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OpenStack Foundation launches with $10m in funding

NASA, Rackspace experts jump ship to Nebula
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Size matters: Bromium 'microvisor' to guard PCs for big biz

Clap these mutinous dogs in th' app brig, mister mate
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VMTurbo sucks up apps and blows them into clouds

Operations Manager control freak pushed to 3.2

Opinion

VMware adds EMC daddy's deduping backup to vSphere

VMware is embedding EMC's Avamar deduplicating backup software into ESXi with the vSphere Data Protection product, making VMware seem more like EMC's baby than an open child.

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Broadcom

Broadcom launches Trident II switch chip

Blasting over 100 10GE ports into the clouds

HyTrust goes ballistic with virty compliance appliance

VMworld 2012 Locks down Vblock clouds
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VMware desktop virt refresh lets you run Windows 8 everywhere

Run Windows 8 inside Windows 8, hey, why not
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SkyTap embeds Cloud Foundry in app dev cloud

Imports and exports from private VMware virty servers

Speaking in Tech: Can you sell technology without having AWESOME HAIR?

Podcast We chat about this and other erm, storage and virtualisation puzzlers...
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HotLink extends SuperVisor virty control freak to EC2, CloudStack

OpenStack freakage when enough of you ask
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Rackspace rolls up OpenStack for private clouds

Amazon doesn't believe in private clouds, only public clouds and when you get down to it, only its own Amazon Web Services. Rackspace Hosting, which has supported other people's apps for a lot longer than AWS, believes in public clouds just as much as Amazon - enough to start the OpenStack cloud controller project and use the code in its own public cloud.
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VMware lets you take vClouds out for a spin

VMware wants to make it easier for cloudy infrastructure builders to see how its vCloud stack of software runs their applications, but it doesn't want to be in the cloud business itself.

Spotlight

Prepares for backlash of the backup vendors...
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Podcast The usual suspects at our enterprise tech-cast broadcast from the centre of the action
Blocks and Files Will VBlock partner be forced to line a rival's pockets?
Deep Dive Training server admins into server-and-storage admins
Miracle-cream-slathered tool spurts on 12 April
Deep Dive Big changes: Hole-punching and application data blocks
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'Virtualising performance'... with IOPS to spare
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Analysis 'Everyone short-strokes', admits industry rival