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HEWLETT-PACKARD said it is investing more than $US1 billion ($1.07bn) over the next two years to develop cloud-computing software and tools, a move it considers necessary to ward off competition even if it means cannibalizing its legacy hardware and software businesses.

A very thorough and in detail comparison of the some of the heavy hitters of the Cloud Computing Industry

developerWorks Cloud Computing Resource Center.

A CITTIO project, Zeppelin enhances the manageability of cloud computing systems. Utilizing WS-MAN and WBEM, Zeppelin's instrumentation provides detailed asset, performance, auditing, benchmarking and usage metering information for cloud infrastructures

cloud-based services may fall outside the scope of established service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance

IBM launched three cloud system models: IBM Smart Business Test Cloud, a private cloud behind the client's firewall, with hardware, software and services supplied by IBM; ...

Interesting view on depermeterisation. Hoff's view is that the protected assets are in smaller clumps and still have a perimeter.

"aaS Providers Shifting to Commercial VMs. IaaS (infrastructure as a service) providers have focused on open source and internal technologies to deliver solutions at the lowest possible cost. But that's changing. In the past year, there's been a rapidly growing trend for IaaS providers to add support for major commercial VM formats - especially VMware, but also Hyper-V and XenServer. The reason? To create an easy on-ramp for enterprises. As enterprises virtualize (and in many cases, build private clouds), the IaaS providers know that they need to make interoperability, hybrid, overdrafting, migration as easy as possible. The question is whether that will require commercial offerings (such as VMware's vCloud Datacenter Services, or Microsoft Dynamic Datacenter Alliance), or if conversion tools will be good enough. I tend to think that service providers better make the off-premises experience as identical to the on-premises experience as possible - and I'm not sure conversion will get them there."

Comparing Public-Cloud Providers

This report discusses the issue of cloud computing and outlines its implications for the privacy of personal information as well as its implications for the confidentiality of business and governmental information. [...] The World Privacy Forum is a non-profit public interest research and consumer education group.

Private cloud replaces antiquated IT infrastructure for $300K per year

Hybrid cloud or half-hearted kludge?

designed to provide an inexpensive, preconfigured environment for IT professionals to prototype solutions using their existing applications and includes technical components required to create a robust application delivery center in the cloud. Initially, lab users will have access to Citrix® XenApp™ alongside key Citrix C3 technologies such as Citrix Access Gateway™ and Citrix Repeater™ in the AWS cloud environment

Elastician: Cloud Computing Hierarchy of Needs

cloud computing opensource platform

cloud computing opensource platform