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	Microsoft: We make more money on cloud-based Exchange than legacy email Microsoft claims it earns more money per user from cloud-based Exchange email accounts than it does selling the legacy version of Exchange Server most businesses deploy today. Read More 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 In this Issue Sprint to launch cloud services this fall IT career choices: Startup or established company? CloudSwing allows you to assemble open-source cloud stacks Encrypting data in the cloud brings win for Texas Amazon launches free Kindle cloud reader app for Web browsers 10 cloud management companies to watch Skytap automates cloud deployments Google Apps catapult BI-LO Supermarkets to the cloud When a cloud service vanishes: How to protect your data WHITE PAPER: BMC Three Steps to Effective Cloud Planning & Design Before you build your cloud, there are many considerations. Are there security requirements? Compliance rules? Will you use public cloud resources as well? Learn more about how to plan a cloud effectively – from defining requirements to identifying the costs - in this compelling white paper from BMC Software. Read More Today Sprint to launch cloud services this fall Sprint will offer cloud services to all sizes of businesses in the fourth quarter, a Sprint executive said. Read More IT career choices: Startup or established company? Stability trumps all other workplace attributes, according to a poll of IT professionals -- many of whom are, presumably, on the lookout for new job opportunities. Read More CloudSwing allows you to assemble open-source cloud stacks Developers and enterprise IT shops will soon have another option for PaaS (platform as a service) in the form of CloudSwing, an upcoming offering from OpenLogic that builds on its core business of providing technical support for open-source software. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Integrated Service Management and Cloud Computing Today, success demands agility. If your IT staff spends all of their time worrying about security, uptime and capacity problems, they won't be working with you to drive innovation. Read now Encrypting data in the cloud brings win for Texas For his work on the foundations of a new way of encrypting data, Brent Waters from the University of Texas in Austin has been elected as one of this year's Microsoft Research Faculty Fellows. Read More Amazon launches free Kindle cloud reader app for Web browsers Amazon introduced the free Kindle Cloud Reader application, which allows users to access Kindle books instantly from a Web browser without needing to download the book first. Read More 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: Akamai Technologies, Inc. A Perspective from the Edge of the Cloud Akamai Chief Scientist and co-Founder Tom Leighton explores the major forces and technology layers driving the cloud computing movement, the types of architectural approaches emerging and an assessment of the challenges that must be overcome for cloud computing to broadly succeed. Read now Skytap automates cloud deployments Skytap, a provider of cloud automation software, this week unveiled orchestration and configuration products designed to enable enterprises to easily create virtual environments in the cloud. Read More Google Apps catapult BI-LO Supermarkets to the cloud A good indicator that you're in need of a new email system is when your entire executive team offers to be part of a pilot group for a new platform. Read More When a cloud service vanishes: How to protect your data More and more, we rely on Web services as a matter of course. The key word is rely: We assume that the data we upload to, say, a photo-hosting account or blog service today will still be there tomorrow. In large part, that's because we assume the services themselves will still be there tomorrow. Read More
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