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Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Kevin L. Jackson.

Despite the myriad benefits of cloud computing solutions, several challenges still exist. Being a young industry, there are few tools, procedures or standard data formats or service interfaces in place to guarantee data, computer application and service portability. As evidenced with the recent situation involving the services failure of Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, outages can be a potential risk—and can have widespread implications for consumers of cloud services. This risk becomes even more severe if a mission-critical environment could be impacted…

Grazed from GigaOM.  Author:  Winston Damarillo.

The open source movement has the potential to empower developing countries to use IT as an important national resource — to communicate to its citizenry, expand its educational platform and address national disasters. Open source software is not only free from license restriction; it is also free to be used as a basis for innovation, allowing custom solutions for the unique context of specific issues faced by developing nations. But for many nations, software is not enough…

Grazed from Reuters.  Author: Editorial Staff.

As sales of smartphones soar and companies shift data to cloud computing, the outlook for the makers of the switches, routers and other gear to manage networks may not be as gloomy as recent share market performance suggests…
 

Grazed from E-Commerce Times.  Author: Sundar Raghavan.

Business users are drawn to the cloud. Of course, that’s not surprising, considering they tend to see only the benefits: self-service freedom, scalability, availability, flexibility, and the pleasure of avoiding various nasty hardware and software headaches…

Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Ken Hess.

Today, VMware quietly announced its acquisition of Sunnyvale, California-based PacketMotion. The ultimate significance of this purchase is realized in Dean Coza’s whisper-soft blog entry announcing the transaction. This action removes virtualization and cloud computing adoption fears for the companies that are still holding out on making the move from physical to virtual due to security concerns. PacketMotion’s products audit all activities that occur between users and computing resources. No user makes a move in a PacketSentry protected environment without the Sentry knowing about it…

Grazed from Market Wire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Next week at VMworld(R) in Las Vegas, NV, Cisco CSCO +0.20% will unveil the latest networking and computing innovations to help VMware and Cisco customers to increase network scalability, infrastructure performance, and enhance their security for virtualized data center and cloud computing environments…

 

Grazed from TMCNet.  Author: Carrie Schmelkin.

Abiquo (News – Alert) has had a pretty active summer so far – from tripling its cloud management business in the first half of 2011 to announcing the general availability of Abiquo 1.8, the latest version of Abqiuo’s flagship Enterprise Cloud Management solution, to receiving the Cloud Computing World Series accolade for Best Cloud Management Solution. And fortunately for service providers, enterprises and developers out there looking for cloud management solutions, Abiquo is showing no signs of slowing down…