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• Nasuni's cool new feature: Manage worldwide data from a single screen

  Nasuni, which offers cloud integrated storage, has a nifty new feature that lets global companies manage all of their data from around the world on a single screen.

• HP announces Cloud platform based on OpenStack

  HP executives have announced a cloud platform based on OpenStack amid a flurry of other cloud-related announcements at the HP World Tour in Beijing.

• Linux Foundation sees broadening role for developers

  Linux developers were once just that, developers. But their role is changing says the Linux Foundation, which is expanding its training options to help them.

• The time is now for 'Open Ethernet'

  In today's data center you need to be able to add services and hardware without compromising network performance, but the flexibility to tune the network to meet business needs is also mandatory.

• Forrester: PaaS makes developers happy

  Although the platform as a service (PaaS) market is smaller than both IaaS and SaaS segments of the Cloud computing industry, research firm Forrester says this technology could be one of the most important cloud-based services for businesses moving forward.

• Can Red Hat do for OpenStack what it did for Linux?

  Red Hat made its first $1 billion commercializing Linux. Now, it hopes to make even more doing the same for OpenStack.

• Red Hat shakes up OpenStack lineup

  Red Hat announced a large-scale restructuring of its OpenStack-based offerings today, bundling its Enterprise Linux software with the OpenStack platform, and creating a more comprehensive infrastructure product for private-cloud IaaS.

• Startup touts private cloud as a service

  You can buy pretty much anything in IT today "as a service," and now it's come to this: 2011 startup company named Metacloud claims to be one of the first to offer a cloud-based service of cloud computing resources.

• Juniper keeps its simplification promise

  As promised, Juniper has added automation and orchestration features to its campus and data center switches, including OpenStack support.

• Get ready for a flood of new Hadoop apps

  The latest release of Apache Hadoop code includes a new workload management tool that backers of the project say will make it easier for developers to build applications for the big data platform.

• Dell dumps OpenStack and VMware for public cloud, focuses on private clouds

  Dell has dramatically shifted its cloud computing strategy, canceling plans it once had to launch a public cloud service based on the OpenStack open source platform, and discontinuing a VMware-based public cloud it already has on the market.

• Dell 'refining' plans for OpenStack-powered public cloud

  Fresh off the acquisition of a company that specializes in helping customers manage resources across multiple public clouds, Dell said it is "refining" its own plans to build a public cloud based on OpenStack.

• Dell buys Enstratius to beef up multi-cloud management chops

  Dell has purchased Enstratius, a company that allows customers to manage cloud resources across multiple providers from a single management console for an undisclosed sum this week.

• Debian wheezes out Version 7

  The latest version of Debian -- Version 7.0, codenamed "Wheezy" -- is now in stable release, bringing with it accessibility enhancements, a new version of the GNOME 3.4 desktop environment and support for multiple hardware architectures.

• The cloud's the limit for new Arista, Brocade and HP switches

  Cloud scaling will be all the switching rage at this week’s Interop. Three major vendors last week took their platforms deeper into and then beyond the data center, outdueling each other on server access density and software programmability, two key attributes needed for the virtualized goldmine called the cloud. And in so doing, they have raised the bar and perhaps set the stage for one of the more anticipated announcements in SDN switching from Cisco spin-in Insieme.