Why the Government Doesn’t Care if ‘Cloud’ is the Correct Term 
Derrick Harris- Monday, February 8, 2010
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Headlines this week were dominated by the general availability of Microsoft Windows Azure and, shockingly, even more debate over the definition of cloud computing. However, while analysts and pundits were debating how many companies will use Microsoft’s new cloud, or whether “hybrid cloud” is an accurate term, some very real work was getting underway – all under the cloud moniker. The entity responsible for it all? The United States government. Subscribe now or sign in to view this Weekly Update »
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What will be a bigger driver of Hadoop in everyday companies: Hadoop-driven databases, or commercialized standard Hadoop for batch analytics (presumably with some ties to existing databases)?
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IBM Launches Power7 Systems; Wages YouTube, Facebook War on Oracle’s Sun
It's a little humorous that Oracle started talking about becoming the next IBM as if IBM no longer existed. Well, it does, and it has the systems and marketing know-how to remind everyone that it's still in charge.
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There is no doubt that service management and cloud services are set to converge. Zyrion is among a number of vendors pursuing just such a vision.
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Tories Will Force BT to Open Up Ducts to Rivals
It's no secret that we can only realize the full potential of the web if everybody is connected at high speed. Steps like this are a little forceful, but they'll get the job done. Right?
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6%Estimated overlap of customers between NetApp and storage efficiency leader Data Domain
From Infrastructure Wrap-up: Q1 2009
10%The percentage of cloud services that can be accounted for by SaaS in 2008.
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Feb 9, 2010 — I wrote a post for GigaOM today on startup Nusani, whose approach to cloud storage is worth noting here, too. Nusani's virtual-appliance-based offering is a full-featured filer that taps into existing cloud platforms (e.g., Amazon S3) to actually store the data. Cloud providers don't want to get into the business-grade storage game, so they're partnering with Nusani as a value-add to their services. Also, check out the news of Eucalyptus and Terracotta joining forces. Eucalyptus needs partnerships to add value to its EC2-inspired software, and Terracotta is a great one for scalability-hungry web apps.
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If Oracle's cloud-computing pony is hitched to the private-cloud wagon, then it follows that they will have to change the direction when cloud computing catches on. Then it may prove too late.
—gopireddy on Oracle Puts the Kibosh on Sun’s Cloud, and Everybody Hurts
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