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  Dell dumps OpenStack and VMware for public cloud, focuses on private clouds

  Dell has dramatically shifted its cloud computing strategy, canceling plans it once had to launch a public cloud service based on the OpenStack open source platform, and discontinuing a VMware-based public cloud it already has on the market.

  By Brandon Butler | 20 May, 2013 22:19

  Tags: Dell, Dell cloud, Cloud, OpenStack cloud, VMware cloud, cloud computing, internet, OpenStack, VMware

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  Successful companies embrace shadow IT

  Businesses move quickly, and those that make missteps along the way or fail to adapt to the times rarely go unscathed. Consider the fate of the original 12 companies listed in the Dow. While General Electric is still an independent company, most of the others have been acquired by larger companies or have vanished altogether.

  By Quinton Wall, director, technical platform marketing, Salesforce.com | 20 May, 2013 20:33

  Tags: SaaS, rogue IT, Networking, infrastructure management, wall street journal, IT management, cloud computing, Software as a service, internet, cloud apps, consumerization of IT, management, cloud app platforms, cloud app security, Cloud, general electric, shadow IT

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  The benefits of cloud-based BPM

  In 2011 Gartner's Jim Sinur predicted that business process management and the cloud would be the "real thunder." He stated that moving operations to the cloud would free up money and efforts for businesses, and those organizations would be remiss to ignore BPM.

  By Art Landro, CEO, Cordys | 20 May, 2013 20:33

  Tags: paas, BP, applications, Business Process Management, cloud based BPM, software, platform as a service, cloud computing, internet, cloud bpm, BPM, Gartner, Cloud

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  How VMware will try to shake up the Cloud market this week

  There have been rumors and speculation. There have been whispers and rumblings. But this week VMware is expected to release details about its plans to launch a public Ccloud offering, the central part of its new hybrid Cloud strategy.

  By Brandon Butler | 20 May, 2013 16:17

  Tags: Amazon Web Services, VMware public cloud, Microsoft, Cloud, VMware cloud, cloud computing, internet, vCloud Director clouds, VMware, rackspace, Google

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  Newvem expands to monitor Azure and Amazon clouds

  Newvem, which sells a tool that allows users to track and optimize their use of cloud computing resources, has expanded its software's functionality to monitor not just Amazon Web Services, but now Microsoft Azure now as well.

  By Brandon Butler | 17 May, 2013 16:29

  Tags: amazon, Amazon Web Services, Azure cloud, Microsoft, Cloud, Microsoft cloud, cloud computing, cloud watching, internet, Amazon Cloud

• Get 5GB of free cloud-sync storage from SugarSync

  Wouldn't it be cool if you had a "magic" folder on your PC, one that automatically synced its contents with the Web, your other PCs, your cell phone, and other devices?

  By Rick Broida | 11 November, 2010 09:42

  Tags: application development, Web services development, web, Cloud, Utilities, web services, backup, software, cloud computing, internet

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  What the man behind HP's new internal IT plan has in mind

  As someone who spent billions with HP over 20 years while in IT leadership roles at Boeing and Verizon Wireless, John Hinshaw knew the big hardware, software and services company from the outside as well as anyone. In the year-and-a-half since becoming executive vice-president of technology and operations at HP, he's been putting that knowledge to use on the inside.

  By Bob Brown | 23 April, 2013 15:06

  Tags: boeing, Networking, infrastructure management, HP SDN, internet, cloud computing, LAN & WAN, HP, John Hinshaw HP, management, HP Networking, SDN, Cloud, HP cloud

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  Cloud tools abound. Is enterprise IT ready?

  The sky is the limit for both the number and the types of tools that will eventually help enterprise IT fully embrace the cloud, say industry analysts and cloud integration experts.

  By Christine Burns | 08 April, 2013 11:00

  Tags: Configuration / maintenance, Cloud, hardware systems, Data Center, cloud computing, internet

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  Top 10 Cloud tools

  Cloud vendors are delivering boatloads of new tools to help enterprise IT build, buy, manage, monitor, tweak and track Cloud services. These tools are designed to help IT execs free up their budgets and their staff so both can be used towards more strategic, line of business projects.

  By Christine Burns | 08 April, 2013 11:00

  Tags: Cloudyn, Configuration / maintenance, Cloud, hardware systems, Tracker, Data Center, cloud computing, internet

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  Amazon's biggest competitor in the Cloud: Salesforce.com?

  Who is Amazon's biggest competitor in the cloud?

  By Brandon Butler | 04 April, 2013 20:11

  Tags: Amazon Web Services, Salesforce.com cloud, Salesforce cloud, Salesforce.com, cloud computing, internet, OpenStack, VMware, rackspace, Amazon Cloud, Google, Microsoft, WD, Cloud, Joyent

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  Who has responsibility for Cloud security?

  As more organisations leverage the Cloud for critical business applications, they are discovering one of the greatest challenges is combining existing internal controls with cloud protection efforts.

  By John Dix | 25 March, 2013 20:09

  Tags: Configuration / maintenance, security, Cloud, hardware systems, Data Center, cloud computing, CIO, internet

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