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Companies today are looking to do more with less, while finding new ways to meet growing business demand. Cloud computing is being touted as the cure-all but means many things to many people.
In his general session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Neela Jacques, Group Manager, Product Marketing at VMware, will be exploring how companies are evolving their virtualized infrastructures to deliver many of the benefits of proprietary public clouds, without many of the downsides – by building focused Private Clouds and leveraging Public Cloud providers.

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Oracle today announced Dell and HP will certify and resell Oracle Solaris, Oracle Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM on their respective x86 platforms…. Read more at VMblog.com.

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This ESG Lab Review documents the pay as you grow scalability and availability of the HP P4000 SAN. Topics explored include getting started with a Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA), online upgrades to physical appliances, proven support for more than 150,000 Microsoft Exchange users, and hyper-redundant fault tolerance.
Published by: Hewlett-Packard Limited

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With the right infrastructure in your virtual environment, you can dramatically improve resiliency and flexibility without breaking the bank. This Forrester Consulting paper explains how.
Published by: Hewlett-Packard Limited

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This report examines the transition from a period of Strategic Consolidation to one of focused Process Improvement, stages two to three in Forrester’s Virtualization Maturity Model.
Published by: Hewlett-Packard Limited

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The management tools selected to support virtualization is essential to the ability of IT to grow the virtual environment without proportionately increasing the staff required to manage all of the new physical host servers and their guest VMs. Continue reading this white paper to learn more.
Published by: CA

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Traditionally, the cost of deployment has not been considered an important parameter of architectural tradeoffs. Since the main driver of cloud computing is its promise of cost savings through “pay for what you use,” there is a strong incentive to build applications that consume fewer resources.
In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Udayan Banerjee, CTO at NIIT Technologies Ltd., will Establish the need: 10% less resource required = 10% cost saving; identify what we need to unlearn: Parallel and distributed world is a different world; provide pointers: How to approach the problem of cost optimization; and review platform-specific variance: impact of the difference between main providers.

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Today, Microsoft announced the availability of the Hyper-V Linux Integration Services for Linux Version 2.1. When installed in a supported Linux… Read more at VMblog.com.

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ChangeBASE AOK, the world leader in automated application compatibility testing and remediation, today announces the first VMware ThinApp Plug-in to… Read more at VMblog.com.

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myshadows writes “Tech Review has an interesting article on how Tokyo Metropolitan University researchers have been able to give a sensory addition to gaming peripherals — namely, temperature. ‘As the range of interactions with digital environments expands, it’s logical to ask what’s next: Smell-o-vision has been on the horizon for something like 50 years, but there’s a dark horse stalking this race: thermoelectrics. Based on the Peltier effect, these solid-state devices are easy to incorporate into objects of reasonable size, i.e. video game controllers. In this configuration, just announced at the 2010 SIGGRAPH conference, a pair of thermoelectric surfaces on either side of a controller rapidly heat up or cool down in order to simulate appropriate conditions in a virtual environment.’”

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