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• Rackspace to wind down Slicehost

  Some Slicehost users were dismayed to hear that Rackspace, which acquired the company in 2008, plans to wind down the service.

• Google defends Apps for Government

  Google went on the defensive on Wednesday, saying it never misled the U.S. government about Google Apps' compliance with an important security standard.

• VMware takes over Mozy backup service

  VMware has added another cloud service to its lineup, hiring Mozy's workers and acquiring its assets.

• Microsoft Intune goes live

  After a yearlong <a href="http://www.cio.com/article/599192/Microsoft_Expands_Intune_Beta_to_10_000_More_Users">beta program</a>, the Windows Intune hosted desktop management service is going live, Microsoft announced Wednesday.

• Unisys to help enterprises be smarter about move to cloud

  Unisys is packaging together existing and a few new consulting and management services in order to help enterprises better manage various cloud implementations.

• Cloud Cruiser aims to ease cloud chargeback issue

  As more companies shift more work to the cloud, they are struggling with a new financial problem, namely how to accurately charge business units for use of the cloud services.

• Amazon wants to make it easier to build complex clouds

  With the launch of CloudFormation, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is hoping to make it easier for enterprises to put together stacks of applications and resources for its cloud computing service, the company said on Friday.

• India's MindTree offers remote IT management tools

  MindTree, a mid-size Indian outsourcer, has developed its own remote IT infrastructure management service delivery platform, MWatch, in a bid to differentiate its remote management services from those of its larger competitors.

• Tata introduces cloud service for SMB segment

  Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India's largest outsourcer, is targeting small and medium-size businesses with a combination of hardware, networking, and office and business software on a pay-per-use model.

• IBM to build Asia's largest cloud computing center

  IBM and the China-based Range Technology will build a cloud computing data center near Beijing that the companies claim will be Asia's largest by floor space.

• Amazon's Beanstalk aims to make Web Services easier to use

  Amazon on Wednesday planned to introduce an offering that combines its Web services into one tool that is aimed at making it easier for customers to use and fine-tune the services.

• GoGrid offers hosted private cloud

  GoGrid has rolled out a hosted private cloud offering, designed to offer customers the benefits of the public cloud on dedicated hardware.

• Internap offers first major storage service using OpenStack

  Internap is offering a new public cloud storage service that it built using software from OpenStack, the open-source cloud software project kicked off last year by Rackspace and NASA.

• Dell services chief to leave company

  Dell said Thursday it has replaced the head of its $US8 billion services business, which it built up in late 2009 through its acquisition of Perot Systems.

• Amazon moves VMware's virtual machines to the cloud

  Amazon Web Services has announced a new feature called VM Import, which allows IT departments to move virtual machine images from their internal data centers to the cloud.