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	How cloud computing will change IT: 6 new predictions IT is in a time of disruptive transition, caused by the rise of cloud computing. CIOs are in the midst of a maelstrom, and--like Ulysses, the fabled hero from Homer's Odyssey--are torn between the Scylla of established IT practices and the Charybdis of the future, both of which loom dangerously and portend trouble. Read More WHITE PAPER: Emerson Network Power Taking the Enterprise Data Center into the Cloud Get a detailed overview of cloud computing technology— common types of architectures and services and perceived risks impacting widespread adoption. Learn best practices for optimizing critical systems for cloud deployment in existing facilities and see how next-generation technologies forge a path toward an integrated DCIM approach. Learn More In this Issue CIOs lack adequate cloud computing knowledge Amazon competition to highlight cloud usage among startups Telesphere launches cloud videoconferencing CumuLogic offers private PaaS cloud software Cloud CRM: The politics of data ownership and control CA buys Watchmouse for cloud monitoring Nebula provides a "cloud-in-a-box" Novell to close Vibe Cloud collaboration suite EMC launches storage management software Startup helps SaaS vendors boost sales, customer experience SAP co-CEO McDermott talks up HANA, mobility and SaaS 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! CIOs lack adequate cloud computing knowledge Traditional IT outsourcing customers are struggling with cloud computing, according to IT service providers and outsourcing advisers surveyed by KPMG Sourcing Advisory. IT service providers and advisers rated their IT executive customers' facility with various aspects of cloud computing on a scale of one to five, where one represented "very unskilled" and five represented "very skilled." IT executives earned embarrassing scores from their providers and advisors: None garnered even a middling score of three. Read More Amazon competition to highlight cloud usage among startups Amazon Web Services has opened the fifth annual AWS Start-Up Challenge, a contest that aims to recognize innovative uses of its cloud computing platform. Read More Telesphere launches cloud videoconferencing Telesphere, a nationwide managed cloud communications provider for businesses, recently announced commercial availability of VideoConnect as a cloud-based videoconferencing and collaboration service. Read More 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 CumuLogic offers private PaaS cloud software CumuLogic is releasing a beta version of software that lets enterprises build a private platform-as-a-service cloud for running Java applications. Read More Cloud CRM: The politics of data ownership and control In CRM systems, you've got to be really sensitive to the politics of ownership and control. The cloud doesn't change that any. Here's a look at some general rules that apply to nearly any B2B marketing & sales company. Read More CA buys Watchmouse for cloud monitoring CA Technologies is purchasing WatchMouse, a maker of SaaS-based tools for monitoring mobile and on-demand applications. Terms were not disclosed. 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 Nebula provides a "cloud-in-a-box" Under the recently-completed Vivek Kundra era, the U.S. federal government became an aggressive proponent of cloud computing. Much of this was pure folly leading to wasteful IT assessments and check-box planning, but the feds did come up with a few model cloud computing projects. One of these, NASA Nebula, was a very successful cloud computing platform built on Open Source and used to support research and scientific computing requirements at NASA Ames. Read More Novell to close Vibe Cloud collaboration suite Novell has decided to shut down its Web-hosted Vibe Cloud enterprise social collaboration suite, which bombed with customers although the market is hot for competing products. Read More EMC launches storage management software EMC recently launched a new storage management package for cloud computing called ProSphere to replace its aging ControlCenter software and allow more flexible management for cloud computing environments. Read More Startup helps SaaS vendors boost sales, customer experience A startup called Totango is hoping to make it big by solving the business problems of fellow SaaS (software-as-a-service) vendors, not end users. Read More SAP co-CEO McDermott talks up HANA, mobility and SaaS SAP has seen software sales rebound steadily after a dip during the global recession, and is hoping to supercharge its business with forays into in-memory computing, SaaS (software as a service) and mobile applications, a business it entered with last year's acquisition of Sybase. Read More
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