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Wednesday, January 23, 2013 News   |   Commentary   |   Slideshows   |   Reports   |   Videos   |   Events   |   RSS Feeds   MUST READ Cisco's Private Cloud: Pain And Profit By Charles Babcock Cisco's Private Cloud: Pain And Profit Cisco's four-year effort to reduce costs and increase agility through a private cloud deployment pays off. Cloud Standards: Bottom Up, Not Top Down IT has good reason to demand standardization in SaaS, IaaS and PaaS offerings. But what's interesting is that vendors themselves are just as interested, and in many cases, are driving standards efforts. IBM Profits On Smart Software Plays IBM's fourth-quarter 2012 results cap tenth straight year of earnings growth fueled by high-margin software sales. Amazon Speeds Analytics With High-Memory Compute Instances Amazon Web Services fills out its portfolio of workload-specific compute instances on the Elastic Compute Cloud. Oracle Offers Subscription Pricing For On-Premises IaaS Oracle will configure and charge monthly for familiar infrastructure-as-a-service appliances, rather than requiring a large upfront purchase. U.K. Data Center Colocation Business Growing U.K. companies are investing in data center colocation facilities to meet growing demand, as IT departments lean more on cloud computing. 4 Ways To Prevent 'Cloud Sprawl' Lured by easy-to-install cloud applications, individual business departments are deploying their own clouds and causing chaos for CIOs. 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