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Chrome OS - Google's push to drive the desktop into the Cloud

Google released details about Chrome OS, the company’s Cloud operating system due in 2010. As a Cloud OS, Chrome OS aims to eliminate the traditional desktop platform, and get users on the web quickly and efficiently. The primary questions that... (translate)

AT&T Unveils Network-Based 'On Demand' Computing for Companies of All Sizes

http://vmblog.com/archive/2009/11/16/at-t-unveils-network-based-on-demand-computing-for-companies-of-all-sizes.aspx AT&T Unveils Network-Based 'On Demand' Computing for Companies of All Sizes AT&T today announced AT&T Synaptic Compute as a Service(SM), its latest innovative global cloud-based service, designed to give companies of all sizes simple on-demand access to scalable computing... (translate)

HP acquires 3Com, challenges Cisco

Hewlett-Packard reached an agreement to acquire 3Com, for $2.7 billion in a deal that will help improve H.P.’s business in China, expand its network gear business, and position it to challenge the market leader in networking, Cisco Systems. Under chief... (translate)

Pulling Power out of Thin Air

The Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform, a project of Intel Research Seattle with significant input from students and faculty of the University of Washington, is a project looking to leverage the capabilities of RFID tags, but also supporting sensing and... (translate)

Gartner Identifies the Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2010

Analysts Examine Latest Industry Trends During Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, October 18-22, in Orlando ORLANDO, Fla., October 20, 2009 —  Gartner, Inc. analysts today highlighted the top 10 technologies and trends that will be strategic for most organizations in 2010. The... (translate)

Intel and EMC Atmos for High Performance Storage Clouds

Intel announced that it's working with EMC to offer a very low power hardware-and-software building block for those looking to float Private Storage Clouds, slated for debut in the second half of next year. The product will be based on... (translate)

Intel announces Cloud Builder program

This the Cloud Computing Expo this week in Santa Clara, CA, Intel announced the Cloud Builder Program, where it will work with eight software partners -- Citrix Systems, VMware, Parallels, Microsoft, Red Hat, Canonical, Univa UD and the Xen consortium... (translate)

Red Hat releases Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor and Virtualization Manager for Servers

REVH (Redhat Enterprises Virtualization Hypervisor) is a stripped down version of RHEL 5.4, with the following characteristics (partial list):  Support for Intel VT / EPT and AMD-V / RVI  Support for up to 64 physical CPUs (up to... (translate)

Google Spanner

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/23/google_spanner/ Google’s massively global infrastructure now employs a proprietary system that automatically moves and replicates loads between its mega data centers when traffic and hardware issues arise. The distributed technology was first hinted at — in classically coy Google fashion... (translate)

Hybrid Clouds emerge - Unisys

http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/unisys-unveils-software-running-private-clouds-442?source=IFWNLE_nlt_daily_2009-11-02 Unisys announced Monday software and services that will enable organizations to deploy and run their own internal private clouds, as part of its strategy to offer customers a variety of cloud computing options. The private cloud offering addresses the... (translate)

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