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Grazed from Virtual Strategy Magazine.  Author: Vishy Narayan.

In their relentless quest for agility and growth to attain that critical competitive advantage, enterprises look to IT for progressively effective answers. Virtualization has provided one such answer for more than two decades. Enabling enterprises to create multiple virtual machines or instances – with each instance a computing resource independent of the underlying physical hardware – virtualization helps save costs, enhance agility and go-to-market speed, create new business streams, and increase revenues. Virtualization began around the hardware platform but now spans software, memory, storage, and data…

Grazed from Network World.  Author: Chris Nerney.

A recent survey indicates that the mid-market is far from sold on cloud computing.

Conducted by SWC Technology Partners, the survey of more than 200 mid-market IT and business executives found that more than half (54.2%) of respondents reported their companies aren’t pursuing a single cloud project…

Grazed from TechTarget.  Author: Adam Riglian.

Enterprises are increasingly using cloud computing applications, but most have yet to develop plans for the new challenges they will face in cloud data quality, consistency and data governance.

According to a recently published report from Ventana Research Inc. in San Ramon, Calif., 43% of enterprises have three or more cloud-based applications deployed, with that number expected to rise to 66% in the next 12 months. However, not everyone is ready…

Grazed from CRN.  Author: Andrew R. Hickey.

Google (NSDQ:GOOG) is arming itself for cloud storage battle against Amazon (NSDQ:AMZN) and Apple (NSDQ:AAPL) iCloud with the upcoming of Google Drive, or GDrive, reports indicate…

Grazed from InfoSecurity.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Research just released by Kaspersky Lab claims to show that around a quarter of companies (23%) see the cloud as a threat to their IT security.

Grazed from Nikkei Times.  Author: PR Announcement.

Fujitsu Ltd. said Monday that it has developed a server for cloud computing systems that is four times as fast as conventional machines.

The new server pools central processing units, hard-disk drives and other hardware components, linking them together via high-speed interconnects. Fujitsu clocked the input/output throughput at roughly 2 gigabits per second, compared with the 0.5 gigabit per second of conventional servers…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author:  PR Announcement.

Datapipe, a leading provider of managed services and infrastructure for IT and cloud computing, announced today the public availability of the industry’s first PCI DSS 2.0 Level 1 Service Provider certified cloud computing platform. The offering couples a custom PCI certified cloud infrastructure with a suite of managed security services to enable PCI compliance…

Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Joe McKendrick.

Who wouldn’t want access to well-tested, well-crafted services, managed by skilled technicians, and be charged only by usage? Who doesn’t want to become an online, tech-savvy operation? These are all good, but with the promises (and hype) of cloud come the realities — concerns about security, as well as availability of cloud service providers…

Grazed from ZD Net.  Author:  Dan Kusnetzsky.

GigaSpace’s Uri Cohen recently introduced me to the company’s offering that allows Java-based applications to be run on top of Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform. He pointed out that the goal was to make it possible for organizations to take advantage of the availability, scaleability and cost advantages of Microsoft’s cloud computing environment without also having to re-write the applications…