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Derrick Harris
Friday, August 27, 2010

Days like today are the calm before the storm in IT. Aside from the ongoing Dell-HP-3PAR bidding war, there is precious little going because everybody is bracing for VMworld next week. There will be so much virtualization and cloud computing news that your head will spin, but look on the bright side: I’m the one who has to wade through it all and determine what’s what. In addition to vCloud Service Director, I’m anxious to see what else (that I haven’t already been told about) gets announced. I suspect the cloud discussion will take another step forward from here on out.

Computing roundtable: CIOs say the network is key to cloud success

An insightful -- if not exactly revolutionary -- perspective on the pros and cons of investing high-profile projects in the cloud. And some reflection about how to avoid a situation like Amazon's back in April.

Submitted by Paul Miller
PaaS is the future of cloud services

An interesting take by Krishnan Subramanian on VMware's open-cloud approach through CloudFoundry.

Submitted by Paul Miller
Okta’s seamless directory integration

Okta just announced a cloud-based identity service that will seamlessly combine cloud and on-premise apps. This could be the answer for the many people who want a seamless directory for their apps.

Submitted by Paul Miller
Verizon buys CloudSwitch for cloud application mobility

Verizon has acquired CloudSwitch, which it plans to merge with Terremark. Since Verizon is pretty deep in the scramble for large presence in the cloud enterprise, this seems like a smart move.

Submitted by Paul Miller
3 reasons the feds are avoiding cloud computing

The federal government can think of plenty of reasons not to move its data to the cloud (recent attacks on internal governmental systems, for example). David Linthicum thinks it comes down to money, talent and control.

Submitted by Paul Miller