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	7 hot security companies to watch There's a rush in security startups looking to tackle everything from identity management to encrypting cloud data. Here are some of the latest companies worth keeping an eye on. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Improve Your Business Capabilities Cisco enables businesses to realize the benefits of cloud computing - improved agility, better economics, enhanced security and a dynamic, assured experience. Cisco CloudVerse combines three key cloud elements - Unified Data Center, Cloud Intelligent Network, and Cloud Applications and Services. Learn more. In this Issue 5 signs that you've lost control over your cloud apps Watson clones could be delivered through the cloud Microsoft offers credits for 'Leap Day' Azure outage New key technology simplifies data encryption in the cloud IETF explores new working group on identity management in the cloud Cloud economics improving for users in wake of price cuts Identity management in the cloud emerges as hot-button issue for CIOs SaaS seeds ready to bloom Sony division drops AWS, goes OpenStack Integration in the Cloud Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum looks for new life WHITE PAPER: Oracle A Five-Step Action Plan for Executives Download this whitepaper, Get Serious About SOA Governance: A Five-Step Action Plan for Executives to see why many organizations are reaping the rewards of successful SOA transformations and what you need to do to make yours one of them. Read More! 5 signs that you've lost control over your cloud apps CIOs are waking up to the reality that they've lost control over access to data stored in software-as-a-service applications purchased by other departments. Read More Watson clones could be delivered through the cloud IBM, whose Watson computer system last year famously beat two of the "Jeopardy!" game show's top contestants, is now looking to deliver the AI-powered computer framework through the cloud. Read More Microsoft offers credits for 'Leap Day' Azure outage To make up for a string of outages that were caused by a software bug in its Azure cloud services, Microsoft is granting affected customers a 33% credit for the time they were left stranded during the Feb. 29 failure. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed vSphere Optimization Tactics Learn how this appliance handled Layer 4 connections and requests per second, HTTP connections and requests per second, HTTP 2K requests per second, HTTP throughput, SSL connections per second, SSL throughput, cache requests per second, and cache throughput. Read now. New key technology simplifies data encryption in the cloud Many companies cite data security as their top inhibitor to cloud adoption. Data encryption is a logical security measure, but key management can be tricky. Now there's a new service that simplifies key management while ensuring that no one but the data owner ever knows the master key. Read More IETF explores new working group on identity management in the cloud Proponents of a common scheme for managing user identity in cloud-based applications will pitch their idea to the Internet's premier standards-setting body at a meeting in Paris later this month. Read More Cloud economics improving for users in wake of price cuts Cloud computing price cuts by Google, Amazon and now Microsoft may indicate that businesses are discovering that moving to the cloud doesn't always save costs. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Disaster Recovery for Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) is the Oracle best practices blueprint for implementing Oracle high availability technologies and is one of the key requirements for any Oracle Fusion Middleware enterprise deployment. Learn more in this whitepaper about the various components of MAA and what this exceptional product can do for you. Learn More! Identity management in the cloud emerges as hot-button issue for CIOs As Sallie Mae migrates some of its most important applications to the cloud, the nation's largest provider of college loans is keeping an eye on compliance. Read More SaaS seeds ready to bloom One expected benefit from the shift to the cloud is the emergence of a refreshing new crop of innovative software suppliers. Read More Sony division drops AWS, goes OpenStack The division of Sony that suffered a cyberattack last year, which led to a major PlayStation network outage and sensitive customer data being compromised, has dropped Amazon Web Services for at least a portion of its cloud hosting and computing in favor of an OpenStack platform hosted by Rackspace. Read More Integration in the Cloud Mohawk Fine Papers says it has saved millions by leveraging a cloud service broker's service-oriented architecture and using it as a central integration point for all of its B2B transactions. Read More Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum looks for new life The founder of the Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum is working to revive the organization, which fizzled in 2010. Read More
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