance Service(TM) (CCS) for Cloud Risk Management (CRM) has been named the Best Cloud Security Solution of the Year in the prestigious 2011 Computing Security Awards…

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Enteracloud Identifies Top 5 Emerging Cloud Computing Trends

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Grazed from TMCNet.  Author: PR Announcement.
 
Enteracloud, a leading provider of cloud computing and cloud connectivity solutions released today a whitepaper documenting the top five emerging cloud trends. With the impact of cloud computing gaining significant traction worldwide, CIOs and CTOs are becoming so comfortable with the cloud that some important trends are emerging with respect to CIOs’ cloud usage…
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Cloud computing investment accelerates

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Grazed from Financial Times.  Author:  Paul Taylor.

Leading global banks and other members of the Open Data Center Alliance, a group of more than 300 companies representing over $100bn in annual IT spending, are adopting cloud computing much faster than previously thought…

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Dell to expand Taiwan Design Center staff for cloud computing business

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Grazed from DigiTimes.  Author: Aaron Lee.

Dell on November 3 announced additional investment in Taiwan to mainly expand staff at its Taiwan Design Center from 600 members currently to 700 in an attempt to strengthen its ability to provide cloud computing solutions for business users in the Taiwan market…

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Success in the Cloud Begins with Integration

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Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Bob Moul.
 

Now that cloud computing has turned from an “if” to a “when” proposition, enterprises of all sizes are asking a lot of questions beginning with “how.” How will we make the transition? How much will it cost? How long will it take? And perhaps most importantly, how high a return will we see?…