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Grazed from Cloud Storage Strategy.  Author: Steve Lesem.

Dan Decasper co-founded Cirtas with the vision of enabling the enterprise to utilize cloud storage as if it were a local array.

CloudStorageStrategy.com asked him a few questions about "Cloud Storage Controllers" and what the technology means for the enterprise. 

What was the original idea behind Cirtas?
Cirtas’ co-founders previously built a WAN optimization company that was acquired by Citrix.  Together, they saw the coming of the cloud and recognized that broad scale adoption of cloud storage would require a "catalyst" technology to make the experience seamless and high performing.  They had the expertise to develop such technology and founded Cirtas to address the market need…

Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Michael Vizard.

Hewlett-Packard is hoping that mutual self-interest will trump the internecine warfare between HP and Oracle over the latter company’s decision to hire former HP CEO Mark Hurd.

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

Grazed from GigaOM.  Author:  Katie Fehrenbacher.

Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: Om Malik.

The era of Big Data arrived in full earnest this week when IBM decided to acquire Marlborough, Mass.,-based Netezza Corporation, a maker of data warehousing analytics for a whopping $1.7 billion in cash. IBM’s decision came hours after Oracle announced a cloud-based Exadata Elastic Service at Oracle World in San Francisco.

Grazed from ComputerWorld.  Author:  Chris Kanaracus.

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison unveiled his company’s entry into the private cloud computing system battles on Sunday, upping the stakes between Oracle and rivals like IBM and Hewlett-Packard.

Grazed from Network Computing.  Author: Robert Mullins.

HP and Oracle have announced their combined effort to deliver hardware that runs Oracle business software in a private cloud environment. It’s one of a number of announcements by tech companies working with Oracle at the annual Oracle Open World convention in San Francisco. Storage vendor EMC is also announcing a number of new consulting services intended to help customers move their Oracle applications and EMC storage into a private cloud.

Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: Katie Fehrenbacher.

Grazed from CIO.  Author:  Stephanie Overby.

The traditional IT outsourcing industry will be dead in five years, AT Kearney’s Arjun Sethi predicted in a recent interview with our sister site CIO.com. The culprit? Cloud computing services. Sethi’s vision of the future of the IT services industry is quite clear, but he’s unsure of the specific implications this industry transformation poses to traditional IT outsourcing customers.

Grazed from ComputerWorld.  Author:  Joab Jackson.

VMware is among a number of companies in talks to purchase Novell, according to reports in the Wall Street Journal.

Novell is reportedly looking to split up the company and sell it in separate pieces. It is now in "advanced talks" with at least two buyers, including VMware, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday.