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	vSphere5 sets the virtualization bar VSphere 5.0, the latest iteration of VMware's "Cloud Operating System," boasts a wealth of updates, including new tools to manage fleets of VMs, and vast tiers of virtualized, vMotion-enabled storage links. 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 In this Issue Life after Google Labs: 5 cool Google experimental apps CloudFlare unveils free IPv6 translation service NASA cloud architect forms company for private cloud Quake-prone Japanese area runs disaster system on Force.com Google becomes a teenager Concern over U.S. snoops drives Canadian political party to cloud-based encryption SMBs just aren't into the cloud Google asks court to dismiss lawsuit over Microsoft-only cloud contract Mozy ships hard drives to cloud backup customers OpenStack gets a new GUI Toshiba adds cloud-based backup option to consumer drives 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 Life after Google Labs: 5 cool Google experimental apps The death of Google Labs doesn't mean the end of Google experimentation. Here are five fun and useful Google experimental apps that are still around to play with. Read More CloudFlare unveils free IPv6 translation service Startup CloudFlare is turning the economics of IPv6 transition on its head with a free cloud-based IPv6-to-IPv4 translation service that is available to website operators starting today. Read More NASA cloud architect forms company for private cloud The lead architect of NASA's cloud platform, which spun off into the open-source OpenStack cloud operating system, is launching a new company and product aimed at helping enterprises more easily build private clouds. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Commerce 2.0 Strategy with 'Smarter Commerce' Initiative IDC Insight highlights the important elements of the IBM Smarter Commerce announcement and looks at the implications of the announcement in the context of a powerful movement Read More! Quake-prone Japanese area runs disaster system on Force.com A coastal region of Japan due for a major earthquake and possible tsunamis has implemented a cloud-based disaster management system run by Salesforce.com. Read More Google becomes a teenager Google is marking its 13th anniversary this morning with the customary Google Birthday Doodle. And everyone else is noting the event with teenager wisecracks. Read More Concern over U.S. snoops drives Canadian political party to cloud-based encryption One of Canada's largest political parties is using cloud-based Salesforce.com in the U.S. to store information about voters and interact with them, but worries that U.S. government snoops could peek at sensitive information under U.S. law prompted the Canadian party to use a strong encryption approach. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers, 2010 The market for ADCs is consolidating. However, innovation continues, especially among some select smaller players. Although there are clear leaders in the ADC market, enterprises should focus their buying decisions on a vendor's ability to support specific application requirements. Learn more! SMBs just aren't into the cloud A recent survey indicates that the mid-market is far from sold on cloud computing. Read More Google asks court to dismiss lawsuit over Microsoft-only cloud contract Google and one of its resellers have asked a federal court to dismiss their case against the U.S. Department of the Interior over Microsoft-only bids for cloud-based services. Read More Mozy ships hard drives to cloud backup customers Mozy has begun shipping hard drives to users of its MozyPro online backup service in order to speed up the initial full copy of data to be stored off site. Read More OpenStack gets a new GUI The developers behind OpenStack have updated their open source cloud software package with a new graphical user interface and a unified authentication management system. Read More Toshiba adds cloud-based backup option to consumer drives Toshiba today announced a new cloud service interface on its Canvio 3.0 line of external portable hard drives, which automatically discovers files and recommends which should be backed up to the cloud. Read More
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