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• Private cloud shakes up traditional IT roles

  Rather than a traditional datacentre, the private cloud uses highly virtualised pools of compute, storage and network capabilities to optimize IT performance and utilization while providing the business with services that improve efficiency and agility. This offers organisations a way to circumvent the increasing complexity, inflexibility and cost of IT environments to be more competitive in the market place through greater efficiency, control, choice, quality of service and, most importantly, business agility. We need to spend more of our budgets on building new value and assets rather than spending precious dollars on, "keeping the lights on." Introducing the cloud!
  However, the journey to the private cloud can also be hazy. It is not only fundamentally changing the way technology is built, sourced, governed and consumed, but also transforming the traditional skills IT professionals need to deploy and manage private clouds.

• How big is ‘big data’?

  I came across a link to a new report from IDC called the 2010 Digital Universe Study. The report echoes what we've been telling our clients for the past year: the projections of the past few years about the growth of data significantly underestimate how much data is going to be created.
  Some highlights of the report:

• Enough data to fill 75 billion iPads

  The amount of digital information created annually will grow by a factor of 44 by 2020, according to a new EMC-sponsored study by IDC.
  The amazing growth will come as all major forms of media - voice, TV, radio and print - complete the journey from analogue to digital.

• EMC: A/NZ data growth poses challenge

  Annual digital information generation in New Zealand and Australia amounted to more than 14 billion gigabytes in 2008 according to findings by EMC.
  That’s the equivalent of five trillion digital photos.

• New executive appointments at EMC

  EMC has confirmed the appointment of former IBM southern region manager Robin Whitaker as country sales manager.
  Whitaker says he was attracted by EMC’s focus on innovation and customers, while pointing to the integration of flash-based solid state drives into its products and its new software as a service offerings, as a sign of heavy investment in its intellectual property.