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Intel® Cloud Builder Program Announced
Developed jointly between Intel and makers of cloud software, the Intel® Cloud Builder program validates and documents reference architectures and best practices for cloud service providers.

Intel VP Doug Fisher’s VMworld Keynote: Intel Accelerates Virtualization (free registration required)
Technologies supporting high availability, disaster recovery, and near-native performance help IT professionals deploy next generation capabilities with confidence, according to Fisher’s keynote.

Interview: Wilfred Yu, Open Source Virtualization Engineering Manager
Wilfred Yu, an engineering manager in the Intel Open Source Technology Center, tells about Intel’s mission in Open Source and how it helps to enable Cloud Computing.

Hadoop and Cloudera: Open Source for the Cloud
With the recent Hadoop World event hosted by Cloudera, this platform based on an Apache Foundation project has been getting quite a bit of attention.

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Video: Paul Cooper on the Moblin User Experience
Posted Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:06:41 +0000 by Dawn M. Foster
According to Jeff Orr, an analyst at ABI Research, Linux-based netbooks will be close to one-third of the 35 million netbooks shipped this year or 11 million Linux netbooks, and Intel has been working with the Moblin community and other projects to make sure that these Linux netbooks run well on Int...

How Do You Define Cloud Computing?
Posted Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:06:27 +0000 by Dawn M. Foster
I've been blogging about cloud computing fairly often lately, and it is part of our focused topic for October and November on the Open Source at Intel website; however, I haven't really spent much time talking about the various definitions of cloud computing. Jim Kaskade recently compiled a large li...

Simon Crosby from Citrix Systems on Cloud Computing
Posted Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:00:57 +0000 by Dawn M. Foster
In this video from the Intel Developer Forum (IDF), Simon Crosby, CTO, Virtualization at Citrix Systems, talks about XenServer, private vs. public cloud solutions, optimization for Intel architectures, benefits of virtualization for IT, and other virtualization technologies. You can watch more of o...