Microsoft will give year warning before changing cloud services

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	Microsoft will give 1-year warning before killing or changing cloud services Microsoft will give cloud customers a minimum of 12 months notification before discontinuing online services, or making any "disruptive" changes or upgrades, in an effort to standardize the support lifecycle for cloud-based software. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Extreme Networks From Physical to Virtual to the Cloud The migration from a dedicated infrastructure to a shared and outsourced cloud infrastructure is not a one-size-fits-all proposition. With Extreme Networks "Four Pillars" strategy, Enterprises and Hosting Centers of any scale can approach change in a logical and affordable, stepwise fashion. Read More In this Issue Obama turns attention to supercomputing Intel gives away FCOE to simplify data centers Deep dive: Flat networks are the future Intel to invest $100M in U.S. university research IBM to build Asia's largest cloud computing center Virtela extends WAN optimization service to resources in public clouds Cloud consulting firm hopes lightning can strike twice Old-school tech steps to the forefront in Egypt WEBCAST: Riverbed Accelerating Your Virtual Environment with WAN Optimization Which applications in your virtual environment do you want to accelerate the most? This Webcast surveys the applications that suffer the most from latency and discusses the 3 root causes of poor wide-area application performance. See how you can realize dramatic improvements in replication in virtual machines. Learn More! Obama turns attention to supercomputing President Barack Obama's State of the Union Speech was so technology-focused that it buoyed expectations that U.S. investment in IT, particularly supercomputing, will survive his other plan to freeze domestic spending for five years. Read More Intel gives away FCOE to simplify data centers Intel has eased the migration to a single network infrastructure throughout data centers by introducing Open FCOE, a free software stack for Fibre Channel Over Ethernet. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed 5 Key Principles to Redesign IT Infrastructure Wide Area Data Services can bring the distributed enterprise closer together. Read this paper to learn the 5 key principles you can leverage to redesign an environment of any size and provide better support for distributed employees and improved business continuity during a disaster. Read now! Deep dive: Flat networks are the future A large flat layer 2 network is the key to a new unified fabric data center. The idea is that everything in the data center - servers, appliances and storage - should be part of one big flat layer 2 structure. Read More Intel to invest $100M in U.S. university research Intel announced today that it's set to invest $100 million over the next five years into U.S. university research. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: St. Bernard, now doing business as EdgeWave Spend Less on Web Security, Earn $15 GC iPrism Web Security offers award-winning protection at the perimeter, while it helps enforce your AUP. And our TCO is the lowest on the market - proven in an independent study. We'll try to match the cost of your current solution, or any competitive offer you have. You'll earn cash just for checking us out. Click here for the EdgeWave Bid Desk. IBM to build Asia's largest cloud computing center IBM and the China-based Range Technology will build a cloud computing data center near Beijing that the companies claim will be Asia's largest by floor space. Read More Virtela extends WAN optimization service to resources in public clouds Virtela has upgraded its WAN acceleration service to support customer data centers located in public clouds, so businesses that outsource their resources to service providers can outsource their WAN acceleration, too. Read More Cloud consulting firm hopes lightning can strike twice Cloud consulting start-up CloudTP reunites colleagues from Cambridge Technology Partners, including co-founder Chris Greendale. Read More Old-school tech steps to the forefront in Egypt Necessity proves the mettle of yesteryear's inventionsAs both political unrest and government attempts to block Internet access continue vigorously today in Egypt, protesters are turning to old-school technologies - fax machines, ham radios and dialup modems - in their attempts to circumvent the censorship. From a BBC report: Read More
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