Cloud CIO: 5 Key Pieces of Rollout Advice

	Cancer Center Builds Texas-Sized Cloud | Cloud Computing Standards: Too Many, Doing Too Little
	CIO Virtualization				Forward this to a Friend >>>
	Cloud CIO: 5 Key Pieces of Rollout Advice Once you decide to take cloud as the medicine for what ails your IT organization, you'll have to change organizational process, not just infrastructure says CIO.com's Bernard Golden. He shares some expert advice on that, plus standardization, training, and related rollout issues. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Move fearlessly among the clouds. It's open, yet secure. Agile, yet efficient. Virtual, yet real. It builds on your current network, combining servers, networking, storage and virtualization. So you can deploy applications in minutes, not weeks. Move among the clouds. Grow your business. And turn silos into new ways of working together. Introducing the Cisco data center business advantage. In this Issue Cancer Center Builds Texas-Sized Cloud Cloud Computing Standards: Too Many, Doing Too Little Dell's New Servers Come Preloaded with Hundreds of Virtual Machines Dell to Invest $1 Billion to Boost Data Storage Products Cisco CEO Calls for Dramatic Cuts and a Narrowing of Priorities Facebook Goes Green with Data Center Revamps Pharma Firm Bans Non-SaaS Apps Take the Fast Track to Private Clouds Get a Net-Workout with Cloud-enabled Gym Gear WHITE PAPER: NetApp & CSC Desktop Virtualization: A Strategy for Success This paper includes results from a survey among CIOs and IT leaders about their desktop virtualization plans, as well as insights and best practices toward its implementation. Read now! Cancer Center Builds Texas-Sized Cloud As researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center work at "making cancer history," they're doing so with the help of compute power and storage capacity from a private cloud. Read More Cloud Computing Standards: Too Many, Doing Too Little The IEEE created a ripple in the cloud computing community this week by weighing in with its own proposals for cloud computing standards. But there's already the OVF standard and a few others -- creating duplication and not enough progress, analysts say. Read More Dell's New Servers Come Preloaded with Hundreds of Virtual Machines Dell on Thursday served up a new choice for buying its servers: plug-and-play configurations that include up to 200 VMware virtual machines along with the networking and storage needed to run them. Read More Dell to Invest $1 Billion to Boost Data Storage Products Dell plans to invest US$1 billion over the next three years to bolster its data storage products to business customers, with the money going toward the research of technology like cloud computing and virtualization, along with the development on new data centers. Read More WEBCAST: Dell Is Virtualization Safe for Business Critical Applications? Consolidate all your x86 servers and minimize infrastructure costs while building a flexible cloud computing infrastructure delivering business-critical applications as dynamic, cost-efficient, and reliable IT services. Learn More >> Cisco CEO Calls for Dramatic Cuts and a Narrowing of Priorities Dramatic expense cuts and a narrowed focus on five networking technologies, including video, are coming to Cisco Systems as part of a massive planned turnaround, Cisco CEO John Chambers told financial analysts Thursday. Read More Facebook Goes Green with Data Center Revamps Facebook said today that it is redesigning its data centers to be more eco-friendly and efficient. It comes in the form of a new initiative called the Open Compute Project, in which it hopes to share the custom-engineered technology in its first dedicated data center in Prineville, Oregon. Read More Pharma Firm Bans Non-SaaS Apps AMAG's IT needs are more efficiently and cost effectively served by public cloud providers, including infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and software-as-a-service (SaaS), than by internal systems and applications. Read More Take the Fast Track to Private Clouds If you're interested in achieving the benefits of a private cloud, but aren't sure you want to devote the time and resources to build one from scratch, there is an alternative - cloud-in-a-box. Read More Get a Net-Workout with Cloud-enabled Gym Gear High-tech gym equipment uses cloud computing to customize workouts. Read More
	Hot Picks for the Week CIO Resumes: Compare Yours to the Cream of the Crop 9 Best Social Networking Android Apps Google Apps: How We Convinced the C-Suite Switching Outsourcing Providers: 10 Tips Join CIO on Facebook! Images, Stories, RSS, Twitter and more!
	Get more CIO peer perspective online LinkedIn | Facebook | Twitter You are currently subscribed to cio_virtualization as info55383.news@blogger.com. Unsubscribe from this newsletter | Manage your subscriptions | Subscribe | Privacy Policy If you are interested in advertising in this newsletter, please contact: bglynn@cxo.com To contact CIO.com, please send an e-mail to online@cxo.com. Copyright (C) 2011 CIO, 492 Old Connecticut Path, P.O. Box 9208, Framingham, MA 01701 ** Please do not reply to this message. If you want to contact someone directly, send an e-mail to online@cxo.com. **