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Grazed from iStock Analyst.  Author: PR Announcement.

Cisco has announced the introduction of new networking and computing solutions to enable VMware and Cisco customers to increase network scalability, infrastructure performance, and enhance their security for virtualized data center and cloud computing environments…
 

Grazed from Delimeter.  Author: Renai LeMay.

Microsoft has attempted to dampen concerns about US Government access to Australian information hosted in American cloud computing facilities by claiming cooperation between governments would likely mean either country’s law enforcement branches could get access data they wanted anyway — regardless of where it was hosted.

Over recent months, Australian cloud computing companies such as Macquarie Telecom-backed Ninefold have raised worries about legal jurisdictions with regard to cloud computing facilities. For example, in mid-July the company warned any datacentre set up by global rival Amazon Web Services in Australia would still be subject to US legislation, despite being located in a different jurisdiction. And earlier that same month, the company highlighted a case in the US which saw the FBI seize a number of servers at the US-based datacentre operated by DigitalOne, without informing customers hosted in the facility about the raid…

Grazed from Press Enterprise dot com.  Author: Richard Rubin and Juliann Francis.

State sales tax systems created to generate revenue from face-to-face exchanges of tangible goods are struggling to keep up with the rapid shift of business transactions into the so-called cloud of the Internet.

As more companies use cloud-based servers and software, which are remote networks of computing resources often shared by multiple customers, the 20th-century rules of taxation no longer apply. Instead, accountants, lawyers, state tax officials and companies such as Google Inc., Apple Inc. and NetSuite Inc. are working to develop new guidelines for taxing the use of these emerging technologies…

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…