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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.

• 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.

• OpenStack grows up: But is it grown up enough for enterprise IT?

  Less than a year ago the cool thing for IT vendors to do was jump on the OpenStack bandwagon.

• VMware buys virtual storage company Virsto

  VMware is rounding out its new "software-defined data center" strategy with the acquisition of virtual storage company Virsto Software.

• Startup takes aim at multi-hypervisor management

  An updated version of software from startup HotLink aims to ease the management of multi-hypervisor environments, as well as provision off-premises resources, like VMs from Amazon's cloud, all from VMware's vCenter management console.

• OpenFlow start-up Big Switch lands another big funding round

  OpenFlow controller start-up Big Switch Networks this week said it closed a $25 million Series B funding round to continue the expansion of the engineering, sales and marketing operations.

• What's next with hypervisors?

  The world of hypervisors is complicated by the fact that there are proprietary and open source tools and the latter are often pressed into service in different ways, say nothing of the fact that the whole market is evolving quickly.

• Deutsche Borse implements 10GB Juniper switches on Linux trade platforms

  Deutsche Borse, the German stock exchange based in Frankfurt, has implemented 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches from supplier Juniper Networks on its Linux-based trading platforms.

• Red Hat raids cloud storage market by acquiring Gluster

  Red Hat announced Tuesday that it is acquiring Gluster, which makes open-source software that clusters commodity SATA drives and NAS systems into massively scalable pools of storage, in a cash deal valued at about $136 million. Gluster is also a contributor to the OpenStack cloud project and Red Hat is promising this involvement will continue. Indeed, Red Hat is now uncharacteristically saying its support of OpenStack will grow even beyond Gluster to the next release of Fedora.

• Symantec cloud-based service seeks out 'rogue certificates'

  Symantec this week introduced what it calls the Symantec Certificate Intelligence Center, a cloud-based service that works with an on-premises software component to keep track of SSL server certificates used by an organization.

• Java 8 gears up for the cloud

  Now that Java 7 SE (Standard Edition) has officially been released, Oracle and members of the JCP (Java Community Process) have started mulling over what features to include in the next version of the programming language, Java SE 8. On the agenda for this new release: engineering Java for the cloud.

• Microsoft, Citrix join VMware at top of Gartner's Magic Quadrant

  It's getting harder for VMware to argue that it's the only game in town for big-time <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/102510-burning-questions-virtualization-storage.html">virtualization</a> projects.

• NYSE Euronext system glitch floors European trading

  The New York Stock Exchange's European stock markets were this morning floored for two hours, after a significant system problem hit trading for a second day.

• Big vendors look to challenge VMware with open source

  Several big IT vendors, including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, BMC Software, Intel and Red Hat, announced this week that they are banding together to promote an open-source virtualization platform -- Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) -- as an alternative to VMware.

• Red Hat bashes Microsoft, VMware while pitching new cloud software

  Microsoft and VMware are the enemies of interoperability, and only open source software can prevent cloud lock-in.