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IT as a Service (ITaaS) covers private clouds and the cloud management offerings used to create internal and hybrid IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS clouds.

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News: AppSense DataNow: Anywhere data access that starts in the enterprise

August 31, 2012
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DataNow Essentials is now available. DataNow allows you to integrate with what is already there, with no need to provision more storage or migrate data, thus keeping cost and complexity low and speeding deployment time, and avoids cloud or storage vendor lock-in. Datanow is available to existing customers of AppSense's user virtualization product suite free…

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VMworld 2012: A Contrarian Position on VMware’s New Licensing Model

August 30, 2012
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Given the level of applause that greeted the announcement of VMware's new pricing model, I know this will open me up to criticism, but was the old VMware licensing model really all that bad? It certainly wasn't perfect, and there's an awful alot to like about the new model, but was the old license pricing…

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VMworld 2012: Liquidware Labs Unveils On-Demand Department Installed Applications Feature

August 28, 2012
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User virtualisation is rightly being seen as more than profile management. Applications and data are key to the making a generic desktop a viable workspace. With ProfileUnity FlexApp's Department Installed Applications Liquidware could be the first to deliver on the dream of a more dynamic application mechanism across enterprise desktop environments.

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VMworld 2012: VMware joins OpenStack

August 27, 2012
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Some interesting news about VMWare was made public on Sunday 26th August - the day before VMWorld - that VMware joins OpenStack. This appears to be driven largely by the acquisition of Nicira - and the role that Nicira currently plays in the implementation of virtual networking in OpenStack.

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VMworld 2012: VMware Kills the vTax – Repackages and Reprices the Product Line

August 27, 2012
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VMware has killed the vTax and standardized upon per CPU socket pricing for its key new product, the vCloud Suite. Additionally VMware has removed the vRam entitlements from the core vSphere offerings.

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VMworld 2012: Important New Features in vSphere 5.1

August 27, 2012
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The vSphere 5.1 enhancements are more designed to better fit vSphere into the vCloud Suite as well as move the bar further on virtualizable workloads. vSphere 5.1 allows the virtualization of high performance graphics, real-time, HPC, and big data workloads.

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VMworld 2012: VMware Launches vCloud Director 5.1

August 27, 2012
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As a key part of the new vCloud Suite, vCloud Director 5.1 gets a bunch of new features, and takes on a new role. The new role is that vCD is built into the suite, and is the layer where the cross-cluster capabilities are implemented. Therefore vCD becomes much less of a Cloud Management solution,…

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VMworld 2012: VMware Launches the vCloud Suite

August 27, 2012
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With the vCloud Suite as a family of three SKU's, VMware has executed the most significant re-packaging of its software products in its history. The high end of the suite now includes vSphere, vCloud Director, and most of VMware's management offerings.

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OnLive – bad management, or an example of DaaS immaturity?

August 24, 2012
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Could OnLive have succeeded? Were they doomed to failure to failure before the off? What are the key questions you should be looking to have answered from your DaaS service provider? It is said that OnLive give an example how-not-to-do DaaS. DaaS is viewed as an upcoming market - is there a wider lesson to…

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