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Stuart Miniman (@stu)

Twitter Bio:: Analyst and Researcher @Wikibon. Focus on storage, networks, virtualization (vExpert) & cloud w/ passion for innovation and social media.
Location:: Massachusetts, USA
Website:: http://blogstu.wordpress.com

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Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Cloupia

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Based in Santa Clara, Calif, Cloupia is a software company that automates converged data center infrastructure – allowing enterprises and service providers to speed the deployment and configuration of physical and virtual infrastructure from a single management console. Together, Cisco and Cloupia will extend the converged management benefits of the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Manager and UCS Central beyond compute to include server, network, storage, and virtualization functions, simplifying the IT administrator’s operations and improving overall reliability in system deployment.With the introduction of the Unified Computing System

Exposed: Agile Storage Comes to Amazon’s ...

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Early during my tenure as Cloud Czar, I was proud to have helped NetApp become the first infrastructure vendor to build an expansive enterprise cloud ecosystem of telco and service provider partners. Together, we serve over 77 percent of the Fortune 500 companies’ core applications and NetApp is the storage foundation for data served to more than one billion cloud users. Today, I want to share my enthusiasm for new customer cloud capabilities announced by NetApp and Amazon Web Services (AWS) at the inaugural re:Invent conference. NetApp Private Storage for AWS combines the availability, performance, agility, and control of NetApp’s enterprise

VMware Kills vRAM Licensing, Will Focus On vSphere Cloud Bundles

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VMware is discontinuing an unpopular server virtualization-licensing program and will focus on marketing vSphere and its other cloud computing products as a unified stack, CRN has learned.

In its upcoming release of vSphere 5.1, VMware is getting rid of vRAM entitlements, which debuted with vSphere 5 and determine how much memory

Amazon Seen Spinning Off Cloud Computing Unit AWS

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Amazon.com (AMZN) is likely to spin off its cloud computing arm, Amazon Web Services, says Oppenheimer.In a report on the cloud industry released Monday, Oppenheimer analyst Tim Horan says Amazon's cloud computing unit would be better off as a publicly traded subsidiary."We believe an ultimate spinoff of AWS is inevitable due to its channel conflicts and the need to gain scale," Horan wrote. " We see the business as extremely valuable on a stand-alone basis, possibly even operating as a REIT (real estate investment trust)."To date, public cloud users, including online retailers, have had few alternatives when utilizing the cloud, other than to

VMware CTO: How the software-defined datacenter benefits enterprises

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Summary: The next generation of foundational IT innovation is largely being implemented above the hardware.

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