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	Cisco flying into the clouds Cisco has made two recent moves to aggressively go after as much cloudshare as it can get. The first was naming CIO Rebecca Jacoby to head up its new Cloud and Systems Management Technology Group, which is an amalgamation of three previously separate business units chartered to increase the company's presence in IaaS, PaaS and SaaS markets. Read More WHITE PAPER: i365 Trusted Data Assurance in the Cloud Cloud-based services are here to stay. Cloud services are even more attractive for companies who are being hit with the high cost of meeting compliance requirements - especially for small and mid-size companies that have shrinking or no information security budget. Read now! In this Issue New Cisco cloud computing framework pushes management, collaboration 10 must-have tools for cloud power users Cloud computing disrupts the vendor landscape Hudson spinoff Jenkins gets commercial backing Fuji Xerox to launch Dropbox-like cloud storage service for its copiers Dell, Salesforce.com deepen partnership around SMB cloud app delivery Blazemeter brings load and performance testing to the cloud HPCC, now available on public, private and every cloud in between SuccessFactors acquiring Jobs2web days after SAP deal WHITE PAPER: BMC Managing Cloud Services from Request to Retirement This lifecycle is tailored to the needs of the business, with both the flexibility to deliver the full required software stacks and the management rigor to ensure the operational integrity of the cloud. Learn More! New Cisco cloud computing framework pushes management, collaboration Cisco this week unveiled products and packaging options for customers looking to implement public, private and hybrid cloud computing. Read More 10 must-have tools for cloud power users For many of us, the cloud has changed the way we work and play. Thanks to well-known services like Gmail, Dropbox, Facebook and Instapaper, practically our whole lives -- photos, documents, contacts and more -- are online. So isn't it time to take control? Read More Cloud computing disrupts the vendor landscape If you think cloud computing is a disruptive force within the enterprise, just imagine what the cloud is doing to the vendor landscape. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Consolidation without Compromise Pay more to get less consolidation? The Iron Age is over. Shift to Citrix NetScaler. 2x consolidation. For less. Get Consolidation Without Compromise now. Read more Hudson spinoff Jenkins gets commercial backing Java platform-as-a-service cloud provider CloudBees has launched a commercial version of the Jenkins CI (continuous integration) platform, the company announced Wednesday. Read More Fuji Xerox to launch Dropbox-like cloud storage service for its copiers Fuji Xerox will launch a new cloud storage service that hooks directly into its multifunction copiers next week, allowing documents to be uploaded by scan or fax, then edited or downloaded by computer or phone. Read More Dell, Salesforce.com deepen partnership around SMB cloud app delivery Dell is rounding out its cloud CRM service with the addition of Salesforce.com's Service Cloud customer-service software, the companies announced Wednesday. 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 Blazemeter brings load and performance testing to the cloud The Internet was a huge disruptor to many industries. The travel and stockbroker markets to name just two. The cloud promises to be perhaps even more disruptive as it continues to gain scale. One area where I would welcome its disruption is in the QA testing market. Alon Girmonsky and the folks at Blazemeter are hoping to do just that. Read More HPCC, now available on public, private and every cloud in between HPCC is the high-powered, super computer, big data solution which has powered LexisNexis's own needs for years. The company has literally put millions of dollars into its development. However, they realized that by open sourcing the software collaboration by the community could take the program to levels that they could not by just using it internally. Read More SuccessFactors acquiring Jobs2web days after SAP deal Cloud-based human resources software vendor SuccessFactors said it's acquiring Jobs2web for $110 million, just days after SAP announced it would buy SuccessFactors in a $3.4 billion deal. Read More
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