What the cloud really means for your IT job

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	What the cloud really means for your IT job Depending on which survey or story you read, the cloud can be either a good thing for IT workers and their job security, or it can be terrifying. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Mellanox New High Density 40 GbE Switches Mellanox SX1000 10/40 GbE high density switches enable converged scalable fabrics with best-in-class performance for cloud and Web 2.0 data centers. A 'Best of Interop' Finalist, the SX1036 40GbE 1U switch delivers industry-leading latency performance (230ns at 40GbE and 250ns at 10GbE) with ultra-low power consumption. Learn more at mellanox.com. In this Issue Talent pool not big enough to meet skyrocketing cloud computing job demand What's your favorite enterprise IT product? Being prepared for when the cloud REALLY fails IT stressed over cloud and video bandwidth demands Amid doubts about cloud file-sharing services, enterprises operate their own Piston Cloud has made the tough private cloud decisions for you National Geographic moves media archive to cloud Dell plans over 20 data centers in Asia, as customers look to cloud Next up for DLP: The cloud? Sony division moves some services from AWS to OpenStack 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 Talent pool not big enough to meet skyrocketing cloud computing job demand The number of job postings in the cloud computing industry is growing so rapidly that there aren't enough qualified workers available to fill the positions, according to an analysis of hiring trends by Wanted Analytics. Read More What's your favorite enterprise IT product? Do you have a favorite enterprise IT product you can't live without? Tell us about it and we'll share your raves with our readers. Read More Being prepared for when the cloud REALLY fails Everything works well in the cloud, until it doesn't. Read More WEBCAST: BMC Unlock the Value of Cloud Computing with Workload Automation Learn how to get the most from your cloud investment in our on-demand webinar from BMC and InformationWeek. You'll hear how integrating the cloud into your production workload brings critical business benefits. Learn More! IT stressed over cloud and video bandwidth demands IT executives understand the value of cloud services and videoconferencing tools, but one of the chief concerns remains the strain those services put on network bandwidth, according to a study released today. Read More Amid doubts about cloud file-sharing services, enterprises operate their own Cloud-based file-sharing services like Dropbox have become popular, but organizations with sensitive data say they're reluctant to turn it over to cloud services. Instead, they're buying file-sharing products they manage on their own for bulk file transfers among business partners. Read More Piston Cloud has made the tough private cloud decisions for you Joshua McKenty, co-founder and chief executive officer of Piston Cloud, what he calls The Enterprise OpenStack Company, was in on the ground floor of OpenStack's creation, working as he was on the Anso Labs team at NASA to build a compute cloud on top of open source platform Eucalyptus. The team eventually gave up on that and wrote Nova, which NASA uses today to power its Nebula Cloud environment, and Nova was ultimately contributed to the OpenStack project, which it formed with Rackspace. McKenty left NASA after Anso was acquired by Rackspace in 2010, and formed Piston Cloud in 2011 with co-founders Gretchen Curtis (also of NASA) and Christopher MacGown of Rackspace. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix recently caught up with McKenty for a deep dive on why OpenStack matters and where Piston Cloud fits in. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Fine-Tune Your IT Performance Learn how to bridge the gap between application performance management solutions that don't understand the underlying network and network management products that don't know how to map network traffic to applications. Learn more! National Geographic moves media archive to cloud The National Geographic Society is in the process of uploading its backup and archive to a public cloud service. Read More Dell plans over 20 data centers in Asia, as customers look to cloud Dell plans to set up over 20 data centers in Asia to meet growing demand from customers for a mix of private and public clouds, the head of the company's Asia Pacific and Japan region said. Read More Next up for DLP: The cloud? Traditionally there have been two ways to host a data loss prevention security service: An on-premise application managed by the customer, or an on-premise application managed by the DLP supplier. BEW Global, a managed security service provider, has a third way: Through the cloud. Read More Sony division moves some services from AWS to 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
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