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Cisco Systems will be making aspects of its IP voice technology available virtually and selling them as a service as part of a continuing set of improvements to its cloud computing strategy, the company's CTO said. Read more...

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Forrester Bucks Wisdom on Cloud Computing
A couple of weeks ago Forrester released a report on cloud computing, based upon a survey of small and large enterprises located in North America and Europe. I was particularly interested in its findings as it addressed the question of private (internal) cloud computing, given my recent CIO.com blog series, "The Case Against Cloud Computing."

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VMware upgrade reaches for the clouds
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Virtualization Security: Protecting Unique IP
Moving to a nearly fully-virtualized infrastructure in 2008 made Joel Braverman a lot more confident in both the physical and digital IT infrastructure at his (relatively new) employer Universal Audio. As manager of IT and the guy responsible for security on that infrastructure-one that supports a company whose products are both expensive and almost entirely digital-it also made him extremely nervous, he says.

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