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	New job for mainframes: Hosting private clouds Mention cloud computing to a mainframe professional, and he's likely to roll his eyes. Cloud is just a much-hyped new name for what mainframes have done for years, he'll say. Read More WEBCAST: Dell Best Practices for Virtualizing Your IT Environment In this Webcast you will learn how to give your business a strategic advantage through virtualization and how Microsoft Server 2008 Release 2 with Hyper V and Microsoft System Center, combined with Dell server and storage hardware can make your business both more efficient and more agile. View Now! In this Issue Extending the private cloud: 5 keys to virtualization in a global environment Who is accountable for cloud storage? You are. Microsoft BPOS customers suffer another cloud email outage The 5 biggest IT security mistakes Rackspace's cloud going all OpenStack EMC revenue grows on strength of big data, VMware VMware rolls out vSphere enhancements, new storage products DotNetNuke gets fresh user interface Logitech looks to cloud and mobile video meetings 8x8 launches cloud-based videoconferencing WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc. Leveraging Cloud Security to Weather Threatening Storms This paper assesses the current cyber threat environment and discusses the use of distributed cloud services as an effective means to protect against evolving, modern day IT threats. It takes a close look at DDoS defense in particular. Read now Extending the private cloud: 5 keys to virtualization in a global environment CIOs tasked with managing virtual servers across a global environment have to clear some hurdles to effectively optimize their infrastructure. Read More Who is accountable for cloud storage? You are. Choosing a cloud storage provider is more difficult than one thinks, complicated by the issues of accountability and responsibility for data latency, availability, corruption and in the most extreme circumstances, data loss. Read More Microsoft BPOS customers suffer another cloud email outage Microsoft's "old" cloud is showing its age, with an email outage affecting customers for the second time in a month. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Fine-Tune Your IT Performance Learn how to bridge the gap between application performance management solutions that don't understand the underlying network and network management products that don't know how to map network traffic to applications. Learn more! The 5 biggest IT security mistakes Like cleaning the windows, IT security can be a thankless task because they only notice when you don't do it. But to get the job done in the era of virtualization, smartphones and cloud computing, you've got to avoid technical and political mistakes. In particular, here are five security mistakes to avoid. Read More Rackspace's cloud going all OpenStack Rackspace is planning to deploy the open source OpenStack software across its entire cloud infrastructure. Read More EMC revenue grows on strength of big data, VMware Increasing customer demand for big data technologies and cloud computing brought record financial results at EMC in the second quarter. 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 VMware rolls out vSphere enhancements, new storage products VMware announced enhancements last week to its VMware vSphere, new versions of vShield 5, vCenter Site Recovery Manager and vCloud Director and a new vSphere Storage Appliance. Read More DotNetNuke gets fresh user interface Keeping up with the fiercely competitive market for open-source Web content management (WCM) systems, DotNetNuke has simplified the user interface of its namesake WCM product and added new bits for connecting to the cloud and to Microsoft SharePoint, the company announced Monday. Read More Logitech looks to cloud and mobile video meetings Logitech's LifeSize division is embracing the cloud in a bid to extend videoconferencing's reach, announcing new services and the acquisition of a small mobile video company called Mirial. Read More 8x8 launches cloud-based videoconferencing Service provider 8x8 has launched a new cloud-based videoconferencing service based on 8x8's voice and video IP service platform together with Polycom's UC Intelligent Core software platform. The 8x8 Virtual Room service is available in three tiers supporting low, standard and high definition telepresence video. Read More
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