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    The bumpy road to private clouds 21/12/2010 04:40:00

    When we first heard about cloud computing, public clouds got most of the attention.
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    The challenges of moving to a private cloud 16/11/2010 02:47:00

    In Part 1 of this article, we defined private clouds, talked about the differences between deploying server virtualization and implementing a private cloud, described the risks associated with deploying private clouds and listed the phases and steps involved in transitioning to a private cloud.
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    Building a private cloud: Get ready for a bumpy ride 25/08/2010 00:44:00

    When cloud computing became a topic of discussion a few years ago, public clouds received the bulk of the attention, mostly due to the high-profile nature of public-cloud announcements from some of the industry's biggest names, including Google and Amazon. But now that the talk has turned into implementation, some IT shops have begun steering away from public clouds because of the security risks; data is outside the corporate firewall and is basically out of their control.
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    IBM plans big hardware upgrade next year 17/10/2009 07:21:00

    IBM disclosed the plans at a time when server sales among all vendors have taken a bruising during the economic downturn, and IBM is no exception. In a third quarter earnings call yesterday, said Mark Loughridge, IBM's chief financial officer, said that the company's third quarter mainframe revenue declined by 26 per cent from the year-earlier period.
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    Oracle breaks silence on Sun plans in ad 11/09/2009 10:35:00

    Oracle Corp. ended it silence Thursday on its post-merger plans for Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Unix systems in an advertisement aimed at Sun customers to keep them from leaving the Sparc and Solaris platforms.
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    High-end clustering tool is reworked for the enterprise 06/08/2009 06:30:00

    A company that develops workload management tools for high-performance clusters is bringing its products to the commercial data center, where it says it can help companies allocate computing resources more efficiently.
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    Enterprise Linux? Not so fast. 20/01/2009 09:40:00

    Migrating business applications from high-end Unix-based systems such as Sparc/Solaris to commodity x86/Linux platforms has been a popular idea for the past few years, but not everyone thinks going full-on with Linux is the best solution -- at least not yet.
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    Moon calls it a day as AIIA CEO 09/04/2008 08:47:25

    Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) CEO, Sheryle Moon, will depart from the position at the end of this week to take up a new role as Australia and New Zealand director for Ross and Julia Ross staff recruitment brands.
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    IBM announces the Power6 chip 22/05/2007 08:26:48

    IBM Monday officially announced its Power6 chip, saying that the next-generation microprocessor for its Unix and Linux systems offers double the performance of the earlier Power5+ device while consuming roughly the same amount of electricity.
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    IBM will base software price on processor performance 26/07/2006 07:57:51

    IBM plans one day to charge for its software based on how fast it runs, not the number of processor cores on which it's running. The company announced licensing changes for its middleware Tuesday -- although the change will have no immediate effect on pricing.
 
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