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If you ever have had doubts about the accuracy of all of those predictions about the future of computing being up in the clouds, consider this: according to a new report from IDC, in 2010 the amount of all the digital information produced on Earth will grow to 1.2 zettabytes, a convenient unit of data measurement that equals a staggering 1.2 trillion gigabytes of information. The same report estimates that in 2009, nearly 35 percent of the digital information created could not be stored, because there simply was not enough storage media available on the planet. If that figure were applied to the estimated amount of 2010 data, that means that 420 billion gigabytes of data will never get permanently stored.

Late last week, it was noted that the beta release of Red Hat Linux Enterprise 6 would no longer include support for the Xen hypervisor. Instead, Red Hat is throwing all of its virtualization efforts on KVM moving forward. This raised a few eyebrows in the virtualization community, and led some pundits to question the future of Xen without Red Hat. In two words, the Xen response to date has been "settle down." Well, perhaps with a little more detail...