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Report: Global data center energy use will rise nearly 20% next year: 09/28/11; Data centers around the globe are likely to consume 19% more energy next year than in 2011, according to a report from DatacenterDynamics.
SMBs just aren't into the cloud: 09/26/11; A recent survey indicates that the mid-market is far from sold on cloud computing.
French network intelligence software vendor lands $28.5 million in funding: 09/14/11; Qosmos, a Paris-based provider of network intelligence software based on Deep Packet Inspection (DPI), has received $28.5 million in financing from several European venture firms.
IBM offers SMBs $1 billion in financing for cloud, analytics packages: 09/12/11; Hey, small and midsize businesses, IBM has got some cloud computing and analytics packages to sell you, and they're offering financing on terms so easy you'll think Big Blue went crazy!
Salesforce.com CEO: Sorry, virtualization isn't cloud computing: 09/07/11; While much of the networking industry last week was focused on VMworld in Las Vegas, Marc Benioff was at his own company's cloud computing event in San Francisco, where the Salesforce.com chief executive answered questions from attendees of Dreamforce 2011.
Hadoop distro vendor MapR grabs $20 million in funding: 09/06/11; MapR Technologies, a provider of distribution for Apache Hadoop, has scored a $20 million round of venture funding led by Redpoint Ventures.
Cloud-based enterprise laptop backup player lands venture funding: 08/31/11; Druva, a 4-year-old provider of enterprise laptop backup and retrieval products and services, has received $12 million in venture funding, the company announced last week.
Convirture unveils enterprise cloud management console: 08/29/11; Convirture, a provider of open source, cross-platform virtualization management tools, has announced new software designed to allow enterprises to manage private clouds, hybrid clouds and virtualized infrastructures from a single console.
Thomson Reuters moves payroll, HR data to the cloud: 08/24/11; Information and financial services giant Thomson Reuters has more than 55,000 employees spread over 100 countries.
A video platform for the mobile enterprise: 08/22/11; With the "consumerization of IT" introducing a flood of personal mobile devices into the workplace, enterprise networks are bearing an unanticipated burden.
A matchmaker for cloud services: 08/17/11; Networking professionals know they need to be on the cloud. But which cloud? Or more precisely, which cloud services should they use? As is usually the case in enterprise computing, there are no simple answers.
HotLink unveils systems management platform for VMware users: 08/15/11; Systems management platform vendor HotLink Corp. last week unveiled integration software aimed at users of VMware and announced a $10 million venture round.
Few data scientists happy with current state of 'big data' analytics: 08/10/11; A poll of attendees of the largest gathering of statisticians and data scientists in North America reveals a near-unanimous belief that "big data" analytics needs improvement.
The accidental revolution: How Apple's iPhone transformed enterprise IT: 08/08/11; There's a good article over at Fortune about how Apple's iPhone -- always intended as a consumer device -- opened the floodgates for Apple's invasion of the enterprise with mobile devices.
BAE Systems wins part of special operations forces apps contract: 08/03/11; Visit the website of the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) and you'll be told that Special Operations Truth No. 1 is that "humans are more important than hardware."
Nodeable working on 'Twitter for machines': 08/03/11; IT departments these days must cope with the growing popularity of social platforms among enterprise users, whether it's Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or LinkedIn.
System performance no game to IGN Entertainment: 06/29/11; If you run a Web operation with a target audience of young male gamers between the ages of 18 and 35, you know you're talking about the need for the utmost in system performance.
Zenoss aims to deliver cloud service assurances: 06/27/11; As IT organizations approach a cloud computing model, many tend to be a bit skittish -- not knowing how one change might affect the cloud infrastructure and services can be unnerving.
Netuitive making waves in predictive IT analytics: 06/21/11; For years the quiet voice of predictive IT analytics, Netuitive has come out roaring in June.
Infoblox releases enhanced network automation features: 06/19/11; Asked where they'll start their cloud use, many IT organizations say internally.
Opscode serves up cloud infrastructure automation appliance: 06/15/11; By now many enterprise IT managers have come to this stark realization: If they don't become more like a cloud services provider internally, they'll lose critical application developers to the cloud.
SolarWinds extends virtualization management downward: 06/13/11; Virtualization complexity can present a challenge to IT managers at just about any company size. But SolarWinds doesn't think that need be the case.
Embotics gets deeper into private cloud management: 06/07/11; From its roots tagging and tracking virtual machines across the virtual data center, virtualization management company Embotics is set on helping IT organizations effectively and efficiently manage private clouds.
SaaS heats up IT service management arena: 06/05/11; Software-as-a-service options are popping up all over these days, as discussed in this week's special Enterprise Cloud Services [add link to 10 SaaS companies to watch please] feature package. IT management is no exception.
HP redefines IT performance management: 06/01/11; When enterprise IT professionals think about IT performance management after today, HP hopes they do so with a much different idea in mind -- and capabilities at hand -- than traditionally so.