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Amazon EC2 creators to launch cloud computing start-up

Two members of the team that created Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud have built a new cloud computing start-up called Benguela, which is expected to emerge from stealth mode next week.
Oracle bolsters cloud computing strategy

Acknowledging the ongoing hype and evolution revolving around cloud computing technology, enterprise software provider Oracle unraveled their own cloud strategy that pushes for private cloud adoption by large companies.
Data centre builders head for Scotland

Better known for its proximity to stunning highland scenery, Inverness is to host a new data centre built to exploit an equally valuable asset - renewable energy.
Cloud gets IBM hand-holding service

IBM has launched a set of cloud computing consulting and implementation services, convinced it will spark wider adoption of the model.
Users offered virtualised hosting service

Carrenza, a UK-based company that designs, builds and manages hosted networks, has launched a virtualised hosting service that it claims can reduce annual data centre costs by up to 20 percent and power consumption by 60 percent.
DataSynapse launches datacentre management tool

DataSynapse has launched FabricServer 2.5, which it described as "an enabling platform for achieving real-time infrastructure."
Gartner predicts the end of IT as we know it

Gartner reckoned it's identified 14 alternative models for the delivery of IT that it said will "completely transform the IT market in the next five years."
Ozzie teases on Microsoft software services

Chief software architect Ray Ozzie has given some of the clearest examples yet of Microsoft's vision of ?software plus services.?
BT to put grid computing to work

BT is to deploy 3Tera's AppLogic grid operating system to support future software-as-a-service and other offerings.
Government promotes dumb terminals to cut global warming

The government is launching a Green Shift taskforce to move people away from PCs and towards dumb terminals with a broadband link to a network of green datacentres.

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The green computing backlash grows

IT executives are dealing with far too many headaches to let themselves be led on an environmental guilt trip.
The Big Switch: Rewiring the world, from Edison to Google

Nicholas Carr's provocative new book argues that the IT department as we know it is doomed as businesses rush to adopt utility computing as a model. It's persuasively argued - even if it does spell the end of all our jobs.
The big switch to utility computing

Why Nicholas Carr, of IT Doesn?t Matter fame, thinks we are at the early stages of a fundamental shift in the nature of computing, which is what his new book is all about.
Sun's green datacentre strategy - have none

Sun Microsystems intends to become datacentre-less by 2015. Applications will be delivered 'over the grid' in a software-as-a-service model.
Storage in the cloud

Clusters of mega-data centres using millions of servers and disk drives do not use traditional SAN, NAS and DAS storage. Instead intelligent file systems and fail-safe storage hardware is being developed to store petabytes of data safely.
3Tera on the fit between virtualisation and utility computing

To understand how virtualisation and the utility computing market fit together, we spoke to 3Tera's senior VP Bert Armijo and Peter Nickolov, president and CTO.
EMC's incredible Hulk

HULK, MAMBA, MAUI and HomeStore - coming EMC products.
IT skills no longer sufficient for data centre execs

Companies must find the right mix of IT, facilities and security expertise.
Grid computing: The term may fade, but features will live on

Grid computing's goal of sharing resources is still a plan for many corporate customers; the question is how to get there most effectively.
Microsoft's utility computing guru talks about his in-house support challenges

The profile of Microsoft's in-house server farm looks much like those in other companies: one application per server, with less than 20 per cent peak utilisation. And no VMware in sight...

How-tos

How to move your small business to the cloud

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Case Study: Servers go front and centre

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Case Study: Virtualisation enables utility computing

Case Study: Mixed IT environments remain king with large users

Case Study: Different shades of grid

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Featured White Papers

Next Generation Network Series: Utility Computing and Business Value

The telecommunications network has traditionally been seen as a passive infrastructure, designed only for moving data from point A to point B. A new, more expansive view considers how recent developments are taking the network in a new direction. This view looks at the convergence of voice and data, the integration of wireline and wireless and the growth in IP-based services. It sees the next generation network not only as a transport mechanism, but as the foundation for distributed computing architectures.
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Virtualization for the Real World

Virtualization is making a tremendous impact in the IT community around the world and across enterprises, agencies and institutions. The results of virtualization demonstrate clear benefits and tangible value to managers and decision-makers at every level of the IT organization.
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A Model-based Simulation Approach to Error Analysis of IT Services

In this paper, we propose a framework that applies a model-based approach that enables system administrators to simulate error analyses of utility computing environments. Specifically, the information model-centric framework leverages information about existing service components and their interactions
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Virtualization for the Real World

Virtualization technology changes the game. Virtual infrastructures provide greater flexibility and open up new ways of thinking about the IT environment. Aggregating servers, storage and networking, a virtual infrastructure provides a true utility computing model that matches computing power and storage capacity to the needs of the organization and its business requirements. This article provides real-world guidelines on how migration from an existing IT environment to a virtual infrastructure can provide remarkable flexibility, reduced complexity, reduced risks and economic savings in any IT environment.
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Integrating Applications in an IP Environment

Whereas the first wave of enterprise convergence projects focused on creating a single infrastructure based on the Internet protocol (IP), companies are now focusing on the challenge of integrating major business applications with real-time communications running over IP. This is one of the main findings from a survey of 236 executives (including 77 CEOs) on network convergence issues conducted in 2005 by The Economist Intelligence Unit in co-operation with AT&T. The analysis in this white paper suggests that it will become increasingly difficult to divide communications and information processing into separate categories, as organizations load as much corporate traffic as possible onto their IP-based networks.
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