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Learn from Jack Welch: Online MBA to launch soon!

Popularized Six Sigma
For Welch, the new educational endeavor is the latest chapter in a long and storied career. As GE’s longtime chief, he developed a management philosophy based on relentless efficiency, productivity, and talent development. He popularized Six Sigma, wasn’t shy about firing his worst-performing managers, and advocated exiting any business where GE wasn’t the [...]

openQRM 4.5 Cloud Platform released with VCD (Visual Cloud Designer) and lots of features!

As you all know, openQRM is my favorite open source data center management product. Look at those new cool features…
Some more highlights of openQRM 4.5 :

A new plugin now integrates with Dell Equallogic Storage to support direct deployment of physical systems or virtual machines from the Equallogic Iscsi Target and to take advantage [...]

DARPA’s challenge to computing community: Build us a super petaflop computer that fits in 19” cabinet!

El Reg reporting. While the Bush gov was run by mules, this gov is really taking some daring steps. Take a look at the notional self-aware OS (SAOS) on page 8.
The military boffins say none of that is acceptable. They want a petaflop machine that fits in a single ExtremeScale cabinet and can be powered [...]

NY stock exchange choose networking giant Juniper’s gear with 10GbE switches!

This roadmap includes a set of 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches and routers available today and evolving to future products, developed under the code-name of Project Stratus at Juniper with Sun Microsystems’ former chip guru David Yen steering development. The devices are expected to include 40 Gigabit Ethernet and 100 Gigabit Ethernet switches that will allow [...]

HP’s storage blades for the future!

Very interesting indeed. We must not forget HP, IBM are powerhouses that will not take notice of the noises and will work harder on making their vision of being a one-stop-shop a reality. Many others are still trying to find common ground by bunging storage/virtualization/networks together. HP, with it’s ever increasingly popular PODs, will have [...]

Oracle’s InterCloud Initiative: Oracle VM 2.1.5 released with Web Services API

From Oracle’s virtualization blog
We are pleased to announce the availability of Oracle VM 2.1.5, bringing customers and partners the benefits of better interoperability with the new Oracle VM Manager Web Services API.
In addition, the latest Oracle VM 2.1.5 release has integrated accumulated bug fixes, security update, and enhanced hardware drivers to help customers confidently deploy [...]

Oracle beats expectations; books strong financial earnings

The company was also pleased with its non-GAAP results, which discount certain nonrecurring costs.
“We executed substantially better than we expected on both the top and bottom line for the quarter,” Oracle CFO Jeff Epstein said in a statement. “We grew Q4 non-GAAP operating margins by a faster than expected 240 basis points to over 51 [...]

Data Center buildout continues - Amazon is building another one in Oregon

Amazon buys a large volume of servers to support its cloud computing operations. It was the top customer for Rackable Systems/SGI in 2008, buying more than $86 million of the company’s cloud-optimized servers and storage.
Amazon is known to already operate a major East Coast data center in Ashburn, Virginia. The company has disclosed that it [...]

Free 4Tb CloudFolder by Caringa: Get it on your PC now!

Here’s a vid:

AUSTIN, Texas, June 23, 2009 – Caringo Inc., the leading provider of content storage software enabling clustered storage for active and archive content, today released CloudFolder, a free application for Windows that simplifies storing any files and folders to a CAStor™ cluster.
CloudFolder can be downloaded, installed, configured and ready to use in seconds. [...]

VMlogix CEO explains Lab Automation within Public and Private Cloud

Excellent video, Sameer explains very well.