Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Ken Hess.

Today, VMware quietly announced its acquisition of Sunnyvale, California-based PacketMotion. The ultimate significance of this purchase is realized in Dean Coza’s whisper-soft blog entry announcing the transaction. This action removes virtualization and cloud computing adoption fears for the companies that are still holding out on making the move from physical to virtual due to security concerns. PacketMotion’s products audit all activities that occur between users and computing resources. No user makes a move in a PacketSentry protected environment without the Sentry knowing about it…

Grazed from Market Wire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Next week at VMworld(R) in Las Vegas, NV, Cisco CSCO +0.20% will unveil the latest networking and computing innovations to help VMware and Cisco customers to increase network scalability, infrastructure performance, and enhance their security for virtualized data center and cloud computing environments…

 

Grazed from TMCNet.  Author: Carrie Schmelkin.

Abiquo (News – Alert) has had a pretty active summer so far – from tripling its cloud management business in the first half of 2011 to announcing the general availability of Abiquo 1.8, the latest version of Abqiuo’s flagship Enterprise Cloud Management solution, to receiving the Cloud Computing World Series accolade for Best Cloud Management Solution. And fortunately for service providers, enterprises and developers out there looking for cloud management solutions, Abiquo is showing no signs of slowing down…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Maureen O’Gara.

There is now a new Amazon web service called ElastiCache meant to put users closer to frequently accessed data and maybe ward off some Amazon competition.

It’s supposed to make it easy to deploy, operate and scale an in-memory cache for any web application running in Amazon’s cloud, reportedly granting Amazon customers one of their most fervent wishes, and replacing what AWS CTO Werner Vogels calls homegrown "operational muck."…

Grazed from PR NewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the City of Dubuque, Iowa today announced the availability of the Smarter Energy Cloud in Dubuque, Iowa. The cloud, or internet-based computing, will enable citizens to access information about their energy usage and habits and share best practices through an electricity portal/website over a six-month period. The electricity portal is now available to volunteer households in Dubuque…
 

Grazed from CIO.  Author: Bernard Golden.

In discussions about cloud computing and in comments readers leave on my blog posts, I commonly get statements along the lines of "Yeah, this cloud computing stuff sounds great, but at the end of the day, you have to have an IT guy solving problems like they’ve always done." In personal interactions, I often hear this sentiment portrayed as, "Public cloud computing is fine for the SMB and startup market, but enterprises aren’t ready to move to that model." The tone of much of this feedback is that anyone who advocates cloud computing is at best naive or at worst incapable of understanding the real details of IT…
 

Grazed from Network Computing.  Author: Frank Ohlhorst.

Analysts from North Bridge Venture Partners, GigaOM Pro & 451 Group agree – the need for hybrid cloud solutions is growing. The joint "Future of Cloud Computing Survey, 2011" performed by those analysts, reports that 39 percent of cloud users say that the hybrid cloud is currently part of their strategy, with this number expected to grow to 61 percent in the near future. This is the result of both private and public cloud users evolving towards the use of a hybrid strategy…