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October 22, 2013
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Gartner: By 2017, the hybrid cloud will rule

Gartner is predicting that by 2017 half of enterprises will have moved to hybrid clouds. Yes, they’re serious.

How things change. Only three years ago, the research giant found that most businesses still didn’t get the cloud. They looked at it as a way to secure the virtual data center. We’d now call that a private cloud

That was then. This is now.

Today, Gartner vice president and distinguished analyst Thomas J. Bittman, states that Nearly half of large enterprises polled have deployed a private cloud service, and only 11% have no plans to do so through 2014.” OK, unless you’ve been living under a rock you knew that. The cloud, like it or lump it, is IT’s future.

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October 21, 2013
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Ubuntu Touch: The smartphone Ubuntu Linux arrives

Ubuntu 13.10 is great on the desktop. On smartphones, Saucy Salamander, aka Ubuntu Touch, is still a work in progress. That said, for mobile programmers and Linux or smartphone power users, there’s a lot to like about this first release of Ubuntu for smartphones and tablets. Here’s what you need to know about it today.

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October 17, 2013
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OpenStack Havana: Open-source cloud for the enterprise

Businesses have taken to OpenStack, the open-source, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud, like ducks to water. Major companies such as PayPal, Intel, and WikiMedia, the group behind Wikipedia, are using OpenStack in their clouds. On October 17, OpenStack’s Havana, the eighth release of this IaaS for public, private, and hybrid clouds, brings its enterprise customers several new improvements.

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October 15, 2013
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Cisco projects data center-cloud traffic to triple by 2017

According to networking giant Cisco, it’s a cloud, cloud, cloud, cloud world as cloud-based network traffic explodes. Besides data center/cloud network growing at a remarkable rate, Cisco also foresees the majority of server workloads moving from traditional servers to the cloud by 2014.

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