VMware was behind a series of news nuggets, from earnings and market share results to a new SMB offering and partnerships. Elsewhere, virtualization management ISVs say they’re making hay.

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Despite new features for Hyper-V R2 SP1, the two vendors still take very different approaches to memory management for virtualization.

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January 31, 2011 -- On Monday, IT service provider giant IBM announced that it is planning its first cloud delivery center in Canada, the IBM Compute Cloud Centre, which it says will address “the growing demand from enterprises to reduce cost, increase efficiencies and access new technologies.” The $42 million facility will offer Canadian businesses the means to securely develop, host and test applications.

With Verizon purchase of Terremark, it is interesting to watch the Telco industry figure out how to grow. On the other side, looking at Google growing into the Telco space is interesting. On the other side, looking at Google growing into the Telco space is interesting. Check out these 29 open networking positions at Google.

Jim Ousley, CEO and Chairman of Savvis is having a great day. Yesterday Verizon Communications agreed to buy rival data center and managed hosting company Terremark for $1.4 billion, and today he has joined a small group of companies that are suddenly sought after as potential acquisition targets. In response his firm’s stock has traded up closing almost 14 percent higher than yesterday’s close.

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Not all steps that improve the energy efficiency of your data center will boost performance in key metrics for measuring “green” data centers. An example: removing fans from servers, which actually has an adverse effect on Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), the leading metric for data center efficiency. This dilemma was discussed in a new video from Microsoft featuring Dr. Dileep Bhandarkar, Chief Architect for Microsoft Global Foundation Services, which designs and builds Microsoft’s data centers.

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How big is Amazon’s cloud? It’s huge, and getting huger. Amazon Web Services said this week that its S3 cloud storage service housed 262 billion objects at year-end of 2010, more than doubling in size from 102 billion objects at the close of 2009. The peak request rate for S3 is now in excess of 200,000 requests per second, according to Amazon’s Jeff Barr. An analysis of new virtual server instances launched each day on Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing service, shows a similar growth curve, with activity more than doubling between 2009 and 2010. Check out this chart from the ...

Industry veteran Mike Manos has joined AOL as Senior Vice President of Technology Operations, the company said this week. Manos’ shift to AOL follows leadership posts in data center operations at Nokia and Digital Realty Trust and Microsoft’s Global Foundation Services. “Michael brings a wealth of valuable experience and expertise to the team,” said Alex Gounares, AOL Chief Technology Officer.

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The next Amsterdam vBeers will be held on Thursday 3rd of Feb starting at 6:30pm in ‘Herengracht Cafe’ which is placed close to Leidseplein and Dam Square. This venue serves a fine of selection of beers along with soft drinks and bar food.
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Japan’s Cloud Computing Services Market to Report Five-fold Growth by 2014 Japan’s market for cloud computing services is developing rapidly adding 41.9 percent in a single year, reaching USD 540 million in 2010, a report by IDC Japan showed.

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Reducing Your Amazon EC2 Cloud Charges The Biggest difference between standard web hosting and cloud-based hosting can be seen when you get the monthly bill. A standard web host, like GoDaddy, will charge you a flat monthly fee and give you access to a single, fixed server.

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GigaSpaces Releases eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) 8.0 – Ensures Technology Openness and Provides Continuous Scaling Elastic Application Platform Delivers a Robust Environment for Cloud and Data Center Development NEW YORK – January 31, 2011 – GigaSpaces Technologies, the leading provider of a new generation of virtualized application platforms, announces the launch of eXtreme Application Platform [...]

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Cloud Computing Standards: How Important Are They? “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.” - Lord Kelvin (1824-1907), British physicist and engineer. Lord Kelvin, father of the absolute temperature scale now named after him, got it right more than a hundred years ago.

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It's been almost 4 months since I mentioned in my last blog to "stay tuned" for the Cisco Validated Design guide (CVD) for Cisco UCS with XenDesktop on Hyper-V and trust me, we have been busy testing at the Cisco labs since then. Well, I am glad to share with you that the CVD is now released and available here.

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Greetings and Happy New Year. Apologies that things have been silent around here. I can assure you the entire Cloudscaling team has been extremely busy. We have a bunch of great new content coming along for the blog that should be interesting to discuss, particularly around public IaaS cloud growth and velocity.

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The VW Formula XL1 not only gets 260 mpg, it also looks quite fetching. Stranger still, you might actually be able to buy one. Originally posted at Technically Incorrect

In case you haven't seen the news, Verizon has announced it will acquire cloud service provider Terremark.

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Austin, Texas has always been a central location for wind and solar power, fuel cell technology, geothermal and biomass resources, and energy-saving sustainable technologies. It has become a major power player within the global energy industry. It has strong commitments to sustainability and the environment, and is ready to make its mark as the clean energy capital across the globe.

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A Swedish train station is harvesting energy from human heat to warm buildings and lower energy costs.
Central Station in Stokholm is Sweden’s largest rail station and the busiest in Northern Europe with almost 250,000 passengers per day. All those bodies in motion create excessive heat in the building, despite the chilly climate.
“People are now starting to think about urban heat distribution networks everywhere,” says Doug King, a consultant specializing in design innovation and sustainable development in construction.

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