Friday, March 16, 2012

Cloud ROI: The Missing Link

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TechWeb Networking News Update -- Issue Highlights:
TOP STORY: Cloud ROI: The Missing Link
ALSO SEE: Avaya Buys Radvision, Broadens Video Reach
ANALYTIC REPORT: IT Pro Impact: Piston Cloud OpenStack Environment
WHITE PAPER: The Value of Smarter Datacenter Services
MOST POPULAR: New iPad And Enterprise IT: Exclusive Research
BLOG: Cloud Focus For Alcatel-Lucent Upgrades
WEBCAST: Self-Service without the Chaos
RESOURCES: Take Our Public Cloud Survey

TechWeb
NETWORKING NEWS UPDATE 
  Friday, March 16, 2012
REPORTS & WHITEPAPERS   |     MOST POPULAR   |     BLOG   |     WEBCASTS   |     RESOURCES  
TOP STORY
Cloud ROI: The Missing Link
What return are you getting on your investments in public cloud services? New research reveals you probably don't know, and that's a problem.

ALSO SEE
Avaya Buys Radvision, Broadens Video Reach
Radvision will help Avaya provide low-bandwidth, high-definition video to a broader variety of devices.

Training, Network Bandwidth Top Videoconferencing Concerns
More than 70% of companies expect to have active videoconferencing capabilities within a year, despite IT challenges, survey finds.

Health IT Infrastructure Often Comes Second
CDW Healthcare report shows that caregivers value their electronic tools, but many gripe about network speed. At many hospitals, EHRs come first and infrastructure improvements follow.

Intel Xeon E5: Server Chips With Virtualization Secrets
Chips used to be all about clock speeds and shrinking circuit size. But Intel's newest chips for data center servers are all about networking, I/O, and data movement, in the age of virtualization.

Inside Flat Networks
New designs promise faster, more reliable networks, but use caution.


 

REPORTS & WHITEPAPERS:
FEATURED REPORTS
IT Pro Impact: Piston Cloud OpenStack Environment
If OpenStack sounds appealing but the prospect of downloading, installing and customizing a suite of open source packages is anything but, Piston Cloud is an attractive alternative. It enables enterprise IT teams to build a private cloud in an afternoon, with commodity gear. Here's the lowdown.
DOWNLOAD NOW (REGISTRATION REQUIRED)
Featured Report

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FEATURED WHITEPAPERS
The Value of Smarter Datacenter Services
Read the white paper and learn how you can build a more efficient technological foundation by optimizing the entire lifecycle of your data center.
 

TODAY'S MOST POPULAR STORIES @ TECHWEB.COM:
New iPad And Enterprise IT: Exclusive Research
Business technology managers are showing greater interest in Apple's new iPad, but they continue to have reservations, an InformationWeek survey finds.

iPad Apps: 10 Hidden Gems
Apple's iTunes Store has more than 140,000 apps just for the iPad. You can't try all of them, of course, but here are 10 hidden gems worth the effort.

How One SMB Went Green With iPads
West Paw Design discovered that Apple's tablets let the pet supply company save money, improve productivity, and reduce its environmental impact.

 

FROM THE NETWORK COMPUTING BLOG:
Featured Blogger Cloud Focus For Alcatel-Lucent Upgrades
By Robert Mullins
Network equipment vendor Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise is introducing new switches and other feature enhancements to a collection of technologies it calls the “Application Fluency” network. This network platform recognizes the device seeking access to the network, authenticates a particular user and identifies the application they are running, and provides the appropriate degree of connectivity required. The company says these innovations are designed to enable enterprises to deliver cloud-based services.

Finding Fault With App Management
By Robert Mullins
With software applications being delivered from on-premise hardware and the cloud, with access to them coming from mobile devices as well as networked computers, and myriad application and network control systems now being deployed, network managers are scrambling like Lucy Ricardo in the candy factory scene. A new survey chronicling the challenges faced by application managers identifies the number one headache as being finding out where the trouble with an app is occurring.

Evaluating Cloud-Based ID Management Solutions
By Robert Dutt
The process of managing identity for enterprise applications and services is hard to begin with, but a lack of identity standards across cloud-based applications means that organizations looking to manage employee access to those applications will find it doubly hard.

 

WEBCASTS:

Self-Service without the Chaos
Enterprises are conflicted about their cloud strategies and it has to do with perception. You might be sold on the benefits of cloud, but there are a few perceived showstoppers. In this informative webinar with William Fellows of the 451 Research, we will explore how to ensure you can create self-service without the chaos to ensure you achieve the full benefits of cloud computing. It happens Thursday, March 22, 2012.
More Information & Registration
 

RESOURCES AND EVENTS:
Take Our Public Cloud Survey
InformationWeek is conducting a survey on the state of private cloud use in the enterprise. Upon completion of our survey, you will be eligible to enter a drawing to receive an 32-GB Apple iPod Touch. Additionally, you will receive a discount code good for 25% off Flex and Conference passes to Interop Las Vegas 2012, to be held at the Mandalay Bay, May 6-10.
It happens March 25-29 in Orlando, Fla.


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