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Forget Public Cloud or Private Cloud, It's All About Hyper-Hybrid

As organizations increasingly adopt cloud offerings for critical business operations from public and private providers, connecting them all back to the core of the business is becoming a challenge involving complicated integration, orchestration and rules management.

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Web App Lets Enterprise Set Security, Sharing for Google Apps Users

A new security tool lets enterprise IT groups set access and share policies for employees, including mobile users, who are working with the online Google Apps suite.

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Google "Drive" Could Step on Cloud Partners' Toes

Google is preparing to launch a long-rumored cloud storage service that tramples a bit on products and services offered by Google partners. A Wall Street Journal report citing "people familiar with the matter" says the new "Drive" service will be launched by Google in the coming weeks or months. What does that mean for other companies that Google works closely with?

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Google to Launch Cloud Storage 'Drive' Soon - Reports

Google is rumoured to be on the verge of launching a new cloud-based storage product, which has been described as the search giant's answer to Dropbox.

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Cloudscaling to Offer OpenStack Private Cloud Platform

The software will be the first product offered by Cloudscaling, which is a services company

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Oracle Buying Taleo for US$1.9 Billion in Direct Hit At SAP

The move follows SAP's recent move to purchase cloud HCM (human capital management) vendor SuccessFactors

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Salesforce.Com Shakes Up Standard Support Plan Features

But an improved self-service experience is on the way, Salesforce.com pledges

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Why One Insurance Company Ditched Its Own Hardware- for a Cloud -Based SAN

Why do some enterprise managers decide to brave their way into the new and unknown of cloud-based services? Sometimes it's simply because the old technology just isn't working out that well anymore.

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VMware Makes it Easier to Wholesale Clouds

VMware has introduced a new software platform that makes it easier for service providers to wholesale their cloud-services infrastructure to other providers.

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FBI Declares Cloud Vendors Must Meet CJIS Security Rules

The FBI Tuesday reaffirmed its rule that all cloud products sold to to U.S. law enforcement agencies must comply with the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS) security requirements.

 
Virtualization and cloud are driving new requirements for data center network performance, VM support, automation and simplified orchestration. This paper outlines Extreme Networks® open fabric approach to high speed, low latency networks for modern data centers.
On March 14, IBM announced "Smarter Commerce", a strategic initiative that addresses the surging market for Commerce 2.0 solutions that take advantage of the convergence of a number of disruptive software and hardware technologies.
Enterprise storage has undergone many changes in recent years - with converged storage and infrastructure 2.0 paving the way for reduced IT infrastructure costs and greater performance. This report discusses the latest trends that are setting the stage for the next era of computing. Learn about the new infrastructure and storage trends that are changing the way business storage works today.
In most companies, the needs of the business are outpacing what IT can deliver. Technology is the foundation and enabler of business innovation, but developing and implementing new solutions is resource-intensive. Integrating and optimizing islands of IT is complex, time-consuming and costly.

However, implementing a private cloud can be complex and daunting. HP's solution, CloudSystem Matrix, helps you build a turnkey private cloud environment to deliver the benefits of the cloud to your business users. Read now to find out how the HP CloudSystem Matrix can enable you to move quickly to a private cloud model.
Cloud computing continues to grow in popularity among the IT industry. And more businesses are advertising that they are the front runner for providing the best cloud services. However, in this race to remain top dog, IT pros remain unsure of what cloud computing is and the benefits it can bring to their organization.
This white paper examines IT management challenges from a fundamental and system standpoint. In addition, it introduces the concept of a service-oriented and automated approach to IT management.
Join guest speaker, Rohit Mehra, IDC Director of Enterprise Communications Infrastructure, to explore current trends, discuss best practices for optimizing Data Center and enterprise campus network infrastructures for the Cloud, and identify ways to better allocate network resources, reduce operating costs and improve application performance.
VMware recently announced VMware vFabric™ Data Director, a new database deployment and operations platform that enables enterprise IT organizations to offer database as a private cloud service. Built on top of VMware vSphere 5, vFabric Data Director enables IT organizations to ontrol database sprawl through automation and consistent policy enforcement and accelerate application development cycles with self-service database management. Attend this webcast to learn how vFabric Data Director can help you build database-as-a-service in your datacenter.
InfoWorld contributing editor and consultant David Linthicum offers expert advice about choosing services to outsource to the public cloud providers, cloud data security and identity, integrating public cloud services, and how to avoid provider lock-in.
In this exclusive Virtual Briefing Center session from Microsoft and IDG, you'll discover how deploying Windows 7 Enterprise now will help you take advantage of this new environment. Learn through a series of videos, audio webinars and rich downloadable resources how to power today's flexible workstyles with Windows 7 Enterprise.
Cloud deployments are playing a critical role in propelling innovation for many companies. At the same time security has become the #1 one of the top concerns for IT and business leaders as they migrate into the cloud. In this webinar, learn from Accenture discusses how to recast the cloud as a "fresh chance to rethink your approach to security."
As greater numbers of datacenter servers transition from the physical to the virtual world, the components of virtualization success come to the fore. What scores of organizations have discovered is that success is derived from an optimal pairing of the right software platform with the right hardware platform.
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