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Telstra goes live with cloud portal and pricing

By David
Grazed from ITNews.  Author:  Brett Winterford.

Telstra has launched a cloud computing portal to open up the purchase and provisioning of virtual servers to the small and medium business market.

The telco, which has been trialling cloud computing services with early adopter customers under the ‘Network Computing Services’ brand for over 12 months, has launched a self-provisioning engine for virtual servers at http://cloud.telstra.com…

November 8, 2011 Off

Survey says Interest in deploying open-source clouds is rising

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Grazed from CNET.  Author: Dave Rosenberg.

As interest in open-source cloud computing continues to grow, a new–albeit self-interested–survey shows that users are looking to move from experiments to production deployments.

Today, systems management software provider Zenoss released the results of what they’ve titled the "OpenStack Adoption Survey". (OpenStack is an open-source cloud operating system.) The data was culled from 772 surveys filled out at the recent OpenStack Conference in Boston and the Zenoss open source management community…

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Cloud Blurs The Definition Of A Partner

By David
Grazed from CRN.  Author: Andrew R. Hickey.

The cloud has blurred the lines between IT and business and it has also spawned a host of different definitions highlighting exactly what is the cloud and who sells into it.

In a keynote presentation Monday at the Cloud Channel Summit in Mountain View, Calif., Amy Anderson, IBM (NYSE:IBM) Cloud Computing Partner Program manager, took the cloud definition-bending one step further and noted that the cloud is also single-handedly creating new camps of solution providers with different disciplines and specializations…

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How Does Cloud Computing Work?

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Grazed from Elite Telecom.com.   Author: Editorial Staff.

Despite an enormous amount of coverage on the internet, television and no doubt in the workplace, for some unknown reason ‘cloud computing’ and, by association, ‘cloud telecommunications’, are terms that remain some of the most enigmatic of modern technological parlance…

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Hybrid Hosting Adds to Cloud Options

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Grazed from Internet Evolution.  Author: Mary Jander.

Question: What do you get when you cross old-fashioned off-site hosting with virtualized servers and cloud computing?

Answer: Hybrid hosting.

Oh, and hybrid hosting can be part of your hybrid cloud. Got that?…

November 7, 2011 Off

Software Pricing Starts to Catch Up to Cloud Computing

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Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Michael Vizard.

One of the more confounding aspects of cloud computing is that software pricing is frequently out of sync with the way hardware is acquired. IT organizations can easily pay for hardware on an hourly, monthly or yearly basis. Software pricing, on the other hand, has generally remained tied to the number of processors being used on a yearly basis…

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AppRiver to Present at the 2011 Cloud Computing Expo

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Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

AppRiver, a leading provider of email messaging and Web security solutions, today announced that Brian Haynes, director of channel sales for AppRiver, will be a featured speaker at the 2011 Cloud Computing Expo. The conference is taking place November 7-10 in Santa Clara. The full agenda can be found at: http://cloudcomputingexpo.com/event/schedule…

 
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Google Channel Chief To Cloud VARs: ‘We Need You’

By David
Grazed from CRN.  Author: Andrew R. Hickey.

Cloud computing creates tremendous opportunities from the channel, and cloud vendors will rely heavily on the channel as the cloud drives a technological sea change, Google (NSDQ:GOOG) Enterprise Director of Channels and Business Development Stephen Cho said…

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Next Generation Preps for Cloud Containers

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Grazed from Data Center Knowledge.  Author: Rich Miller.

Can Wales become a destination for modular data centers? Next Generation Data (NGD) has prepared the top floor of its massive facility in Newport, Wales to house containerized data centers.

The 140,000 square foot space includes just four pillars, which NGD executives say has made it ideal for a major modular deployment, perhaps for a U.S. cloud computing provider seeking to add capacity in Europe. The new space spans one of the three floors at the 750,000 square foot NGD facility, with the other two floors housing traditional raised-floor data center space…