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	Data centers, under strain, expand at furious pace About a third to half of all data centers will be physically expanding or leasing new space in the next two years, according to recent surveys. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Rackspace Rethink Your Managed Hosting Services Rackspace Hosting gives you the power, control and services you need, wrapped in the expert, 24x7x365 support you want. Choose from various products to fit your needs and experience the Fanatical support difference. Click to continue In this Issue Salesforce.com makes two-pronged cloud push with Force.com, Heroku 10 things we like and don't like about Check Point's R80 endpoint security product Will cloud computing make traditional vendor relationships obsolete? PlayStation Network hack will cost Sony $170M How to transform your data center for cloud computing: an expert guide Microsoft's cloud licensing changes: what you need to know Tapping the brakes on Google's self-driving car WHITE PAPER: Qwest Maximizing The Cloud To Your Needs Today's enterprise is increasingly IT-dependent and network-based, requiring agile IT infrastructure sourcing approaches to meet rapidly changing business objectives. See how a dynamic, cloud-based infrastructure can flexibly supports key business needs—and whether it's right for your organization. Read now! Salesforce.com makes two-pronged cloud push with Force.com, Heroku Salesforce.com has two cloud platforms, and it's keeping them both. Read More 10 things we like and don't like about Check Point's R80 endpoint security product Check Point's Unified Endpoint Security Management tool offers powerful single client for comprehensive endpoint security Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Mobile Technology: The Productivity Edge IT must devise a workable balance by ensuring security of mobile data without squashing worker productivity. This Mobility KnowledgeVault will walk you through four key factors to build a workable plan and highlights real-world examples of businesses that are succeeding at fulfilling the productivity promise of mobility. View now Will cloud computing make traditional vendor relationships obsolete? Network World has conducted multiple tests of cloud-based services over the past year, and our overarching conclusion is that shifting compute processes to the cloud can help companies save money and become more flexible. Read More PlayStation Network hack will cost Sony $170M Sony expects the hack of the PlayStation Network and will cost it ¥14 billion (US$170 million) this financial year, it said Monday. Read More WEBCAST: Brocade Communications Inc. Meet Tomorrow¹s Demands- Use Ethernet Fabric Discover how evolving data center architecture using Ethernet Fabrics is driving IT responsiveness and agility. A new Webinar from Brocade, featuring thought leader Gartner, discusses the growing importance of virtualization and cloud computing as enabling technologies. Learn more! How to transform your data center for cloud computing: an expert guide Learn how to prepare your data center for the transformation to cloud computing. Read More Microsoft's cloud licensing changes: what you need to know Microsoft will soon let customers use their current licenses to move workloads to the cloud. Here's how it works. Read More Tapping the brakes on Google's self-driving car The Wright brothers initiated powered flight in 1903, the first Model T rolled off Henry Ford's assembly line in 1908, and yet there is still no flying car dealership where I live. In other words, cars will drive themselves before pigs fly, just not much before. Read More
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