Cloud Computing & the Public Sector ?

Source: AMD and Redshift Research

Cloud Infographic: The World And Big Data

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Going to the Cloud - Cloud in Education

A very good Infographic that looks at how schools and colleges are adopting 'the cloud' and how Adobe, IBM, Microsoft, and Google are responding with their respective cloud suites for educators.

From: OnlineColleges.net

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What's new in VMware vSphere 5.1

Today VMware announced vSphere 5.1. This posting will give an overview of the most interesting new features.

vSphere 5.1 will be available September 11 2012 !!

Some highlights are as follows:

• Paul Maritz steps down as CEO after leading the company for 4 years. His successor is Pat Gelsinger
• VMware is focused on building the architecture for Cloud Computing which is called the Software Defined Datacenter
• vCloud Suite is announced, consisting of:
  • vSphere
  • vCloud Director
  • vCloud Networking and Security
  • Site Recovery Manager
  • vCenter Operations Manager
  • vFabric Application Director
  • vCloud API’s
  • vCloud Connector
  • vCenter Orchestrator

vSphere 5.1 is announced

vCloud Director 5.1 is announced

vCloud Networking and Security 5.1 is announced

vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.1 is announced

vRAM is no more! VMware will use a priced per CPU model

Cloud Ops, a new operating model for IT

Monster VMs will get bigger: 64 virtual CPUs and 1 million IOPS...per VM

Enhanced vMotion: Live migration without the need of shared storage!

New virtualized storage options

Create secure and logical networks using the new vCloud Networking & Security suite and VXLAN

vSphere 5.1 contains a full featured browser based vSphere Client, the Web Client

The vCloud Director interface is now vSphere Web Client style

The vSphere Web Client now offers great extensibility options for 3rd party vendors

Use vFabric Application Director for deploying complex applications

Existing vSphere Enterprise Plus customers will get a free upgrade to the vCloud Suite

VMware recently acquired Nicira, a company that virtualizes networking

More detailed information on all these announcements follow below:

VMware changed the features in the vSphere editions. The features below all are available now in Standard Edition as well.