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Grazed from Datamation. Author: Sean Michael Kerner.

Cloud computing relies on the ability of networks to scale effectively. HP is now expanding its network scalability efforts in a series of new efforts announced today.

The new HP Ethernet Virtual Interconnect (EVI) is a technology that enables up to eight different data centers located in different geographical locations to easily be interconnected. The EVI technology is a software upgrade for HP FlexFabric core switches.

In contrast with simply moving virtual machines from one data center to another with a software-based solution like VMware’s vMotion, the EVI approach is somewhat different.

Piston Cloud Computing, Inc., the enterprise OpenStack™ company, today announced it will provide live demos of Cloud Foundry™ BOSH integration with Piston Enterprise OpenStack™ at the 2012 VMworld® Conference. This community open source project allows the Cloud Foundry Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) to run on OpenStack. With cooperation from VMware®, Piston Cloud will distribute and support this new integrated capability in the next release of their flagship product, Piston Enterprise OpenStack.

Cloud Foundry is the leading open source PaaS offering with a fast growing ecosystem and strong enterprise demand. OpenStack is a global collaboration of developers and cloud computing technologists producing the ubiquitous open-source cloud computing framework for building public and private clouds.

Bluelock, a certified VMware vCloud Datacenter provider of Virtual Datacenters hosted in the public cloud, announces continued strong enterprise growth as the company closes out the first half of 2012. Bluelock continues to witness rapid adoption of its Virtual Datacenters (VDCs) within the midsize and large enterprise and expanding its footprint within the industry, with new customers including organizations such as VMware vFabric Application Director , F5 Networks, eMeter (Siemens), Codesigned, and Pitney Bowes. Bluelock’s growth in its Virtual Datacenter revenue exceeds 50% on a year over year comparison.

The company also continues to gain national recognition within the industry, being named to Network World’s list of “10 most powerful IaaS companies,” CRN’s 2012 100 Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors list, Nine Lives Media’s Talkin’ Cloud 100 report and having Bluelock CTO Pat O’Day included in a “Top 10 Cloud Influencers, Thought Leaders ” feature on Wired.com. All of this comes on the heels of Gartner, Inc. positioning Bluelock in the “Leaders” quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in December 2011.

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Seth Bernstein.

Companies are embracing cloud computing solutions because of their flexibility, scalability and cost-effectiveness, and those who have successfully integrated the cloud into their infrastructure have found it quite economic. They can expand and contract, and add and remove services as per requirement, giving them a lot of control over the resources being used and the funds being spent on those resources. This highly controllable environment not only cuts the costs of services, but also saves funds that are spent on the infrastructure of the company.

Replacement of Personal Computers with Personal Clouds

Cloud computing is not only becoming popular in business, but also among individual consumers. With the passage of time, personal computers are being replaced by personal clouds, and more and more companies are offering personal cloud services. People prefer to store their images, videos and documents online, both as a backup and to make them secure. Storing data on personal clouds makes it available anytime, anywhere. You just need a computing device and an Internet connection, and you can access all your photos, videos and documents…

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.

Cloud computing is a hyped-up term, a recent report from Gartner found. But behind the hype there are significant benefits to some technologies in the cloud industry and some of the terms being floated around in the cloud are bigger buzzwords than others.

"The cloud" is a broad term that encompasses many different technologies, similar to the way the Web or the Internet have many different aspects to it, Gartner says. And many of the individual aspects of the cloud computing industry each have their own degree of hype surrounding them. Gartner attempts to put this all in perspective by using its Hype Cycle formula to evaluate more than three dozen specific technologies within cloud computing…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

HotLink hopes to simplify the management of hybrid clouds run on VMware vCenter with the launch of a new vCenter plug-in that natively supports both Amazon EC2 (NASDAQ: AMZN) and CloudStack resources. HotLink Hybrid Express for VMware vCenter is being positioned as a tool to accelerate the deployment of on- and off-premise hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Cloud computing integrators can’t really complain about anything that makes it simpler to deploy infrastructure — as long as it makes good on its promise, that is. HotLink is making big promises with Hybrid Express. According to the vendor, using Hybrid Express can reduce the deployment of hybrid cloud infrastructure from weeks to just a few hours by using existing vCenter management infrastructure…