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Ozzie reveals Azure, Microsoft’s development cloud | Network World

Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie Monday revealed Windows Azure, Microsoft's cloud-computing platform that allows developers to build and host their services on Microsoft infrastructure.

Nvidia, Citrix crank up virtual desktop delivery | Network World

Improvements to Nvidia's virtualization technology are aimed at turning graphics processors into a more important resource in data centers and could speed deployment of virtual desktops and delivery of data over the cloud.

Forbes CIO puts project management in the cloud | Network World

If you really want to know if a technology or business system works, don't ask anybody, ask a CIO. Your peers know all too well the pain of failure, but also the joy of success. Mykolas Rambus, CIO at publishing group Forbes is one CIO who is a keen advocate of Project Portfolio Management (PPM). Rambus and a growing number of CIOs are discovering that PPM ticks business boxes, technology boxes and financial boxes as a software as a service offering.

Powerful thin clients may be alternative to PCs | Network World

Thin clients introduced this week by Dell and Hewlett-Packard have faster processor than existing thin clients as well as high-definition graphics capabilities, so they could be alternatives to traditional PCs as computing continues moving to the cloud.

SAP shakes up development organization | Network World

SAP has abruptly reorganized its development strategy, with SuccessFactors CEO and cloud strategy chief Lars Dalgaard leaving the company and executive board member Vishal Sikka now tapped to lead a single software development unit.

IDC: Economic crisis to bolster cloud computing | Network World

The current economic crisis in the U.S. may have a silver lining for IT companies that invest in cloud computing, as it will contribute to significant growth in that sector over the next five years, according to research firm IDC.

Intel jumps into cloud gaming with first Haswell server chip | Network World

Intel is jumping into cloud gaming with the new Xeon E3-1200v3 chips, which are the company's first server processors based on the Haswell microarchitecture.

Money meltdown, Ozzie’s cloud, security worries | Network World

At least those of us who are fans of professional baseball have the playoffs to take our minds off the grim news this week (at least that's the case for fans of the teams that are winning). The U.S. financial system meltdown smacked world markets and set off a whole lot of worry, which tended to overshadow all the other news.

HP’s building an avatar to manage your mobile connections | Network World

Hewlett-Packard researchers are developing a cloud-based "avatar" to manage all of a user's mobile devices and wireless networks.

Cisco fills out SDN family with 40G switch, controller, cloud gear for data center | Network World

Cisco this week will fill out its programmable networking family with a new line of data center switches, cloud connectivity extensions and a software-based SDN controller.

Amazon’s EC2 plays nice with Windows | Network World

Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) hosted infrastructure service for developers will expand its choice of operating systems and databases to include Microsoft's Windows Server and SQL Server.

One year in, Yammer grows in importance to Microsoft | Network World

For a product once described as Twitter with a business model, Yammer is becoming more nuanced, morphing into an important feature set that will cross over among Microsoft applications. Just as important, it continues seeing growth and popularity among businesses, where it can act as a hook that can encourage current Microsoft customers to upgrade and adopt Microsoft cloud services.

Red Hat shakes up OpenStack lineup | Network World

Red Hat announced a large-scale restructuring of its OpenStack-based offerings today, bundling its Enterprise Linux software with the OpenStack platform, and creating a more comprehensive infrastructure product for private-cloud IaaS.

Amazon’s cloud queue service stumbles | Network World

Amazon's hosted Simple Queue Service (SQS) has encountered performance problems this month that have prompted users to question its overall stability and its viability for commercial applications.

Nokia Siemens to merge cloud, base-station computing to boost performance | Network World

Nokia Siemens Networks will expand the role of cellular base stations with a new platform that will store and deliver some application data locally, while tapping into information about subscribers and traffic to improve the process.

EMC’s forecast: cloud storage and flash drives | Network World

EMC predicts big things from flash drives and cloud storage.

Capgemini to orchestrate Microsoft cloud products with Skysight offering | Network World

Capgemini is introducing a hybrid cloud orchestration service focused on Microsoft products, although enterprises will be able to manage any load with the offering, including applications running on Linux, the company said.

EU cloud computing contracts to go under the microscope | Network World

The way in which European cloud computing contracts are drawn up is to come under scrutiny by a team of experts.

Rackspace launches cloud storage | Network World

IT hosting vendor Rackspace launches cloud storage service similar to Amazon's S3 service.

‘Security in the cloud’ is not the way to go | Network World

Bruce Schneier, CTO of Counterpane Internet Security, argues that security in the cloud should not replace more-traditional network and desktop security.

Yes, ‘security in the cloud’ is the way to go | Network World

Brad Miller, CEO of Perimeter Internetworking, argues in favor of 'security in the cloud.'

Memo from Steve Ballmer to Microsoft Employees: Let’s go! | Network World

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today announced a reorganization of the company around four areas: operating systems; devices and studios; applications and services; and cloud and enterprise.

Report: Cloud computing poised for enterprise adoption | Network World

Gartner has named cloud computing, green IT and social-computing platforms among technologies that are poised to reach broad enterprise adoption in the next two to five years.

Clouds & storms: Nicholas G. Carr on cloud computing | Network World

Working for a frozen water company must have seemed like a sensible career move in New England during the 1850s. During the age of steam, America's ice traders carved 10 million tons of the stuff out of local rivers and lakes every year. They kept it cool in specially constructed icehouses, wrapped it in hay and then exported it around the world.

BroadSoft CEO: Here’s why communications is moving to the cloud | Network World

 Michael Tessler cofounded BroadSoft in 1998 after coming from Alcatel, and has since grown it into a publicly traded company with annual revenue of more than $160 million. In a recent interview with IDG Enterprise Chief Content Officer John Gallant, Tessler explained how Broadsoft sees the hosted communications landscape and the role of mobile devices.