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	<description>Roland Judas on Clouds and the future of IT</description>
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		<title>Now it&#8217;s official: Opalis sold to Microsoft</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As 451 group reported some weeks ago &#60;here&#62; and Forrester revoked &#60;here&#62; some days later, Run-Book-Automation and IT Process Automation leader Opalis is indeed sold to Microsoft, as it is announced on Technet.com Website &#60;&#8216;Microsoft Acquires Opalis Software&#8217;&#62;.
You can also find some interesting reading from Opalis&#8217; CEO Todd DeLaughter at the Opalis Blog &#60;&#8216;Opalis joins [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cloudblog.roland-judas.de/2009/12/now-its-official-opalis-sold-to-microsoft/</link>
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		<title>Opalis not sold, yet.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As if I knew it, it put the tag &#8216;rumors&#8217; to my post from the Oct. the 23rd. Now I learned from from Glenn O&#8217;Donnell&#8217;s Forrester blog for Infrastructure and Operation professionals that this rumor did not become true, yet. From my point of view this would have been a great fit, because it MIcrosoft [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cloudblog.roland-judas.de/2009/11/opalis-not-sold-yet/</link>
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		<title>Opalis goes to &#8212; Microsoft</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The battle over Automation Software makers goes to the next round: This time in the spotlight, canadian Run-Book-Automation and Orchestration software maker Opalis &#60;LINK&#62;.

Opalis started several years ago with the Opalis Robot, a tool that helps to automate administrative tasks aka Job scheduling and Process Automation. Later they renamed the robot to &#8216;Opalis Integration Server&#8216;, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cloudblog.roland-judas.de/2009/10/opalis-goes-to-microsoft/</link>
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		<title>EMC attacks Cloud Computing market</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just as a bunch of customers and partner are enjoying the great EMCWorld show in Orlando, AT&#38;T announces a new Cloud Storage offering, based on their round about 40 datacenters worldwide and the freshly announced EMC Atmos  internal to external Federation functionality. The service named Synaptic &#60;LINK&#62; is available for selected customers and will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cloudblog.roland-judas.de/2009/05/emc-attacks-cloud-computing-market/</link>
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		<title>IBM accelerates Blue Cloud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Still beeing in Las Vegas after 3 interesting days at IBM&#8217;s Tivoli Pulse 2009 &#60;LINK&#62;, I want give you some thoughs on IBM&#8217;s cloud strategy. Attending only one Session on Clouds (Manageing Clouds), I got the impression, that clouds are not a big deal, if you stick with IBM.
After months of rumors on &#8220;Blue Cloud [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cloudblog.roland-judas.de/2009/02/ibm-accelerates-blue-cloud/</link>
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		<title>Crossposting: Types of Automation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Automation, which seams to me right after cloud computing the hottest issue these days, comes in many flavours. Nearly every vendor offers some kind of  &#8220;Automation&#8221; solution. Especially in times, where the admin/server ratios skyrocketing from 1:5 up 1:10000 there seems to be some logical link between these two topics. Is Automation the key to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cloudblog.roland-judas.de/2009/01/crossposting-types-of-automation/</link>
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		<title>New ideas for new computing paradigms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What would you do if you had 1,000 times more data?&#8221; asked Google Senior Software engineer Christophe Bisciglia some time ago. To me this seems to be THE big point with cloud computing. After learning about economical and market forces driving the cloud wave, I still think that money and flexibility alone are only half [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cloudblog.roland-judas.de/2009/01/new-ideas-for-new-computing-paradigms/</link>
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		<title>Sun markets Cloud Computing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just saw a great offering from Sun for startups that prefer serverhugging
It is titled &#8220;Jumpstart Your Startup&#8220;.
Not only one gets cheap SUN hardware and access to hosted offering (DataPipe, Joyent, Layeredtech) but you also get free software and, here comes the twist, free VC connections. Isn&#8217;t this great?  To me this isn&#8217;t realy that cool offering, I waited for. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cloudblog.roland-judas.de/2009/01/sun-markets-cloud-computing/</link>
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		<title>The battle is about to continue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It looks like the financial crisis will help to clean not only financial markets, but also puts some pressure on top 2009 IT issues.
After breaking news in 2008 that Novell is extending their stand in IT Service Managment and Data center automation with acquiring Platespin and Managed Objects &#60;HERE&#62;,  these days SUN is shifting gears [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cloudblog.roland-judas.de/2009/01/the-battle-seems-to-continue/</link>
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		<title>How many clouds will we see in the future?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the keynote at the Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas, Gartner VP Thomas Bittman predicted that &#8216;cloud computing will eventually support thousands of specialized providers, with services being put together like Lego blocks&#8217; &#60;READHERE&#62;. My guess is that Mr. Bittman tried to say, that cloud computing will intrinsically tied to Saas. But is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cloudblog.roland-judas.de/2008/12/how-many-clouds-will-will-see-in-the-future/</link>
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