First look at Windows Azure

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	First look at Windows Azure There's "the cloud" and then there's Windows Azure. We tested the available production-level features in Microsoft's platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering, and found that Azure is similar in many ways to what already exists in the cloud sky. But there are some key differences. Azure is homogeneously Windows-based. And big chunks of Azure are still in beta or "customer technology preview." Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle SOA Maturity Model: Guiding and Accelerating SOA Success This paper outlines the Oracle SOA Maturity Model and explains how the model is used to accelerate SOA adoption by identifying specific capabilities that are either completely lacking or which are lagging with respect to the other capabilities necessary for successful SOA adoption. Learn more. In this Issue Azure review: Looks juicy but not yet fully cooked 12 ways the cloud changes everything Salesforce.com's Benioff pushes 'social enterprises' A new security architecture for the cloud Tarpipe: Social media meets workflow Atlanta hospital looks to cloud for email fix Why the Windows 8 App Store is good news for IT Cloud storage providers need sharper billing metrics Opscode serves up cloud infrastructure automation appliance Build a cloud service review board RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: NetApp Make your move to the cloud with NetApp Transform the promise of cloud computing into real business results. Whether building a private cloud or buying cloud services, learn why companies choose NetApp storage and how they've accelerated time to market, reduced storage management costs, and achieved higher operational efficiencies. Click to continue Azure review: Looks juicy but not yet fully cooked Our review of Windows Azure was an intense experience. We'd waited and waited, and waited to review Azure after it was announced. Then more stuff was announced. We were trying to pin what Azure was. We eventually decided that cloud and Azure were really different things. While Microsoft was waiting and busily roadmapping the product, the industry shaped what Azure has become, which is a hybrid model of PaaS, developer platform, and dashes of IaaS. Read More 12 ways the cloud changes everything Despite fears over reliability and security, enterprises are slowly but steadily moving their applications to the cloud, and the migration is going to change those companies in profound ways. Read More Salesforce.com's Benioff pushes 'social enterprises' Salesforce.com is ready to help customers turn their businesses into "social enterprises," CEO Marc Benioff said during the on-demand software vendor's Cloudforce event in Boston. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks Hardware Load Balancing A comprehensive F5 solution readies application infrastructure for a successful implementation of the re-engineered Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Learn More! A new security architecture for the cloud The Open Group's Security for the Cloud and SOA Project publishes "An Architectural View of Security for Cloud." Read More Tarpipe: Social media meets workflow When you're trying to maximize your social media efforts, one of the big challenges is to minimize the amount of labor involved in keeping all of the services you're driving updated. Read More Atlanta hospital looks to cloud for email fix An Atlanta hospital switches to Microsoft Exchange in the cloud to update an email service that had become a headache for the medical staff and the IT team. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Mobility KnowledgeVault The resources in this Mobility KnowledgeVault provide expert guidance, peer advice, survey results and best practices to help you protect your mobile infrastructure. From determining a policy for employee-owned devices and data encryption to supporting the six major mobile operating systems, securing mobile devices and data is a top priority. View now Why the Windows 8 App Store is good news for IT Slowly, Microsoft is opening the kimono on Windows 8, revealing features that, up to now, seem consumer-oriented. There are more reportedly on the way, and the one that has my interest is the rumored App Store. Read More Cloud storage providers need sharper billing metrics Cloud storage providers should bill by disk usage, not I/O, a group of Usenix researchers contends. Read More Opscode serves up cloud infrastructure automation appliance By now many enterprise IT managers have come to this stark realization: If they don't become more like a cloud services provider internally, they'll lose critical application developers to the cloud. Read More Build a cloud service review board Like it or not, the arrival of cloud means IT isn't the only game in town anymore. It is increasingly easy for corporate denizens to simply bypass IT to get what they want. The deceit? They simply don't tell you about the services acquired. Read More
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