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• Cisco and IBM offer a managed private cloud service

  Cisco and IBM have partnered to offer managed private cloud-as-a-service for VMware and IBM/RedHat OpenShift environments.

• IBM closes Red Hat deal for $34 billion

  IBM has officially gobbled up Red Hat for $34 billion, a technology acquisition considered one of the largest in history.

• How to balance cloud investment risk

  The C-suite and boards of directors often think about investment decisions under three key pillars – Will this decision make money? Will it save money elsewhere? And what is the risk?

• Macquarie launches cloud for health data

  Macquarie Cloud Services on Tuesday launched a secure private cloud offering for the health care sector.

• Westpac claims Australian banking first with offsite private cloud move

  ​Westpac today announced it has implemented an offsite private cloud environment in 'an Australian banking first'.

• Exclusive research: IT commits to cloud computing

  Cloud budgets are rising as IT confronts security and ROI challenges, according to the 2013 Cloud Computing Survey from IDG Enterprise (free download). (Insider: Registration required)

• IT's new concern: The personal Cloud

  As personal and professional Clouds converge, IT's mission to improve productivity while protecting corporate apps and data is getting tougher.

• 2012: The year Cloud computing took a bite out of IT

  As new public cloud plays leap in and the private cloud slowly evolves, we're on the brink of a shift to cloud computing for critical business workloads

• Why private cloud will make IT think like Wal-Mart

  Public. Private. Hybrid. Cloudburst. Much of the discussion about cloud computing focuses on deployment options and choices, with a surprisingly large number of enterprises inclining toward internal private clouds-that is, a cloud-capable infrastructure residing within a company's own data center.

• Ausenco virtualises to 95 percent, upgrades DR capability

  Australian engineering, project management and operations company Ausenco has undertaken a major virtualisation and disaster recovery (DR) upgrade as a foundation to developing a private cloud for its core enterprise applications.

Whitepapers about private cloud

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  Web-scale infrastructure at any scale

  Consolidate compute and storage into a single chassis with Dell XC Series web-scale converged appliances, powered by Nutanix software. XC Series appliances install quickly, integrate easily into any data centre, and can be deployed for multiple virtualised workloads including desktop virtualisation, test and development, and private cloud projects.

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  Changing The Rules Of The Game: Top 5 Reasons To Adopt Application-Aware Storage

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  State of Hybrid Cloud

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  Why everyone’s talking about Azure