Microsoft ups the cloud ante; cloud security survival guide; Riverbed looks to speed cloud apps

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Read full story Related News: 3 most important announcements about Microsoft's Azure cloud Mitchell Ashley: Microsoft ups the cloud ante. Now will that dog hunt? Microsoft touts groundbreaking 'clip-on' for Active Directory Microsoft is introducing a directory technology built on a database and designed around a new API that provides developers with a single model for building claims-based access controls into applications that run in the cloud, internally or on devices. Microsoft touches on cloud management system Almost as a forgotten footnote, Microsoft introduce System Center "Cloud" Tuesday, providing little detail other than a name on a slide during the opening keynote of the annual PDC conference. The cloud security survival guide For companies increasingly dependent on cloud services, security challenges abound. Here's a collection of articles, columns and audio to help IT security practitioners plot the right course. Riverbed looks to speed cloud applications, storage Riverbed has a plan to accelerate applications and storage resources that are located in a cloud computing environment and delivered over the Internet to private data centers, distributed branch offices and mobile users. Cloud won't do for critical applications, SAP says SAP does not expect mission-critical applications to move to the cloud in the near future, the company's CTO says. HP expands high performance computing infrastructure HP just launched new servers, storage, software and networking that include the HP ProLiant G6 blade along with 'skinless' server technology, optimized for Web 2.0, cloud and high-performance computing environments. Elastra offers a tool to build public-private clouds Elastra has announced the availability of its Cloud Server platform, which lets enterprises build public-private computing clouds. November giveaways Cisco Subnet is giving away free books on VMware vSphere security. 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