IT increasingly bypassed on cloud adoption

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	IT increasingly bypassed on cloud adoption IT departments, long criticized as being too slow in offering new technologies and services, may be facing a grassroots rebellion in many companies over cloud services. Read More WHITE PAPER: Belden Wire Going Green With Physical Layer Components This white paper focuses on physical-layer design and discusses how advanced air-flow management technologies, high-performance cabling and connectivity, and IP-enabled network architecture can play an important role in bringing the green data center vision to fruition. Read More In this Issue No 'Joni Mitchell clouds' here ... OK, just one NYSE launches VMware-based cloud for financial firms Obama's CTO eyes cloud, mobile options Private clouds hold a wide lead over public clouds among IT pros polled Steve Jobs to debut iCloud, tout iOS 5 and Lion next week Security still a concern for those considering cloud move Steve Ballmer: Office 365 to launch in June Managing the cloud Oracle proposes OpenOffice.org to Apache Incubator Smartphone apps will boost enterprise productivity by 2015 WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel Storage technologies for server virtualization When deployed together, highly virtualized HP 3PAR Utility Storage, powered by Intel® Xeon® processors, and server virtualization from VMware deployed on HP server blades deliver a compelling utility computing solution. Read now No 'Joni Mitchell clouds' here ... OK, just one A colleague recently sent around this quote from a university CTO he interviewed for an upcoming article: "We're not building some generic Joni Mitchell cloud. The thing we're trying to do is build a cloud that is really infrastructure and services, not some vanilla, virtualized blah, blah, blah." No generic Joni Mitchell cloud for these guys; no sir, no way. Read More NYSE launches VMware-based cloud for financial firms NYSE promises robust security, performance in cloud for financial industry. Read More Obama's CTO eyes cloud, mobile options Aneesh Chopra, the first U.S. CTO, tells InfoWorld about his ambitious plans to modernize IT, address Internet privacy, and increase transparency. 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 Private clouds hold a wide lead over public clouds among IT pros polled Public clouds have a way to go if they want to be the top choice of businesses looking to put resources in a shared, centralized computing environment, according to a poll of 1,200 IT professionals. Read More Steve Jobs to debut iCloud, tout iOS 5 and Lion next week Apple CEO Steve Jobs will take the stage at the company's developer conference next week to introduce iCloud -- Apple's new cloud service -- and the next version of its mobile operating system, iOS 5. Read More Security still a concern for those considering cloud move Security concerns continue to be a key issue for organizations using or considering cloud-based services. Read More WHITE PAPER: Qwest Qwest Cloud-Based Services: On-Demand Access to IT Resources More and more IT leaders are turning to outsourced, cloud computing services to fulfill their growing technology needs—and do more with less. See how you can grow your business with on-demand, scalable applications and cloud-computing infrastructure—and pay only for what you need. Read now! Steve Ballmer: Office 365 to launch in June Steve Ballmer said Microsoft's cloud productivity service will launch next month. Read More Managing the cloud As mentioned in our last newsletter, IT organizations are beginning to acquire a wide range of traditional IT applications from SaaS providers. This newsletter will discuss one of the challenges that this new wave of SaaS-based applications is targeting: managing other cloud based applications. Read More Oracle proposes OpenOffice.org to Apache Incubator In what may not be the best-kept secret, Oracle has finally spilled the beans: It's proposing OpenOffice.org as a Apache Incubator project — and not to The Document Foundation. Read More Smartphone apps will boost enterprise productivity by 2015 Smartphones and tablets are already starting to flood the enterprise and this trend is expected to accelerate rapidly over the next four years. Enterprises expect mobile apps to accomplish some big goals, including reducing paper in the office. Read More
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