5 great Android apps for cloud admins

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	5 great Android apps for cloud admins If you administer cloud servers or services, such as those from Amazon Web Services or Rackspace, you might be relieved to learn that you don't need access to a notebook or desktop PC to perform routine administrative tasks. Install one of these five apps on your Android phone or tablet, and you can manage your cloud infrastructure from anyplace where you can access the Internet. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cloud Leadership Forum Cloud economics workshop Come to the Cloud Leadership Forum to evaluate the financial benefits--and challenges--of migrating to cloud. Includes a free cloud economics workshop led by IDC analysts using IDC's online Cloud Decision Framework to help you quantify cloud costs. Learn more. In this Issue Verizon to offer 100G links, resilient mesh on optical networks Greenpeace infiltrates Apple's Cupertino campus Avaya simplifies BYOD connectivity; EarthLink adds to cloud service 5 outsourcing trends to watch SAP lays out cloud strategy post-SuccessFactors deal Apple admits second iCloud mail outage Open source cloud project backers duking it out for support Is your cloud provider exposing remnants of your data? HP expands cloud services beta Up next for the cloud: Big data analytics? Plantronics continues to evolve devices WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Steelhead Cloud Accelerator Solution Brief Learn how enterprises must tackle these challenges for SaaS applications to remain a viable option. Read now. Verizon to offer 100G links, resilient mesh on optical networks Looking ahead to growing demand for bandwidth to feed large companies and computing clouds, Verizon Communications announced steps on Friday to increase the speed of the links its enterprise customers can buy and to make its network connections more resilient. Read More Greenpeace infiltrates Apple's Cupertino campus Greenpeace infiltrated Apple's Cupertino campus this week, projecting messages from Twitter and Facebook users who are dismayed at Apple's use of coal at the data centre that powers its cloud services. Read More Avaya simplifies BYOD connectivity; EarthLink adds to cloud service Avaya has enhanced its portfolio to deliver unified wired and wireless network access to employees, guests and their personal devices while maintaining enterprise security. The changes were announced at Interop 2012 just held in Las Vegas. Read More WEBCAST: BMC Software 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! 5 outsourcing trends to watch The deals are getting smaller, with new pricing models, while security and cloud computing become hot topics. Read More SAP lays out cloud strategy post-SuccessFactors deal SAP announced a broad set of plans to become a player in cloud computing, spanning from a "loosely coupled suite" of business applications to data integration and PaaS (platform as a service) Tuesday during the Sapphire conference in Orlando. Read More Apple admits second iCloud mail outage The second iCloud outage in a week left 15 million users unable to access iCloud mail on Monday. 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Read More HP expands cloud services beta Preparing for its entry into the market for IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service), Hewlett-Packard on Thursday launched a second beta program of cloud computing services it plans to offer commercially. Read More Up next for the cloud: Big data analytics? In an effort to diversify its cloud offerings, NaviSite - a Time Warner Cable cloud computing and managed hosting company - announced plans to offer storage service for customers in what one analyst says could the beginning of service providers looking to offer big data analysis from the cloud. Read More Plantronics continues to evolve devices Two items for this edition: First, Plantronics continues to evolve its devices, extending device intelligence beyond unified communications awareness into intelligence that can be integrated with other applications. In other news, Mitel has announced a new cloud-based service as the next evolutionary step for its Unified Communications-as-a-Service (UCaaS) portfolio. Read More
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