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Green IT, Cloud Computing to Impact Data Centers: Report
According to IT research firm Gartner, Inc., four forces currently operating in the market could result in data center space requirements that will shrink dramatically before the decade is out. These include smarter designs, energy efficiency pressures (or green IT), the realities of high-density environments, and the potential of cloud computing. The company recommended that…
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HP Sets Cloud, WebOS and Analytics as Top Strategic Priorities
SAN FRANCISCO—In his first meet-the-press-and-analyst conference, new Hewlett-Packard chief executive Leo Apotheker on March 14 laid out in both general and in specific terms where he wants to take the IT giant in the next two years. In the process, Apotheker revealed that HP is about to roll out a new platform-as-a-service business for cloud…
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Private Cloud Computing No Safer than Public Cloud
Many IT departments have put off public cloud deployments in favor of private cloud virtualization projects under the guise of security concerns — but new findings show that these private cloud deployments may be no more secure than their public counterparts. That’s good news for managed service providers with the right security chops and infrastructure…
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WaveMaker Acquisition a Smart Move for VMWare
When VMware’s Rod Johnson talks, people tend to listen. One person who clearly is listening to Johnson — general manager of VMware’s SpringSource division — is Paul Maritz, CEO of VMware, who commissioned Johnson to acquire WaveMaker and its Spring-based visual development tool that enables “non-expert” programmers to build Web applications quickly and easily. The…
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Channel Headlines – Mardi Gras Week Edition
Image via Wikipedia Heard of a little something called the cloud? You can’t venture anywhere these days without hearing the cloud buzzword. But that’s with good reason. Cloud is fundamentally changing how people and businesses consume technology and how vendors, telcos, and IT solution providers operate their businesses. Maybe that’s why Michael Capellas, former Compaq…
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VMWare Launches Cloud Control Platform
VMware already supplies the world’s most popular virtualization layer for IT systems. Now the company wants to become your handy-dandy cloud computing operations provider. VMware on March 9 launched a new platform, VMware vCenter Operations, which centralizes and automates administrative control of dynamic virtual and cloud environments. The new package provides visibility throughout a private…
