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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…

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…

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…

Grazed from TMCNet.  Author: PR Announcement.
 

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…

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…

Grazed from Fortune.  Author:  Kevin Kelleher.

First, Oracle ignored the cloud. Then Larry Ellison, its CEO, ridiculed the cloud. And now that Oracle is trying to buy its way into the cloud. The question is: what exactly does the cloud mean to Oracle?

That depends on how you define the cloud. If there is a standard definition, it involves computing that is not so much a product you have to install and maintain but a service you tap into like a utility. Just as you turn on your faucet or your lamp, the cloud lets you watch a movie on Netflix (NFLX) instead of going out and buying a DVD, or share a document in Dropbox instead of emailing a Microsoft Office file back and forth…

Grazed from ComputerWorld.  Author: John Gallant.

It used to be easy journalistic shorthand to write ‘database-giant Oracle Corp.’, but that labeling no longer fits a company that’s now a key player in applications, appliances, servers, development tools, operating systems and, yes, even cloud computing. How do all these components gel into a coherent plan for IT customers? What makes Oracle better than the other big integrated systems players like HP and IBM? In this latest installment of the IDG Enterprise CEO Interview Series, Oracle President Mark Hurd spoke with IDGE Chief Content Officer John Gallant about Oracle’s strategy and why the company is uniquely positioned to help IT leaders deal with the difficult challenges they’re facing today. Hurd also clarified Oracle’s stance on cloud — a position clouded — sorry — by some earlier comments from CEO Larry Ellison — and what makes Oracle’s approach better than ‘very old’ cloud solutions like salesforce.com. He explained more about customer migrations to Oracle’s new Fusion applications and discussed how Oracle plans to win in the evolving server market…