Cloud computing is a concept of delivering a type of software, platform, and computing infrastructure in a network. In this, the actual business centric hardware is placed in a centralized location, or distributed servers are used to house applications. Businesses and customers can access the needed resources via connecting the servers from remote locations. Cloud computing encompasses various computing concepts like hosted applications and accessing software through web browser, which provide scalable business applications delivered through internet.

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Most of the enthusiasts today's have never heard of Time-sharing . They appear unaware that the on-line world already depends on a couple of dozen data processing and storage complexes adjacent to an equally small number of communications hubs: the result of thirty years of evolution and experience rather than a decade of innovation.

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Today we are offering one Guest Post by Justin E. Gehrke and the founder of Geek Shui Living with topic on Becoming a Geek! Hope you will enjoy reading this text as I did.

How you can help save the world and support your local community!

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Deduplication is now widely recognized as a prerequisite technology for next generation data protection. While this is a correct view, to classify it as the only new technology that organizations need to consider in order to successfully redesign their backup infrastructure does not paint a complete picture. More specifically, the recent and rapid maturation of continuous data protection (CDP) has put organizations in a position where they need some criteria to make an informed decision as to how to proceed with these two technologies.

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We continue to see a growing interest in Cloud storage from the end user community. Responding to growing requests, we recently qualified CA ARCserve Backup software with CloudArray.

Below is a link to a presentation that steps you through how ARCserve software together with CloudArray protects virtualized and physical server environments.

We also included a 3-year TCO summary on CloudArray vs. existing backup and replication solutions. If you are using ARCserve or any other third party data protection software...

Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday disclosed a $250 million, three-year partnership to develop and market next-generation data center technology and application infrastructure that combines virtualization, system management and cloud computing.

The companies made the announcement during a conference call led by HP CEO Mark Hurd and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.

The pact is focused on the companies co-developing new systems and dedicating joint go-to-market efforts for delivering those technologies as bundled applications and services, the executives said.

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I'm posting this mostly because I wanted to share an issue I had with VirtualBox 3.1.x running on my Mac.

For much of 2009, I ran an instance of WindowsXP as a guest OS via VirtualBox on my Mac. My guest OS serves two purposes: testing sites in Windows browsers and running an instance of SQL Server 2008 for a long-term project on which I am working. Because I need to connect to the SQL Server instance on the guest OS from my Mac, I use Bridged Networking, which allows my office's network to assign a unique IP address to the guest OS.

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Zimbra customers, on an emotional roller-coaster ride since it was acquired by Yahoo, welcome VMware's plans to buy the open-source e-mail, calendar and collaboration software vendor.

Many of them were vexed when Yahoo snapped up Zimbra for US$350 million in September 2007, concerned that the Zimbra suite might wilt and disappear due to Yahoo's inexperience in the enterprise software market.

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2010 is going to be the year of desktop virtualisation. At least, that's what I've been told by several pundits at many points during 2009 and which many industrybloggers and magazines have been eager to endorse.
For many cloud computing has been the fashionable IT tip of the season but as the Centrix Software survey shows, there have been plenty of companies looking into desktop virtualisation. What's more, the Centrix research has demonstrated that enterprises are more interested in exploring different options when it comes to desktop virtualisation.

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Consumption of energy sources has a negative reaction on the environment. Datacenters, PCs, printers and other IT gadgets use a large amount of power and consequently cooling energy is needed to counteract the power usage, which will be an endless circle of energy waste and also increased expenses.

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Amazon has a phenomenal amount of data on AWS and much of that data is shared with the partner community,.  One partner is cloudkick. graphs visualize important metrics like http latency and ping - from multiple data centers. monitoring set up monitoring in a just a few clicks get alerts when services go critical monitor ping, http, https & ssh

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It can be hard to figure out who are the top data center construction companies and in this economy it is even more difficult than ever.  With the rule of Fight Club for data centers it is hard for a non-insider to figure out who does what as almost everyone says they are a leader.

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If you want to download the activity installer, you can do that here (This installer will install the activity library into the GAC on the device it is run on)
Download IIS 7 Management Activities Installer

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Yes, that’s right everybody’s doing - why aren’t you? Of course, I’m not talking about sex - but about various companies all jumping into the metaphorical bed together. Yesterday, Microsoft and HP (MSHP) annouced a joint $250m dollar partnership and in on the 26th Jan - Cisco, NetApp and VMware (CNW) will probably announce a [...]

VMware have made some changes to their certification - Firstly, the VCP3 test which was due to be ended at the end of 2009 has been rescued - and won’t now be discontinued until March 31st. The reason being that there is still a signficant number of folks doing the Vi3 courses and supporting that [...]

There will be a cloud computing event running by Datacraft Malaysia at 20th Jan 2010 in Berjaya Time square, and 22nd in Equatorial Hotel Penang. Below are the screen shot I captured from their official website.

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Citing the “chaotic” Copenhagen climate talks, Jonathan Pershing, the U.S.’s deputy special envoy for climate change, said the UN must relinquish the central role in future climate negotiations to major nations such as the U.S., China, and India.

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Arad Technologies, a Yokneam, Israel-based wireless water meter manufacturer, and Luxembourg-based meter maker Actaris Metering Systems were jointly awarded a deal to provide 150,000 water meters to the city of Mumbai, India according to Globes.

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