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	UptimeCloud shows real-time AWS costs Uptime Software is the latest company aiming to help eliminate bill shock for cloud users. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks WLAN Vendor Ranking This 2011 Gartner Magic Quadrant analyzes and ranks the many options. Learn more. In this Issue Valentine's Day Google Doodles through the years Best practices for scaling up SaaS AT&T aims to ease private-to-hybrid cloud transition Citrix simplifies cloud service management Choose the right chargeback solution for greater cloud cost savings Oracle buying Taleo for US$1.9 billion in direct hit at SAP Building an IDPS without big iron Forget public cloud or private cloud, it's all about hyper-hybrid Cloudscaling to offer OpenStack private cloud platform NextAdvisor picks its top cloud storage services for consumers WEBCAST: HP Cloud and the IT Infrastructure Join guest speaker, Rohit Mehra, IDC Director of Enterprise Communications Infrastructure, to explore current trends, discuss best practices for optimizing Data Center and identify ways to better allocate network resources, reduce operating costs and improve application performance. View Now! Valentine's Day Google Doodles through the years Google goes all hearts and flowers on Feb. 14, at least most years. Read More Best practices for scaling up SaaS Guardian Life Insurance isn't about to take big risks when making IT investments, and CIO Frank Wander will be the first to tell you that he doesn't have a cloud computing strategy, per se. Read More AT&T aims to ease private-to-hybrid cloud transition AT&T has launched a new version of its Synaptic Compute as a Service offering designed to help enterprises access capacity beyond their private clouds. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quantum Big Data: Managing Explosive Growth Are you experiencing a data explosion? The trend toward leveraging Big Data for competitive advantage helps IT professionals successfully meet business goals. Learn how to reliably manage, store and access vast amounts of archived data while protecting it and keeping costs low. View Now Citrix simplifies cloud service management Citrix is shipping a new version of its cloud management software CloudStack that makes it simpler for service providers and large businesses to manage and provision cloud services. Read More Choose the right chargeback solution for greater cloud cost savings While cloud computing offers many opportunities for IT cost savings, its diverse and dynamic nature can make it difficult to reap the expected financial benefits. For example, how do you see all of your costs in a heterogeneous cloud environment? And how do you charge for the resources being used? Read More Oracle buying Taleo for US$1.9 billion in direct hit at SAP Oracle is buying cloud-based talent management and employee recruitment software vendor Taleo for roughly US$1.9 billion. The move comes shortly after SAP's move to acquire SuccessFactors, a close competitor of Taleo, for US$3.4 billion in a deal that has yet to close. Read More WEBCAST: NetIQ Disaster Recovery Planning and the Cloud Find out how virtualization is the stepping stone to the cloud and how to leverage virtualization technologies today to reduce the cost and improve the performance of your disaster recovery plan. Learn More! Building an IDPS without big iron Companies seeking to deploy intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDPS) for network security have traditionally had to rely on proprietary appliances that cost from $15,000 to $50,000. That puts IDPS out of reach for many small to midsize companies, but SaaS-based alternatives might fit the bill. Read More Forget public cloud or private cloud, it's all about hyper-hybrid Cloud computing has gone from being a promising technology to a reality that brings a unique set of challenges along with benefits. To fully leverage the disruptive potential of cloud without getting trapped in a web of integration complexity, CIOs and their IT organizations need to focus on what it means to rethink their business as a collection of services. Read More Cloudscaling to offer OpenStack private cloud platform Cloudscaling plans to introduce an OpenStack-based platform that enterprises can use to build private clouds. Read More NextAdvisor picks its top cloud storage services for consumers Consumer and small business product review site NextAdvisor.com launched a new category, with reviews and comparisons of the best cloud storage services. Read More
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