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Content management vendor Vignette, it turns out, is placing a major bet on "beta-SaaS." The company says that ahead of the next major release of their flagship Vignette Content Management offering, beta customers will be able to take advantage of something called the Vignette Virtual Environment (VVE) Program (known in Austin as "the sandbox"). The company says that VVE will provides beta testers with virtualized instances of V-next running on a full technology stack, with a great deal of infrastructure already configured, so that testers can hit the ground running. Read more...... details >>>

HP's 10-year alliance with Alcatel-Lucent is the latest move by the tech giant in its growing competition with Cisco Systems in the data center space. Cisco's move into the data center put a strain on its partnership with HP, which has been looking to build up its own networking capabilities through its ProCurve business. The Alcatel-Lucent alliance will add to what HP can do in networking. It also will help HP build up its cloud computing capabilities, which will let HP keep in stride with such vendors as IBM and Cisco in that space. Read more...... details >>>

Cloud computing might now officially be the hottest trend in enterprise computing, thanks in no small part to the Obama administration's public endorsements. But many federal chief information officers still lack a clear picture of the security and management challenges that come with moving data, applications and business processes into the information technology ether. Read more... details >>>