Happy fifth birthday, cloud computing

	VMware CEO: Cloud to end computer desktop era | Infosys offers business platforms from the cloud
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	Happy fifth birthday, cloud computing Dell's unveiling of a cloud infrastructure today comes five years to the month after Amazon announced its Elastic Compute Cloud beta, which may well have been the first service to call itself a cloud. Read More WHITE PAPER: Xsigo Systems Building a Faster VDI Infrastructure at Less Cost This note summarizes the cost and performance challenges of the VDI infrastructure, and the solutions offered by new fabric-based solutions. Learn why next-gen cloud architectures increase overall VDI performance while reducing complexity. Read now. In this Issue VMware CEO: Cloud to end computer desktop era Infosys offers business platforms from the cloud VertNet: The cloud gets some real backbones Linux at 20: New challenges, new opportunities VMware launches cloud-packaged Postgres The challenges of competing with cloud computing providers Cloud-based storage improves disaster recovery at Situs Dell to launch public cloud service this year Convirture unveils enterprise cloud management console WHITE PAPER: Xsigo Systems Guide: Converged Infrastructure for the Private Cloud This guide discusses the infrastructure challenges of the next-gen private cloud. Traditional networks limit flexibility and increase your workload. Read this 24-page guide to learn about new fabric architectures that virtualize connectivity to increase efficiency and accelerate management by 100X. Read now! VMware CEO: Cloud to end computer desktop era VMware CEO Paul Maritz urged customers to think beyond the desktop computer. It is a dead metaphor, he insisted, one ill-suited for today's workforce. Read More Infosys offers business platforms from the cloud Infosys, India's second largest outsourcer, is offering business platforms on a subscription model from the cloud, as part of its strategy to focus on intellectual property to boost revenue, the company's new CEO and managing director said. Read More VertNet: The cloud gets some real backbones The University of California at Berkeley is spearheading a major effort called VertNet to store and make publicly accessible via the cloud some 84.3 million records on vertebrates from around the world. Read More WHITE PAPER: CenturyLink Business Maximizing The Cloud To Your Needs Today's enterprise is increasingly IT-dependent and network-based, requiring agile IT infrastructure sourcing approaches to meet rapidly changing business objectives. See how a dynamic, cloud-based infrastructure can flexibly supports key business needs—and whether it's right for your organization. Read now! Linux at 20: New challenges, new opportunities The rise of cloud computing and mobility could elevate the open source OS to a level of unprecedented dominance. Read More VMware launches cloud-packaged Postgres Augmenting its line of software to support cloud deployments, VMware has created a package for running the Postgres database in a virtualized environment, the company announced Monday. Read More The challenges of competing with cloud computing providers In discussions about cloud computing and in comments readers leave on my blog posts, I commonly get statements along the lines of "Yeah, this cloud computing stuff sounds great, but at the end of the day, you have to have an IT guy solving problems like they've always done." In personal interactions, I often hear this sentiment portrayed as, "Public cloud computing is fine for the SMB and startup market, but enterprises aren't ready to move to that model." The tone of much of this feedback is that anyone who advocates cloud computing is at best naive or at worst incapable of understanding the real details of IT. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Moving to a Cloud-based Delivery Model Help Desk software as a service is attractive to many IT departments. It offers the same benefits of traditional IT help desk solutions, in addition to reducing capital expenses, accelerating implementation, and providing easier upgrades. This paper explores considerations for implementing IT service management in-house or as a service. Read Now! Cloud-based storage improves disaster recovery at Situs When Bill McCown joined The Situs Companies six years ago, the Houston-based real estate consulting firm was anticipating growth, and the company figured its tape-based backup systems would need to be upgraded. Then came September 2008, when Hurricane Ike slammed into Houston. "Our data center stayed up but our office didn't have power for a week," recalls McCown, who is the director of IT for the firm. Read More Dell to launch public cloud service this year Dell will launch its first cloud infrastructure service later this year through a partnership with VMware, continuing its push to move beyond PCs and into higher-margin software and services. Read More Convirture unveils enterprise cloud management console Convirture, a provider of open source, cross-platform virtualization management tools, has announced new software designed to allow enterprises to manage private clouds, hybrid clouds and virtualized infrastructures from a single console. Read More
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