Topics ranged from new approaches to network and infrastructure sharing, cloud computing, and operations management.

WHITEHOUSE: Office of Science and Technology Policy Blog

The customers include Lionbridge, Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts (LIPA), and EmpireCLS Worldwide Chauffered Services, and the post focuses on how they use a combination of Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V server virtualization and System Center management tools to optimize their IT infrastructure and experience the benefits cloud computing has to offer.

FORBES: Real Customers, Real Private Clouds

First, HDS has what it calls an Infrastructure Cloud, which serves as a platform for data center convergence, including integrated data management.

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