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Grazed from Computer Weekly.  Author: Cliff Saran.

HP is packaging up its servers, storage, network equipment, management tools and consultancy services in a bid to help businesses implement and rollout pre-configured systems. The strategy, called the HP Converged Infrastructure Solution includes modular, energy efficient data centre designs, cloud and virtualisation based on Hyper-V, VMWare, Citrix or Xen and applications like real-time analytics and data warehouses.

Grazed from Computer Weekly.  Author: Cliff Saran.

CIOs and anyone involved in IT procurement should assess the benefits of leasing and alternative financing over making capital purchases for new IT equipment, software and services. Cliff Saran looks at the options.

Grazed from Server Watch.  Author: Kenneth Corbin.

Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: Stacey Higginbotham.

Grazed from IBNLive.  Author: PR Announcement.

Chief Executive Steve Jobs returns on Monday to the stage at San Francisco’s Moscone center to take the wraps off what investors hope will be the next source of growth for the world’s most valuable technology company.

Jobs, who has been on medical leave for months and last took the stage in March to present the iPad 2, will unveil the iCloud, a Web-based service that lets consumers stream music they bought to any Apple device, pitting it against rivals Google Inc and Amazon.com Inc.

That expansion into cloud computing is seen as crucial if the company is to stay competitive with increasingly popular open-sourced software, such as Google’s Android operating system, according to analysts and investors.

The iCloud has the potential to make Apple’s iTunes even more powerful, making it tougher for rivals to keep up, Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu said…

Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Sue Marquette Poremba.

When I talk to people who deal with network security on a daily basis, I often ask how they feel about cloud security. The reaction I get is usually mixed. Some love it, but a surprising number are very wary about it, and more than a few have resisted the move to the cloud because they don’t trust the security. I’m not the only one who has noticed this trend. My colleague Arthur Cole wrote:

Grazed from IT Wire.  Author:  Peter Dinham.

In its latest market analysis and forecasts for the Australian software market, IDC says that the appetite for software in Australia is being driven by cloud delivery models and software solution convergence, with CIOs and IT managers now having a “myriad” of delivery options – on-premise, private and public clouds.

This will see the market grow from $5.8 billion in 2010 to $9 billion by 2015, according to IDC, with the research firm predicting that the middleware and integration layers underpinning the application environment are set to remain a critical focus through to 2015.

Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: Sinclair Schuller.

Grazed from MIT Technology Review.  Author: Christopher Mims.

The next version of the Windows OS will run on everything from phones and tablets to desktop PCs, and it will feature, front and center, apps built in HTML5, CSS, and Javascript.

Which are precisely the technologies used to build apps that run in the Web browser.

Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: Katie Fehrenbacher.