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	Are you paying too much for cloud services? Knowing exactly how much and what type of cloud service a company needs is one of the more challenging aspects of deploying a cloud strategy, and most enterprises are getting it wrong, according to experts. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Microsoft Try Microsoft Office 365, free Collaborate in the cloud with Office, Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync videoconferencing. Access, edit, and share documents. Starting at $8/user/month. Try it free. In this Issue How GSA is securing its cloud apps IBM battles dire mainframe myths Amazon uses nearly half a million servers to power EC2, researcher estimates Cloud-based single sign-on: A business perk for customers? Does Apple have a problem with Push Email From The Cloud? Blue Coat unifies security reporting in cloud service, appliances Microsoft plans Q4 debut for Dynamics ERP on the Azure cloud VMware eases cloud provisioning tuCloud criticizes Microsoft, OnLive for virtual desktop licensing debacle RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: EMC Transform End User Computing Turn to EMC to bring new simplicity, power, and efficiency to end user computing-any user, any device, anywhere. Click to continue How GSA is securing its cloud apps As the General Services Administration (GSA) migrates to a work-anywhere, work-anytime strategy, the real estate arm of the U.S. federal government is discovering that having an iron-clad security strategy is critical to its adoption of cloud-based applications. Read More IBM battles dire mainframe myths The perception of mainframe technology as outmoded or inefficient is wildly inaccurate in a number of important ways, according to IBM's chief architect for cloud computing, Frank DeGilio. Read More Amazon uses nearly half a million servers to power EC2, researcher estimates Although most end users never get a clear view of the infrastructure underlying the services they consume via Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, Accenture Research Manager Huan Liu recently estimated that a whopping 454,400 individual blade servers are currently being used to power that product. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Best Practices to Architect Applications in the IBM Cloud It's clear that cloud environments are a great way to deliver software—but what are the best ways to use it really well? Read this report to learn how to leverage cloud environments, design applications for successful cloud-based deployments and safeguard your virtual machines. Read Now Cloud-based single sign-on: A business perk for customers? As companies sort out their cloud strategies, some are finding cloud-based single sign-on (SSO) can be a high-tech "perk" for customers. Read More Does Apple have a problem with Push Email From The Cloud? It seems there has been a persistent problem with push email especially from Apple's .Me service on the flagship iOS 5 system. This problem plagues both iPhone and iPads, and while the latest 5.1 iOS update temporarily fixed it, the problem is still out there. Read More Blue Coat unifies security reporting in cloud service, appliances Blue Coat Systems today said it's unified the real-time reporting in its cloud-based security service with that in its full line of ProxySG security appliances so that enterprises receive real-time information related to both. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Oracle Solaris on the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud This paper provides a high level overview of the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and then describes the value that Oracle Solaris brings to the Oracle Exalogic offering. Learn More! Microsoft plans Q4 debut for Dynamics ERP on the Azure cloud Microsoft is planning to roll out its first "cloud-enabled" Dynamics ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications by the end of this year, the company announced Monday during the Convergence conference in Houston. Read More VMware eases cloud provisioning VMware has made its vCloud Integration Manager available, which it says lets service providers more efficiently provision cloud networks for clients. Read More tuCloud criticizes Microsoft, OnLive for virtual desktop licensing debacle Less than a week after Microsoft put its foot down on OnLive's virtual desktop solution for allegedly violating its licensing standards, tuCloud capitalized by releasing its own product, taking a few jabs at both OnLive and Microsoft in the process. Read More
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