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• Extreme looks to one-up Cisco, others in data center

  LAS VEGAS - At Interop this week, Extreme Networks rolled out two new switches designed to migrate users from legacy data center infrastructures into cloud computing environments. 

• HP takes swipes at Cisco on Interop stage

  LAS VEGAS -- It's not often HP and Cisco share the same stage during a keynote address. But today at Interop that's exactly what they did -- and HP didn't share the stage nicely.

• 5 virtualization management tips to live by

  Neither cloud computing nor virtual servers were intended as agents that would change traditional IT organizations, says Rachel Dines, a researcher at Forrester Research (FORR) who specializes in IT infrastructure and management. But IT organization and management issues are turning out to be nearly as important as the technology itself to making large-scale virtual-server migrations effective.

• World's servers process 9.57ZB of data a year

  Three years ago, the world's 27 million business servers processed 9.57 zettabytes, or 9,570,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of information.

• Dell extends data center line for virtualization

  LAS VEGAS -- At the Interop trade show this week, Dell will expand its networking, server and storage product lines to help users migrate from legacy data centers to those more heavily reliant on virtualization.

• EMC's Iomega launches NAS storage line for smaller businesses

  EMC subsidiary Iomega today unveiled a new series of simple disk storage arrays aimed at small-to-medium sized businesses and remote offices.

• Ninefold reports hundreds of Cloud customers

  Macquarie Telecom’s move into self-managed Cloud computing services has paid off, with Ninefold reporting hundreds of customers signing up to the service in the first four months.

• Brocade fleshes out cloud strategy for battle with Cisco, others

  Brocade today unveiled its plan for migrating customers to distributed, virtualized, Cloud-based data centers, along with products supporting that plan.

• Hosting virtual desktops: Tips for a successful outcome

  If you've already virtualized the servers in your data center, desktop virtualization may seem like the next logical step.

• Sydney cars to park in the Cloud

  Australian transaction processing company, Mercurion, has signalled plans to trial a car monitoring system in a Sydney metropolitan carpark based on Telstra's 'Silver Lining' Cloud.

• 5 virtualisation management tips to live by

  Neither Cloud computing nor virtual servers were intended as agents that would change traditional IT organisations, says Rachel Dines, a researcher at Forrester Research who specialises in IT infrastructure and management. But IT organisation and management issues are turning out to be nearly as important as the technology itself to making large-scale virtual-server migrations effective.

• Dirty little secrets of virtualization

  This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.

• Check your Cloud SLAs: Longhaus

  Local chief information officers and IT managers would be wise to take a closer look at their service-level agreements with Cloud providers following the Amazon EC2 service outage in eastern United States over the weekend.
  

• Amazon outage sparks frustration, doubts about cloud

  Amazon's prolonged outage of cloud services has the potential to set back cloud adoption by giving businesses -- especially those already on the fence -- a strong reason to go slow.

• Networking, telecom leaving VCs cold

  The overall amount of venture capital invested in startups is on the rise, though the networking and telecom industries haven’t been big contributors of late.