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Amazon.com is getting ready to offer a video streaming service and when it does a major market battle may develop between it and Google. – Amazon.com is making plans to add a subscription-based video
streaming service to its list of offerings and is trying to drum up
support for it among media companies, the Wall Street Journal is
reporting. The publication said that the service would compete quite
well with Netflixs Instant Stream…

Amazon is getting ready to offer a video streaming service and when it does a major market battle may develop between it and Google. – Amazon is making plans to add a subscription-based video streaming service to its list of offerings and is trying to drum up support for it among media companies, the Wall Street Journal is reporting. The publication said that the service would compete quite well with Netflixs Instant Streaming opti…

When it comes to voice and video, Google should think collaboration and not competition. –

As it currently stands, Googles recent addition of Public Switched Telephone Network
voice calling to Gmail is much ado about nothing. While the feature works well enough
and Google enjoyed a nice burst of voice traffic right after launch, I can only
hope the move is the first s…

Running on VMware’s bread-and-butter vSphere platform, the new management controls include general management, security, data center services, and outside consulting services. – SAN FRANCISCO — VMware pulled the wraps off a series of new products and services Aug. 31 at its VMworld 2010 expo and conference here at the Moscone Center, all with the purpose of helping VMware users gain better control of their cloud computing deployments.

In fact, by using these new assets,…

VMware vCloud Director lowers the barrier to creating private and hybrid cloud offerings by enabling IT to offer a virtual data center as a service catalog offering. vCloud director puts an easy access interface on compute, storage and network resource pools and wraps policy around deployment options to maintain separation and security. – VMware gave me a sneak peek at vCloud Director, which leads
me to think that the company is about to set a new benchmark for virtualized
IT.

What’s new is that vCloud Director, which VMware released last week at VMworld in
San Francisco, enables IT to
combine pooled compute, network and stor…

RSA Solution for Cloud Security and Compliance is aimed at managing security, risk and regulatory compliance of cloud infrastructures–multitenant or otherwise. – On Day One of VMworld 2010,
EMC’s RSA security arm on Aug. 30 introduced a new integrated security
and compliance package designed expressly for multitenant cloud
computing.

RSA Solution for Cloud Security and Compliance is aimed at managing
security, risk and regulatory compliance of cloud
…

VMware announces a new Cloud Application Platform that leverages Spring and the company’s new vFabric application services. – VMware has announced its new Cloud Application Platform,
which capitalizes on some of the company’s key acquisitions and combines the
Spring Java development framework with VMware’s new vFabric application
services.
The announcement comes out of VMware’s VMworld conference
in San Francisco, whe…

Microsoft renames Windows Live Sync, its cloud-syncing service, Windows Live Mesh. The service’s cloud storage has been expanded from 2GB to 5GB. – Microsoft has decided that Windows Live Sync, its cloud-syncing service,
will receive a name change actually, make that a name reversion to Windows Live
Mesh. In addition, the service will now offer 5GB of free cloud-storage space,
up from 2GB, and the ability to sync hidden files.
The company …

Cloud computing is currently one of the hottest topics in the IT industry due to the legitimate benefits of the cloud. At issue, however, are ways to secure data in the cloud. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Taher Elgamal explains how organizations can leverage existing "command and control" IT investments while taking advantage of cloud computing’s benefits. – For the most part, current IT investments have been ignored as part of the cloud security equation, amounting to years of wasted budget. This is especially true with policies and directories that pertain to keeping the data secure, with only the right people accessing it quot;command and control qu…

Vendor polarization between cloud-based and on-premises solutions is undermining the value of both infrastructure models. To reap the most benefits, organizations need to look for solutions that seamlessly and transparently support both cloud-based and on-premises deployment. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Ed Harnish explains why organizations should leverage both cloud-based and on-premises approaches to meet their evolving business needs. – From data backup technologies to antivirus solutions, vendor polarization between on-premises and cloud-based solutions is forcing organizations to make difficult and unnecessary choices. On-premises solutions should not just be limited to organizations with great in-house resources, nor should busi…