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• Startup moves Exchange mailboxes to Google or Microsoft cloud

  A startup founded by a former Citrix executive is aiming to help customers move Microsoft Exchange mailboxes to either Google Apps or Microsoft's own cloud.

• Vocus nets Perth DC in $7m deal

  Fibre wholesaler, Vocus Communications (ASX:VOC), has made its second major move into the data centre market with an agreement to acquire PerthIX for approximately $7 million.

• Microsoft: Next level of virtualization unlocks server OS, applications

  By now, most IT professionals are familiar with server and application virtualization. But Microsoft says it's time to get ready for the next layer: server application virtualization.

• Big data to drive a surveillance society

  NEW YORK -- As real-time and batch analytics evolve using big data processing engines such as Hadoop, corporations will be able to track our activities, habits and locations with greater precision than ever thought.

• Storms the cause of major power outages in 2010: Report

  Storms wreaked havoc within the data centre market in 2010, according to a new report.

• Holmesglen TAFE learns lessons, implements DR

  Holmesglen TAFE has reduced its server hardware costs by 30 per cent after implementing a disaster recovery solution and new wireless network throughout its three campuses.

• Rogue game server admins tell all

  Back in January, Scandinavian gamers hijacked a New Hampshire medical center's server to host "Call of Duty: Black Ops" sessions. When asked about that incident, Stephen Heaslip of the gamer site Blues News said hackers are not the most likely individuals to commandeer corporate servers for illicit gaming: Such appropriations are more often the work of IT administrators. When asked if he could put us in touch with some of these rogue game server admins, Heaslip posted a call to his readership - and four volunteers stepped forward.

• Private Cloud can prevent end runs around IT, Microsoft says

  If IT shops want to prevent users from going to the Cloud, they have to bring the Cloud to the users.

• Industry split on data center network standards

  Despite competing standards and proprietary alternatives already on the market, the IETF insists that TRILL is gaining momentum as a method for solving Ethernet scalability problems in data center networks.

• Market briefs: NextDC new data centre site, Objective implements uEngage, Mnet director resigns

  NextDC starts due diligence on data centre site purchase; Objective executes deal for WA consultation; Mnet director Bruno Fiorentini quits

• Blue Coat reveals plans for Sydney data centre

  Security vendor, Blue Coat, is set to ramp up its Cloud services in Australia with the construction of a data centre in Sydney by July.

• HP's Leo Apotheker: We're heading to the cloud

  A day after Hewlett-Packard CEO Leo Apotheker outlined his strategic vision for HP -- a plan chock-full of new cloud offerings -- he sat down with IDG Enterprise Chief Content Officer John Gallant and InfoWorld Editor in Chief Eric Knorr to share his thoughts on a wide variety of issues in this latest installment of the IDGE CEO Interview Series. In this conversation, Apotheker, who's been with HP just over four months, talked about why HP is better positioned than IBM to help customers deliver on the promise of cloud and how he plans to rapidly eclipse the likes of IBM, Oracle, and others in the analytics market. (Short answer: Apotheker will leave old-school BI to the other players. HP's focus will be on analytics and Big Data.)

• In brief: NextDC gears up for capital raising round

  Recently listed data centre provider, NextDC (ASX:NXT), has initiated a trading halt on the stock exchange pending at the beginning of a capital-raising round from the company.

• Symantec to release end-to-end cloud management software

  Symantec plans to release a full refresh of its Storage Foundation and Veritas Operations Manager software, which will include features allowing end-to-end management of private cloud infrastrutures.

• Three bullet points: Apotheker's battle plan for Apple, IBM, the world

  The world of new Hewlett-Packard CEO Leo Apotheker is lot more complicated than the one imagined by his predecessors.