Gartner: IT should be planning, moving to private clouds

	Who needs a cloud? Microsoft sold 31 million copies of Office 2010 | Cloud CIO: In defense of corporate IT
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	Gartner: IT should be planning, moving to private clouds If speedy IT services are important, businesses should be shifting from traditional computing into virtualization in order to build a private cloud that, whether operated by their IT department or with help from a private cloud provider, will give them that edge. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Management Madness: How to Manage Mobile Devices There are six major mobile operating systems in use now and each one offers its own set of security and management challenges. The resources in this Mobility KnowledgeVault will help you keep these devices secure on the corporate network with expert tips on management tools, endpoint security software, increasing application support and more. Read now In this Issue Who needs a cloud? Microsoft sold 31 million copies of Office 2010 Cloud CIO: In defense of corporate IT Ethernet vendors racing to meet demand How the cloud changes the CIO-CFO conversation Cloud economics favor the small workload Building a more resourceful cloud Data center startups emerging to solve virtualization and cloud problems Open source is dominant in the cloud Can virtual machine and cloud systems secure PCI payment card data? HP, Toshiba collaborate on cloud computing NetApp upgrades management software for cloud systems RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: NetApp Make your move to the cloud with NetApp Transform the promise of cloud computing into real business results. Whether building a private cloud or buying cloud services, learn why companies choose NetApp storage and how they've accelerated time to market, reduced storage management costs, and achieved higher operational efficiencies. Click to continue Who needs a cloud? Microsoft sold 31 million copies of Office 2010 Microsoft is lording it over its cloud computing competitors with big sales of Office 2010. Read More Cloud CIO: In defense of corporate IT The threat that cloud computing poses to CIOs and IT professionals' careers does not stem from cloud computing rendering corporate IT departments irrelevant. Rather, it comes from CIOs' and IT professionals' failure to face the revolution that cloud computing brings and to assume much more important positions inside their firms. Read More Ethernet vendors racing to meet demand Ethernet vendors will need to develop faster products more quickly to keep up with the demand being created by mobile and cloud computing, some participants at an industry group meeting said on Tuesday. Read More WHITE PAPER: Raritan Data Center Transformations Build outs, consolidations and acquisitions are large-scale projects that can be very disruptive and require careful planning and implementation to maintain operations. This white paper examines the process and what's required to meet IT goals and objectives and maintain business continuity. Read now! How the cloud changes the CIO-CFO conversation The shift brings a new way of budgeting, making the CIO a true business partner. Read More Cloud economics favor the small workload Cloud computing may be most cost-effective when restricted to smaller jobs, a USENIX researcher notes. Read More Building a more resourceful cloud USENIX researchers are looking at ways to offer more flexible pricing and services for cloud computing services. Read More WHITE PAPER: VMware VMware Reference Architecture for Virtual Desktops This document provides a high-level summary of a reference architecture for stateless virtual desktops with VMware View™. By leveraging the tiered storage capability in VMware View to support stateless virtual desktops, organizations can lower costs by about USD $500 per desktop. Learn more. Data center startups emerging to solve virtualization and cloud problems A host of new data center startups are coming on the scene to help IT shops handle the challenges posed by virtualized infrastructures and cloud computing. Read More Open source is dominant in the cloud A new survey by some open source cloud companies released today shows exactly how prevalent and dominant open source is in cloud computing. Read More Can virtual machine and cloud systems secure PCI payment card data? Can sensitive payment card data be processed and held in virtual-machine (VM) systems or cloud-computing environments? Read More HP, Toshiba collaborate on cloud computing Hewlett-Packard and Toshiba will collaborate to push cloud computing and related services to infrastructure organizations, the companies said on Thursday Read More NetApp upgrades management software for cloud systems NetApp announced upgrades to its OnCommand management software for storage, which now allows it to plug into most leading cloud management systems. Read More
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