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Eucalyptus CTO discusses open source private clouds

Rich Wolski, UCSB professor and CTO of recently-established Eucalyptus Systems, discusses the company's first commercial product for the enterprise, an open source private cloud platform that supports Amazon AWS APIs and leverages VMware.

Why CIOs are taking a new look at shared services

Cloud computing, the economy and collaboration tools make it easy to share IT services with other companies in your industry.

Seven half-truths about virtualisation

Cutting through the hype around virtualisation technology.

Cloud computing: Calculating hidden costs

Look out for these ancillary expenditures when you budget for cloud storage.

What a week: top stories you may have missed

Microsoft embraces Linux and stuns market with revenue declines, HSBC's record fine for data breach, IT departments struggle to make cuts, IT professionals' career development frustrations. These stories and more in your weekly roundup.

Nicholas Carr: How cloud computing will disrupt IT

Nicholas Carr, author of the tech-contentious Harvard Business Review article "IT Doesn't Matter" and, more recently a book "The Big Switch," spoke with Tom Sullivan, Editor at Large of InfoWorld, a sister title of ComputerWorld UK about how enterprises will transition to a more utility-like model for IT, why a small cadre of companies is gobbling up 20 percent of the world's servers and the unheard of possibilities that creates, how Web 2.0 replicates business fundamentals, as well the human factor in all of this.

EMC, Cisco and the battle for next-generation private clouds

Enterprises could make their datacentres more efficient by turning them into private computing clouds - but the biggest winners could be companies like EMC and Cisco Systems, which stand to win a bigger share of datacentre spending.

Nicholas Carr gets on the cloud

Nicholas Carr, the controversial academic, believes the shift to cloud computing will mirror the transition that manufacturers made from generating their own power to relying on utilities in the early 20th century. Here he spells out his views to ComputerWorld.