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• Survey: IT wants public and private cloud services

  Skeptics who disparage the concept of the so-called private cloud and doubt its relevance should think again, according to research from IDC.

• Business school swaps Google Apps for Microsoft Live@edu

  A French business school plans to trade Google Apps, used by around half its staff and students, for Microsoft's rival Live@edu service.

• HP buys Melodeo

  Hewlett-Packard confirmed on Wednesday that it had acquired Melodeo, its second recent acquisition in the mobile market.

• Juniper seeks to out-virtualize Cisco in data centers

  Juniper Networks' <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/051710-juniper-collapses-data-center.html">announcement</a> this week of switches and routers designed to flatten and simplify legacy networks is the latest sign that this company has no intention of backing off in the face of ever stiffer data center competition from Cisco, HP and others.

• HP taps Iannotti to run enterprise services business

  Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday shuffled executives, tapping an internal candidate, Tom Iannotti, to run the enterprise services business for the company.

• Dell launches dedicated services organization

  Dell has launched a dedicated services organization, appropriately named Dell Services, that will focus on midmarket enterprise customers. The company formed the unit by integrating Perot Systems, purchased Nov. 3 for US$3.9 billion, with the enterprise services operation from its own Large Enterprise business unit.

• HP reports solid Q4 on services growth

  Hewlett-Packard reported an 18 percent jump in profit for its fiscal fourth quarter, thanks in large part to the strength of its services business.

• IT employment may be stabilizing after loss of 250,000 jobs

  The apparent turn in the U.S. economy may have put the brakes on the IT job loss freefall, according to some new data.

• Security software and services budgets to increase in 2010

  Overall IT budgets may have been put on a diet in the current economic climate, but security software and services spending is tipped to outpace other IT areas in 2010, according to a new survey by Gartner.
  

• NTT Data buys up Extend Technologies

  Tokyo-based NTT Data has completed its acquisition of Australian SAP services and consulting business, Extend Technologies. NTT Data acquired a 51 per cent shareholding in Extend, establishing a presence for the company in the Oceania region for the first time.