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  VMware launches network-savvy cloud service

  VMware has launched its long-anticipated public infrastructure as a service (IaaS), touting its virtual networking capabilities as a differentiator from other established hybrid cloud offerings.

  By Joab Jackson | 21 May, 2013 19:16

  Tags: cloud computing, internet, Infrastructure services, VMware

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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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  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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  SAP builds out HANA platform and ecosystem

  Anyone remotely within the orbit of SAP lately knows that its number-one focus is the HANA in-memory database and development platform. At this week's Sapphire conference in Orlando, the vendor sought to show the progress it is making in both building out HANA's capabilities as well as attracting developers and partners to HANA.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 16 May, 2013 18:35

  Tags: Amazon Web Services, Internet-based applications and services, applications, enterprise resource planning, data mining, cloud computing, internet, data warehousing, VMware, Hasso Plattner, business intelligence, sapphire, databases, SAP, software

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  SunGard brings cloud service to disaster recovery

  Can the old guard in business continuity and disaster-recovery services thrive in an era when the companies are looking at new ways to process business data? SunGard Data Systems, with decades of experience in availability services, is feeling the pinch as some business clientele move data to the cloud. But SunGard says it's pushing forward with innovations that are making it a public cloud provider as well with the kind of application availability it says will be hard to match elsewhere.

  By Ellen Messmer | 15 May, 2013 21:57

  Tags: sungard, security, Cloud, Apache Foundation, SunGard Availability Services, Wide Area Network, cloud computing, internet, VMware, Gartner

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  5 excellent uses of Windows 8 Hyper-V

  Windows 8's bare-metal virtualization layer is a great way to create an app sandbox, run a test machine, launch a VHD appliance, and more

  By Serdar Yegulalp | 05 December, 2012 11:16

  Tags: Microsoft Windows, Windows 8, Microsoft, Microsoft Hyper-V, Windows, virtual desktop, software, operating systems, VMware, virtualization

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  IT's new concern: The personal Cloud

  As personal and professional Clouds converge, IT's mission to improve productivity while protecting corporate apps and data is getting tougher.

  By Robert L. Mitchell | 20 May, 2013 10:14

  Tags: consumerization of IT, dropbox, private cloud, IT management, cloud computing, internet, VMware

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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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  13 events that defined Cisco's 2012

  From software defined networking challenges to killing Cius and corporate restricting moves, it was a busy year for Cisco.

  By Jim Duffy | 12 December, 2012 17:58

  Tags: year-end 2012, Linksys, Networking, Cius, Application Control Engine, John Chambers, VMware, LAN & WAN, emc, Cisco software, Cisco Systems, SDN, cisco

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  Cloud computing showdown: Amazon vs. Rackspace (OpenStack) vs. Microsoft vs. Google

  It wouldn't be a mischaracterization to equate the cloud computing industry to the wild, wild west.

  By Brandon Butler | 03 December, 2012 13:14

  Tags: amazon, Amazon vs. Rackspace, Google Cloud, Amazon vs. Google, Microsoft cloud, cloud computing, internet, Amazon Cloud, Apple, catalyst, Gartner, microsoft azure, Google, vs. Google, Cloud, OpenStack, VMware

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  Gartner: How big trends in security, mobile, big data and cloud computing will change IT

  When you go to a Gartner conference one of he main things you'll notice is the sheer volume of data they can generate on just about any IT topic. Last week's Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Fla., was no different. The conference, attended by some 9000 executives focused on the changes security challenges, mobile computing, big data and cloud will be bringing to IT in the near future.

  By Michael Cooney | 30 October, 2012 14:39

  Tags: Configuration / maintenance, telecommunication, ios, infrastructure management, Android, internet, LAN & WAN, Apple, Gartner, consumer electronics, Google, Microsoft, smartphones, Mobile OSes, software, VMware, x86, applications, Networking, Windows, hardware systems, mobile, operating systems, cloud computing, Data Center, management

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