Moving to the cloud in 2012? Look out for these pitfalls

	Q&A: Nimsoft CEO Chris O'Malley touts new 'supply chain of IT' | Is Google's big bet on Google+ too risky?
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	Moving to the cloud in 2012? Look out for these pitfalls Businesses that want to take advantage of the maturing cloud marketplace in 2012 can learn from some common mistakes others have made when moving to infrastructure- and platform-as-a-service offerings, experts said. Read More WEBCAST: MegaPath Experts: Security in the Cloud IP Engineering expert Sean Crandall describes 3 security options to protect your network View Now In this Issue Q&A: Nimsoft CEO Chris O'Malley touts new 'supply chain of IT' Is Google's big bet on Google+ too risky? Cloud adviser: Where's your data? SDN company helps build clouds TwinStrata integrates storage gateway with OpenStack-based clouds Cloud development documentation insanity Google App Engine high availability storage exits experimental stage Salesforce.com opens Tokyo data center Seattle hospital finds zero clients means better care, lower costs Alcatel-Lucent unveils key piece of data center fabric 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! Q&A: Nimsoft CEO Chris O'Malley touts new 'supply chain of IT' Systems monitoring and management may be headed to the cloud as management-as-a-service. Nimsoft CEO Chris O'Malley explains what that means and how it will affect IT in this Q&A -- part of the ongoing IDG Enterprise CEO Interview Series. Read More Is Google's big bet on Google+ too risky? Google is ending 2011 with a cliffhanger: Will Google+ succeed? And if it does not, how much damage will the company suffer as a result? Read More Cloud adviser: Where's your data? With cloud computing, technology has advanced more quickly than the law's ability to effectively address its implications. Read More 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! SDN company helps build clouds Contextream, a developer of network virtualization software for cloud computing, this week announced the availability of Contextream Grid for cloud and managed hosting providers. Read More TwinStrata integrates storage gateway with OpenStack-based clouds Enterprises can now use TwinStrata's CloudArray to access storage capacity hosted in OpenStack-based clouds. Read More Cloud development documentation insanity Everybody knows that complex technology needs documents and training materials so that developers can effectively use it. In the cloud, this need is magnified by the fact that developers have to work with several languages at once (HTML, JavaScript, XML, CSS, jquery, Ruby, PHP, SQL...the possibilities are endless). So developers need more docs, right? 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 Google App Engine high availability storage exits experimental stage The latest version of Google's SDK (software development kit) for its cloud platform App Engine includes the High-Replication Datastore, which has been made generally available, the company says. Read More Salesforce.com opens Tokyo data center Salesforce.com's first data center in Japan has begun operations, the company said. Read More Seattle hospital finds zero clients means better care, lower costs Seattle Children's Hospital has installed 2,600 zero client devices in four locations, many connected with a wireless LAN that helps doctors and nurses access patient data at the bedside within seconds. Read More Alcatel-Lucent unveils key piece of data center fabric Alcatel-Lucent this week rolled out 40G Ethernet modules for its top-of-rack data center switches to help further its data center fabric strategy. Read More
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