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	10 cloud management companies to watch As enterprise IT organizations consider how to approach the cloud - public, private, hybrid - there's no shortage of challenges to sort through. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies The Arrival of Cloud Thinking Much is being made of the "the cloud." The money it will save. The agility it will bring to computing. What is less obvious is how IT departments are actively employing cloud services today. How they are reacting to both public and private cloud initiatives. What it will mean over the next couple of years for IT decision makers and implementers. Learn More In this Issue Staying ahead of cloud complexity 5 cool tools for cloud management Cloud computing: 4 tips for regulatory compliance Amazon Web Services reports outage in the U.S. late Monday Google Music vs. Amazon vs. Apple's iCloud vs. Spotify vs. Rdio vs. ... Data center surprises Software error complicates Amazon's data center recovery Fear of change impedes cloud adoption for companies Creating a cloud SLA from diagnostic data WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc. Akamai Cloud Optimization for Amazon EC2™ The emergence of public cloud platforms and services has IT organizations thinking about which applications they want to keep in-house and which they can build within the cloud. Read more Staying ahead of cloud complexity Managing cloud infrastructure and services is similar to traditional network management - only bigger, badder and more complex. Read More 5 cool tools for cloud management Cloud management tools are as varied as cloud uses. For this test, we chose five tools that each attack cloud management from a different perspective. Read More Cloud computing: 4 tips for regulatory compliance Cloud computing seems simple in concept, and indeed, simplicity of operation, deployment and licensing are its most appealing assets. But when it comes to questions of compliance, once you scratch the surface you'll find more questions than you asked in the first place, and more to think about than ever before. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks Why you need a Cloud to Call Your Own Private cloud computing may not offer the same degree of cost savings as public cloud computing, but greater flexibility and time savings will outweigh less significant cost savings in the long term. A joint F5-IBM cloud computing solution based on proven technology and standards can help you get to the private cloud faster. Read More! Amazon Web Services reports outage in the U.S. late Monday Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud in North Virginia had connectivity issues late Monday, knocking off temporarily a number of websites and services that use Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing infrastructure. Read More Google Music vs. Amazon vs. Apple's iCloud vs. Spotify vs. Rdio vs. ... The cloud music age is upon us. After years of loading MP3s onto iPods and portable hard drives, there are now several options for streaming that same music to any device with an Internet connection, while gaining access to many more songs we don't already own. Read More Data center surprises It isn't surprising that virtualization topped the list of technologies expected to have the biggest impact on data center investments over the next two years, according to a new Network World study, but the survey turned up some surprises as well. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Tech Note: 2048-bit SSL Performance Boost security and performance of 2048-bit SSL —while meeting more stringent NIST security standards Read now! Software error complicates Amazon's data center recovery Amazon Web Services' efforts to restore service following a power outage at its Dublin data center were complicated further on Monday by an error in the EBS (Elastic Block Storage) software, the company said. Read More Fear of change impedes cloud adoption for companies It's not budgets, technology issues or strategic worries that are creating roadblocks for cloud projects in many enterprises. Instead, deep-seated fears of change and requirements for more cloud education are keeping many enterprises from moving forward. Read More Creating a cloud SLA from diagnostic data As a CSO and CIO you may be wondering why I crafted a diagnostic related to understanding your most critical web products. The original purpose of the diagnostic was to discern which applications and how applications are ported successfully to a service provider's cloud. The diagnostic determines which cloud IaaS products (storage components, network components, and virtualization machines) are needed for an application. It addresses the platform components (server/operating system and web server) in the PaaS layer. Lastly, it focuses on the SaaS software application. Read More
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