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Major players form cloud coalition, challenge traditional hardware vendors
This week: EMC, Cisco and VMware unite to push for transition to private cloud; IBM offers SOA test and dev for the cloud. (ARTICLE)

Virtualization firm pushes high-performance computing towards the cloud
ScaleMP has made a business of turning standard servers into supercomputers. Will increased elasticity and on-demand functionality make high-performance computing cloud-capable? (ARTICLE)

Financial services group and consumer health giant venture into cloud
Now that Web applications and test and dev are proven uses for cloud computing, financial businesses and pharmaceutical research companies are the next likely cloud adopters. (ARTICLE)

RightScale users sound off on cloud pros and cons
Cloud users call out for more monitoring and alerting tools and warn new users to plan for outages; RightScale shares its roadmap. (ARTICLE)

L.A. bets on cloud computing with Google Apps despite financial woes
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