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	Ease your pain with identity management as a service As cloud computing becomes mainstream, it's possible to move almost any type of traditional IT service to the cloud. Identropy offers identity and access management as a service in a private cloud. With Identropy's pre-configured, pre-architected solution, it's possible to get a solution up and running very quickly and at a fraction of the cost of a traditional custom-developed IAM solution. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: China Telecom Americas Five of a Kind in Mainland China? You Win! Five or more sites in Mainland China? Reach out to Hong Kong, Singapore, Canada or the U.S. for less! Deal yourself a winning hand with all your voice, video, and data traffic on a global Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Virtual Private Network from China Telecom Americas. Complete your order before July 31, 2011! In this Issue Cloud computing presents new challenges for management software Guide to cloud management software Are You Making Your Data Centers Cloud-Friendly? The case for using hosted/cloud VoIP and UC The 10 worst cloud outages (and what we can learn from them) Cloud Computing's Present and Future: What You Need to Know WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Case Study - Psomas As a high-growth firm, Psomas needed to accelerate application performance to accommodate a changing set of demands from the business as well as employees. With Riverbed Steelhead products deployed worldwide, their employees can now share work and leverage resources wherever they happen to be. Read now! Cloud computing presents new challenges for management software The cloud is revolutionizing networking, and this overhaul presents enormous challenges for IT managers who are used to being able to see, monitor and control their networks and systems. Read More Guide to cloud management software When it comes to cloud computing, management software can no longer be an afterthought – it has to be a part of the implementation, part of the very decision on how best to integrate cloud capabilities into your IT architecture. This guide highlights key points to consider. Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Network Configuration & Change Management for Dummies Read this and learn the NCCM "basics," key challenges associated with NCCM, the IT and business benefits of automating NCCM, and the top 10 reasons why automated NCCM creates value, reduces business risk, and can help ensure business goals are met. Read now Are You Making Your Data Centers Cloud-Friendly? Data center construction is growing ever more complex and expensive as data center facilities expand to meet enterprises' seemingly limitless computing needs. Read More The case for using hosted/cloud VoIP and UC In this newsletter, we're wrapping up (for the moment) our discussion of why moving VoIP and UC services into the cloud could be a great choice for you. In particular, our excerpts from the complimentary "2011 Sourcebook for VoIP and UC Services" by Delphi and Webtorials continue, and we encourage you to download the full version (45 pages) to get all of the details. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Exceptional Application Experience To improve and ensure the performance and availability of business-critical web applications, organizations need to be able to see and understand the actual user experience. This paper examines the five essentials of application performance monitoring. Learn More The 10 worst cloud outages (and what we can learn from them) Sending your IT business to the cloud comes with risk, as those affected by these 10 colossal cloud outages can attest. Read More Cloud Computing's Present and Future: What You Need to Know I had the opportunity to participate in two conferences over the past couple of weeks, and got what are essentially headlines ripped from today's newspapers about the state of cloud computing in the real world as well as a figurative text message from the future of cloud computing. Read More
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