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Public cloud shakeup: VMware in, Dell out, and OpenStack in limbo?
By Brandon Butler | 24 May, 2013 18:12It's been a busy week in the cloud. Dell ditched plans to build its own cloud and instead will work with partners, while focusing on private clouds. In an opposite move, VMware revealed its plans for how it will compete in the public cloud market.
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IBM preps SmartCloud for real-time analytics
By Joab Jackson | 23 May, 2013 20:34Deploying an update of its DB2 database, IBM is pitching its SmartCloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for use in data reporting and analysis.
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Hybrid public-private Cloud usage more widespread than you think
By Brandon Butler | 23 May, 2013 20:33Many times in discussions about Cloud computing, the hybrid Cloud – meaning a service that combines both off-site public Cloud and on-premises private Cloud computing resources – is thought of as being some nirvana state that will be the dominant architecture at some point in the future.
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Box buys iOS app to improve its own
By Juan Carlos Perez | 23 May, 2013 16:40Box has acquired an unreleased application called Folders, designed to give iPhone and iPad users a mobile front-end interface for the cloud storage and file management and sharing service as well as for competitors Google Drive and Dropbox.
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As Ethernet turns 40, some seek to take it to the Cloud
By Stephen Lawson | 23 May, 2013 15:33As Ethernet marks its 40th birthday this week, some of those celebrating will also be looking ahead to yet another use for the nearly ubiquitous technology: the Cloud.
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Cloudian connects with Citrix for easier cloud rollouts
By Mikael Ricknäs | 23 May, 2013 14:41Cloudian is integrating its platform with Citrix's CloudPortal Business Manager as it aims to make it easier to roll out and manage storage as a service.
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Microsoft boosts Japan Azure offering, adds data centers in two regions
By Jay Alabaster | 23 May, 2013 11:02Microsoft will boost its Azure cloud offering in Japan, adding two domestic data centers to speed response times and improve reliability in the face of natural disasters.
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Citrix links cloud-based storage to SharePoint and Azure
By Mikael Ricknäs | 22 May, 2013 17:01Citrix Systems is making its cloud-based storage service ShareFile more Microsoft-friendly with SharePoint integration and the ability to store data on Azure.
Interviews about cloud computing-
HP Q&A: Converged Cloud is company's chief initiative
By Joab Jackson | 10 May, 2013 20:39Saar Gillai, named head of Hewlett-Packard's Cloud operations in January, is on the hot seat.
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NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson talks growth, strategy and life with Oracle
By Chris Kanaracus | 09 January, 2013 20:59NetSuite is one of the SaaS (software as a service) market's pioneers, having sold its growing family of ERP (enterprise resource planning), e-commerce and other applications since 1998. The vendor's results have been beating Wall Street's predictions, and may yet again in a few weeks, when NetSuite is expected to announce its fourth-quarter and year-end results.
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SNAPSHOT: The name game
By Patrick Budmar | 07 November, 2011 11:16What’s in a name? Plenty, according to Ingres A/NZ and APAC general manager, Jason Leonidas
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INSIDE STORY: Steering towards new business strategies
By Julia Talevski | 27 July, 2011 14:19Distributor IPL Communications held a thought leadership event earlier this year specifically targeting 170 dealers that were a mix between telco and system integrators. This was underscored by the need to change. Julia Talevski sat down with IPL general manager, Paul Scanlan, and managing director, Stead Denton.
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PROFILE: Working towards global ICT
By Patrick Budmar | 28 July, 2011 10:27While Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) has been in the Australian market for several years, the company has recently found itself in the spotlight following a series of high profile acquisitions. ARN spoke to NTT’s Australian managing director and CEO, Yoshimasa Hashimoto, about its local plans.<
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PROFILE: Harnessing the power of the hybrid cloud and beyond
By Patrick Budmar | 21 June, 2011 11:40With the virtualisation needs of Australian and New Zealand companies continually expanding, VMware Australia has stepped up to meet ITS ever growing expectations through the cloud. ARN spoke to VMware Australia Vice-President and Managing Director, Duncan Bennet, about his recent promotion, making virtualisation work and the journey to the cloud.
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Strategy's Limits: A chat with Ernest von Simson
By Nancy Weil | 03 August, 2010 03:59As co-founder of The Research Board, an exclusive, IT-focused think tank established in 1970, Ernest von Simson watched time and again as corporate leaders took their companies through change and crises over three decades. During those years, he came to believe that steadfastness is the most vital leadership characteristic for success, as he demonstrates in his new book, "The Limits of Strategy: Lessons in Leadership from the Computer Industry".
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Weinman: Biz, ecosystem are keys to cloud evolution
By Hyuna Kim | 17 March, 2010 04:43These days, cloud computing may be the hottest topic in IT industry as many firms are planning to unleash cloud service or already starting to deploy cloud service.
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IT's new concern: The personal Cloud
By Robert L. Mitchell | 20 May, 2013 10:14As personal and professional Clouds converge, IT's mission to improve productivity while protecting corporate apps and data is getting tougher.
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What to expect at SAP's Sapphire
By Chris Kanaracus | 09 May, 2013 17:32SAP's Sapphire conference kicks off next week in Orlando, setting the stage for the company to sell customers on its visions for cloud-based applications, in-memory computing and mobility.
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What the man behind HP's new internal IT plan has in mind
By Bob Brown | 23 April, 2013 15:06As someone who spent billions with HP over 20 years while in IT leadership roles at Boeing and Verizon Wireless, John Hinshaw knew the big hardware, software and services company from the outside as well as anyone. In the year-and-a-half since becoming executive vice-president of technology and operations at HP, he's been putting that knowledge to use on the inside.
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Why developers are turning to API services
By Paul Krill | 23 April, 2013 10:18As application development increasingly hooks into outside services, tools to manage all those APIs are sprouting up
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Squeezing savings from the Cloud
By Nancy Gohring | 22 April, 2013 10:05Calculating the real ROI of Cloud apps requires the analysis of a lot of factors, and cutting corners on that process means you might not save money.
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SAP's first quarter: The key questions
By Chris Kanaracus | 18 April, 2013 14:57SAP will announce its first-quarter 2013 earnings on Friday, a report that will get heavy scrutiny from company watchers. Here's a look at some of the more important topics that should come up during SAP executives' conference calls with press and analysts on Friday.
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Cloud tools abound. Is enterprise IT ready?
By Christine Burns | 08 April, 2013 11:00The sky is the limit for both the number and the types of tools that will eventually help enterprise IT fully embrace the cloud, say industry analysts and cloud integration experts.
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Top 10 Cloud tools
By Christine Burns | 08 April, 2013 11:00Cloud vendors are delivering boatloads of new tools to help enterprise IT build, buy, manage, monitor, tweak and track Cloud services. These tools are designed to help IT execs free up their budgets and their staff so both can be used towards more strategic, line of business projects.
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