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	Microsoft's Office 365 not ready to leave beta, analyst says Microsoft's Office 365 cloud service is likely on the verge of exiting beta and entering general availability. CEO Steve Ballmer revealed that the service will launch this month and will be giving a speech about the service's future on June 28. But is Office 365 really ready to ditch the "beta" tag? Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Benefits of an ITIL Help Desk in the Cloud You can implement help desk processes based on ITIL easily with reduced up-front costs and automatic upgrades. Used by more than 72,500 companies worldwide, the Force.com platform is the most widely used Cloud platform in the world. Read More In this Issue Survey finds many disappointed in virtualization, cloud computing More tales from the cloud Google's fast Web protocol gains a little speed IBM rolls out free cloud software development tool VoIP company sues Apple over iCloud name Am I raining on the cloud? Eclipse Foundation sees growing developer interest for cloud, mobile IBM building security into cloud fabric WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper Corporation NEW Diskeeper 2011 Pro Premier Edition Diskeeper 2011 Pro Premier edition provides essential performance and efficiency increases for power workstation users as well as all the features of the Professional edition. Learn more! Survey finds many disappointed in virtualization, cloud computing Too often, organizations aren't getting as much out of virtualization and hybrid cloud computing as they first thought they would, according to a Symantec survey of 3,700 information technology managers in 35 countries. Read More More tales from the cloud For companies considering cloud computing, the biggest monkey wrench in the works tends to be security. IT and business leaders alike worry about security concerns such as the protection of sensitive data, access control and identity management, regulatory compliance, the complexities of multitenancy, and how to determine best practices despite a lack of mature standards in the industry. Read More Google's fast Web protocol gains a little speed Google's SPDY protocol makes 10% to 20% faster Web downloads, says Strangeloop. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Cloud ready business intelligence Learn how Oracle BI's web services based SOA architecture, metadata based design, standards based security integration, common federated access to multiple data sources and common systems management capabilities make it a good fit for both cloud and non cloud type deployments. Read Now IBM rolls out free cloud software development tool IBM this week announced a cloud-based collaborative software development tool that's being offered free to students now for academic use only but is expected to become a commercial service at some point in the future. Read More VoIP company sues Apple over iCloud name An Arizona provider of VoIP services is suing Apple for trademark infringement over the latter's use of the name iCloud for its new online storage service. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Cloud Computing Drives Improvements in IT Service Delivery IDC OPINION Cloud computing promotes a new dialogue between business and IT decision makers allowing them to define business service requirements first and then decide how to balance the use of shared, internal virtualized IT resources and external public services cost-effectively. Read now Am I raining on the cloud? Not too long ago, I attended a Google seminar on AdWords, Google's auction-based system for keywords to get you up at the top of their search results. The organization leading the seminar first did a "Google 101" before the AdWords portion of the seminar. This included a quick overview of Google Apps, touted as free while you have to pay for Microsoft Office. Read More Eclipse Foundation sees growing developer interest for cloud, mobile Survey from open source tools group gauges application development trends. Read More IBM building security into cloud fabric IBM executives said this week that the company is looking to many of its existing tools, from the Tivoli management system to Cognos business intelligence software, to secure private and IBM-hosted hybrid clouds as customers migrate to these new computing setups. Read More
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