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Zetta, the two year old company offering storage as a service targeted towards enterprises, yesterday announced the availability of Zetta Data Protection Solution and they are demoing their offering at the VMworld booth at San Francisco this week. In t…

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After Openstack was launched

with much fanfare during OSCON, there has been a flurry of activity on the development community with thousands of contribution from hundreds of developers. Even though the main contribution is towards compute and storage…

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Cloud Computing is both inspiring and confusing to many people. When you realize the efficiency and cost savings offered by the cloud, you get inspired but when you listen to the marketing folks, you get confused. The reason is pretty straightforward. …

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Novell has been talking about cloud and cloud security for more than a year now and, slowly, we are getting a glimpse of where they are going. After realizing that Cloud has taken off in a big way, Novell has been trying to position themselves as …

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Yesterday, Microsoft announced the release of VMMSSP, which in short form is called as Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Self-Service Portal 2. VMMSSP is the partner-extensible solution built on top of Windows Server 2008 R2,…

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Box.Net, the cloud storage provider turned cloud content management platform for businesses, yesterday announced a new feature for their mobile apps which will let users store documents offline. In a blog post today, Aaron Levie, CEO of Box.net, wrote…

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Amazon Web Services is on a roll lately. They have been announcing variety of features, both big and small, and they even announced their datacenters in Asia-Pacific. Being a runaway leader in marketshare and poster boy for cloud computing, AWS has bee…

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Using Microsoft and Interoperability in the same sentence makes me chuckle every time. Well, partly it could be due to my open source bias and I am not denying that. Off late, Microsoft has been making half-hearted attempts to embrace open source. I us…

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Cloupia, a startup based in Santa Clara with a development center at Hyderabad, India, is another entrant in the crowded private cloud space. Founded by veterans from Cisco and other companies, they are trying to differentiate themselves with a rich se…

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Cisco Live is going on at Las vegas and I just watched the keynote by John Chambers, their CEO. The turn around by Cisco is impressive and they are really onto something with their video strategy. Today Cisco announced their new tablet strategy bringin…

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