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Grazed from LinuxInsider. Author: Jay Lyman.

VMware continued its embrace of open source software with its recent acquisition of open source and virtual network provider Nicira. The move continued VMware’s aggressive M&A strategy and its effort to transition from proprietary software and virtualization to a broader market and cloud computing, largely through open source software.

With previous open source software acquisitions that have included Rabbit Technologies’ RabbitMQ messaging, Zimbra email and collaboration and SpringSource, VMware seems to have found it paramount to participate and integrate with open source software technology and communities, despite its heritage as a strictly proprietary virtualization vendor…

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Sourya Biswas.

For those who follow basketball, Michael Jordan needs no introduction. For the rest, here are the basic facts. Jordan holds the NBA (National Basketball Association) records for highest career regular season scoring average (30.12 points per game) and highest career playoff scoring average (33.45 points per game).

In 1999, he was named the greatest North American athlete of the 20th century by ESPN. His biography on the National NBA website states, “By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time.” Now, what has this got to do with cloud computing?…

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

Secure-24 — a leading provider of cloud computing, application outsourcing and enterprise hosting services — announced today that it has been designated by Cisco Systems as a Premier Certified Partner.

Cisco’s certification requires a consistent level of product knowledge and technical expertise, along with use of Cisco’s network solutions. Secure-24 surpassed Cisco’s technical competency requirements in the integration of computing and security technologies…

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Rick Blaisdell.

Everyone is talking about the cloud. Business applications are moving to the cloud. The shift from traditional software models to Internet based solutions has steadily gained momentum over the last 10 years. The next decade promises new ways of collaboration, via cloud computing and mobile devices.

Life before cloud computing for traditional business applications was always quite complicated, not to mention expensive. The amount and variety of hardware and software required to run them was daunting. You needed a whole team of experts to install, configure, test, run, secure, and update them.

Cloud computing is becoming ubiquitous in today’s businesses, particularly when taking into account the rising popularity of free SaaS applications like Dropbox and Google Apps, among others. For IT decision makers, dreams of migrating all back-end and mission-critical applications to the cloud is now becoming a reality…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

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…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

HP today announced new virtualization software solutions that simplify, automate and secure the movement of virtual machines (VMs) and data in cloud environments, providing clients with increased agility for addressing dynamic market opportunities.

In legacy infrastructures, moving a VM workload such as a Microsoft® Exchange application between data centers requires hundreds of complex, manual device-level configuration steps. Data mobility is similarly challenging because storage requires a physical deployment that consumes floor space, power, cooling and infrastructure investment, which locks clients into a proprietary environment…

Grazed from BusinessWorld Online. Author: Herns A. Hermida.

Local companies are now adopting cloud-based, capex-free business solutions that enable them to be more flexible, cost efficient and globally competitive. It is a paradigm shift where money usually spent on maintaining expensive, in-house or on-premise hosted applications, turn into savings, sans the need to invest heavily on hardware, software licenses, or IT personnel dedicated to maintaining these systems.

With the cloud, companies are now able to quickly implement easy-to-use enterprise applications for internal use, resulting in a far more productive workplace because of employees’ ability to work anywhere on any device, and helping the company focus on its core business and generate revenue earlier than otherwise projected…

Grazed from The Hindu Business Line. Author: Editorial Staff.

Bangalore-based Torry Harris Business Solutions, a company specialising in mobile app development and cloud integration, today announced the launch of a cross platform ‘Touch application’ for mobile phones. The application helps customers manage and track their usage of the cloud computing services provided by Amazon (AWS).

The mobile application for smart phones called ‘Easy 2’, provides additional features such as tracking usage of the cloud service across different regions around the globe along with obtaining a detailed view of each such usage and being able to browse through updates of the AWS blog…

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.

IT may still be wrestling with the notion of cloud computing, but chief financial officers already believe. According to a Google-sponsored study, 96 percent of CFOs believe that "cloud computing provides their business with quantifiable benefits." Almost as good, 94 percent said the cloud will be important to the success of their companies, and just over half of those agreed that cloud computing "offers better value" than traditional approaches to computing, including outsourcing.

Some of the benefits CFOs saw most include significant capital and operational savings, better security (you heard right), and productivity gains that come from the ability to work from any device.

The study surveyed 800 CFOs and other top financial executives at companies with 500 or more employees in both the United States and Europe. Even with the obvious caveat that a cloud study sponsored and released by Google — a top service provider — could hardly come to an anticloud conclusion, the study still provides notable data points…

Grazed from Midsize Insider. Author: Sean Drew.

It has certainly been an interesting few weeks for cloud-based storage companies, with Dropbox facing security questions after an embarrassing breach and Box securing a new round of funding that values the company at over a billion dollars. These two contrasting headlines prove that while the cloud storage industry still has some significant questions to answer, it is here to stay and only growing in popularity for businesses.

The Dropbox Fiasco

The Dropbox situation began when users started to get spam through their email addresses associated with the site. Several users reported that Dropbox was the only site that they used that address with, leading many to speculate about a hack…