Cloud security: The good, bad and ugly; Crafting a UC strategy

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	Cloud security: The good, bad and ugly While vendors work to address enterprise concerns about cloud computing security, experts warn there's no easy fix. Meanwhile, cloud service outages and criminals operating in the cloud threaten enterprise acceptance of the utility computing model. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AccelOps, Inc. How IT Accelerates Business AccelOps Integrated Monitoring: Datacenter, VMware & Cloud Control VM resources, reduce complexity, expedite root-cause, lower MTTR and get service-oriented. AccelOps offers end-to-end visibility across service, performance, availability, security and change management; cross-correlating physical / virtual environments. Discover our depth, breadth & value. Obtain a "Pragmatic IT Service Mgmt." guide by EMA. In this Issue Crafting a UC strategy EMC's Gelsinger shares storage federation vision Cray building petascale supercomputer for Los Alamos Verizon, IBM team on cloud-based storage Pentagon Seeks Big Penalties for Billing Snafus IT's 'Love Affair' With Windows XP Ending Many ethical answers How we tested the cloud services WHITE PAPER: Avocent Four tools for successful power reduction. Discover how you can reduce energy consumption in the data center and on the desktop for significant cost savings. This independent report outlines the best approaches to developing, deploying and managing an effective power management solution, as well as tools for successful power reduction. Read now! Crafting a UC strategy If you have been putting off crafting your unified communications strategy, we don't blame you. The more you know, the more you realize how much you don't know. Read More EMC's Gelsinger shares storage federation vision Pat Gelsinger made headlines in September 2009 when he left Intel to join EMC as president and COO of information infrastructure products, a group that includes the company's information storage and information security businesses. Now, Gelsinger -- who was Intel's first chief technology officer and led both the desktop products group and the digital enterprise group during his career at the chip maker -- is making waves again. Read More WHITE PAPER: Avent Managing the Virtual Data Center An exclusive survey by IDG Research reveals that virtualization is significantly upping the data center management challenges, despite all the benefits. While network security tops the list of challenges, several others emerge prominently, goading IT management to seek new management solutions in order to maintain high service levels. Learn More Cray building petascale supercomputer for Los Alamos Cray is building one of the world's fastest supercomputers at Los Alamos National Lab to help secure the nation's nuclear stockpile. Read More Verizon, IBM team on cloud-based storage Verizon Business and IBM are now offering a joint service aimed at helping large businesses safely store large chunks of data within the Verizon cloud. Read More WHITE PAPER: Qualys IT Policy Compliance for Dummies This book is a quick guide to understanding IT policy compliance. It surveys the best steps for preparing your organization's IT operations to comply with laws and regulations - and how to prove compliance to an auditor. Click here! Pentagon Seeks Big Penalties for Billing Snafus The U.S. Department of Defense wants to crack down on billing errors caused by long-standing "deficiencies" in contractors' IT systems. Read More IT's 'Love Affair' With Windows XP Ending IT managers are finally releasing their grip on Windows XP and warming up to Windows 7, a new survey shows. Read More Many ethical answers A couple of weeks ago Mark Gibbs offered seven ethical questions and you, dear readers, did not disappoint. Read More How we tested the cloud services We used our facility in our hosted network operations center at n|Frame in Indianapolis to connect with each competitor's cloud. We used a Vyatta router/VPN virtual machine appliance to connect with each vendor to test their skills in connecting non-Cisco equipment. Read More
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