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Dell, Microsoft, VMware Partner on vStart Cloud System
Back in April 2011, Dell, Microsoft and VMware got into a three-way marriage to co-develop private cloud systems. As nature would have it, nine months after the consummation of the deal, the partnership is resulting in new offspring. On Jan. 25, the trio came out with vStart, a new preconfigured cloud system server that the…
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VMware Delivers New vCenter OPs Suite for Public, Private Cloud
VMware’s latest stab at accelerating customer cloud adoption comes in the form of VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite, which is the newest piece of VMware’s comprehensive management portfolio. The vCenter Operations Management Suite is designed to simplify and automate the operations of virtual and cloud environments. Ideally, the product will make it easier for enterprise…
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Cisco to Leverage Routers, WAN to Connect Enterprises to the Cloud
Cisco Systems continues to be the dominant player in the increasingly competitive router space, and executives are looking to push that advantage going in 2012 by extending the solutions strategy they say is the company s key differentiator. Over the past year-plus, Cisco has aggressively brought services–such as security and collaboration–onto its Integrated Service Routers…
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HP Committing webOS to Open Source by September
Technology giant Hewlett-Packard began executing its plan to deliver an open webOS by committing to a schedule for making the platform’s source code available under an open-source license. The company said it aims to complete this milestone in its entirety by September. The webOS code will be made available under the Apache License, version 2.0,…
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F5 Launches Firewall for Data Centers
F5 Networks has launched a data center firewall designed to protect public-facing websites from cyber-attacks while also competing with other vendors in the space on both traffic capacity and cost. According to Dean Darwin, vice president of worldwide channel sales at F5 Networks, customers are beginning to recognize that the application delivery network is a…
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Growth Continues to Accelerate for Private Clouds
Just like the Energizer bunny, the adoption of private cloud technology keeps going and going. A case in point is DynamicOps, a cloud services provider that has seen some 300 percent growth in the private cloud market through 2011. While DynamicOps is the latest example of a rapidly growing cloud services company, it s by…