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10 Steps to Private Cloud

For private clouds to become viable, organizations must embrace several steps to advance their private cloud strategies.

Survey: Cloud-Based Unified Communications Gaining Traction

Unified communications adoption in the United States has doubled over the past year, and many organizations are moving their UC implementations to the cloud.

Datacenter Budgets Flat, But Overall IT Spending Rises

The vast majority of datacenter managers say their budgets are not increasing this year, according to a study released last week. However, yet another study suggests overall IT spending is on the rise.

Building a VDI Environment on Shared Storage

Storage is at the heart of the problems some companies have in deploying VDI.

Microsoft Reveals Plans To Boost Cloud Licensing Benefits

During the Microsoft Hosting Summit being held in Bellevue, Wash. this week, Microsoft outlined some planned licensing changes that will help its service provider partners and Software Assurance (SA) customers.

Dell, Equinix and Rackspace Launch OpenStack Demos

Vendors build proof-of-concept environment on top of OpenStack's cloud OS to show customers what's possible in the cloud.

Cisco Acquires 'Self-Service' Hybrid Cloud Vendor newScale

Cisco Systems today said it has agreed to acquire newScale Inc., a supplier of software that provides self-service provisioning of cloud-based services.

GUI for Free Hyper-V, For Free

Microsoft's Free Hyper-V needs a GUI. In the meantime, a third-party provider has filled in the gap.

vSphere Support Added to Next OpenStack Compute Release

VMware customers looking for openness in cloud solutions might see vSphere support in the forthcoming OpenStack Compute "Cactus" release as a opportunity.

Amazon Adds Dedicated Cloud Instances

Acknowledging that some enterprise customers don't want to share computing resources, Amazon Web Services (AWS) today launched what it calls EC2 Dedicated Instances.

Server App-V for Windows Azure Beta Added to SCVMM 2012 Test Release

Systems Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 will include new feature that will allow Windows apps not designed for Windows Azure to be deployed on Microsoft's cloud platform.

Windows Intune Hits Release-to-Web Milestone

Microsoft rolled out the final release-to-Web (RTW) version of its Windows Intune PC management and security service on Thursday, during the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas.

Microsoft Releases SCVMM 2012 Beta, Unveils System Center 2012 Line

Microsoft unveiled its System Center 2012 product line on Tuesday at its Microsoft Management Summit. As part of the announcement, the company also made available the beta of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012.

Microsoft, Research In Motion Sign Cloud E-Mail Pact

According to a Bloomberg article, Microsoft plans to eliminate the e-mail hosting cost for some BlackBerry customers, and may also be on the brink of a cloud storage deal with BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM)

Hyper-V Core to Retailer's Resource Consolidation Efforts

Target turns to Microsoft's hypervisor technology to reduce physical servers and save on power and maintenance costs among its 1,755 U.S. stores.

Microsoft Releases LightSwitch Beta 2 with Azure Links

The second beta of Microsoft's rapid business application development tool, Visual Studio LightSwitch, was made available for download this week.

Browse the Web in the vSphere Client

There's browsing the Web, and then there's kinda browsing the Web with vSphere. Here's a tool that removes the "kinda" part.

HP Announces Big Plans for the Cloud

At Monday's annual analyst meeting, HP CEO Leo Apotheker announced that Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to launch a public cloud service.

VMware View Now Available on iPad

The Apple iPad got a major enterprise nod this week from virtualization giant VMware Inc.

Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack Adds Improved Virtualization Tools

Customers who use Microsoft's Desktop Optimization Pack can now download the latest version that includes updated application virtualization and desktop virtualization tools.

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