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Grazed from NetworkComputing.  Author: David Hill.

As with any large trade show, the vast multitude of attendees at the recently-concluded VMworld 2011 were exposed to a cornucopia of products and services that staggers the imagination. Making sense of how those solutions fit into the modern world of IT is more difficult, although virtualization and cloud computing are two useful categories. Still, the big picture that VMware continues to emphasize is that a trio of disruptive trends is simultaneously transforming IT: infrastructure renewal, applications development and end-user computing. Understanding these trends is necessary not only to comprehend what new products and services can do today, but also to get a better perspective of what is likely to happen in the future…

Grazed from CIO.  Author:  Sandra Gittlen.

When auto parts supplier Inteva Products LLC spun out from its parent company Delphi in 2008, CIO Dennis Hodges was left standing in a heap of legacy ERP equipment.

Inteva’s global manufacturing facilities, engineering sites and Troy, Mich.-based headquarters were each running multiple stand-alone servers. As Hodges explains, "the servers were anywhere from five to eight years old and difficult to keep running and patched."…

Grazed from VentureBeat.  Author:  Sean Ludwig.

Cloud phone service RingCentral has raised an additional $10 million in funding, with a goal of expanding its size and scope.

RingCentral offers cloud computing-based business phone systems to more than 200,000 customers. The service essentially makes small businesses appear larger than they are and gives them less-expensive tools to compete with bigger companies when it comes to phone services. RingCentral offers things like multiple voicemail boxes, call routing, auto-receptionist, extension dialing, call transfers and smartphone integration…

Grazed from CMS Wire.  Author:  Geoff Spick.

HP in the Clouds

HP this week announced a private beta program for HP Cloud Services. Aiming to offer HP Cloud Compute and HP Cloud Object Storage to users, based on HP’s hardware and software combined with OpenStack technology, the company will be looking to take on the likes of Amazon and others in the cloud space…

Grazed from The Escapist.  Author:  Brian Albert.

Nolan Bushnell believes cloud computing can fix the "nightmare" that is modern education.

In what might be confused as a doomsday prophecy, game industry legend Nolan Bushnell described some glaring faults of contemporary American education, including broken computers and maladjusted teachers. The fix, he recommends? A unique, game-based education program delivered via cloud computing technology, similar to what’s being used on the modern videogame landscape…

Grazed from BioIT World.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Eagle Genomics has announced that it has found a way to slash the amount of time it takes to store genomic information using cloud computing technology. The hope is that storing sequencing data and analyses in the cloud will allow researchers quicker access, which in turn would enable faster diagnoses…

Grazed from InfoWorld.  Author: David Linthicum.

What’s a cloud broker? Gartner defines it as "a type of cloud service provider that plays an intermediary role in cloud computing." Perhaps better put, they help you locate the best and most cost-effective cloud provider for your needs…

Grazed from BusinessWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Grazed from Data Center Knowledge.  Author: Kevin Normandeau.

Like many technologies, Cloud Computing was perhaps over hyped in the short run and its impact underestimated in the long run. If you are struggling to gain insights on where Cloud Computing technology is heading you are in luck because the CLOUD2 Commission was recently appointed by the Obama Administration to study the current state and future of Cloud Computing. These finding will be presented in a webcast on October 4, 2011 at 1:00 PM Eastern…