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	Amazon Web Services helps users avoid bill shock Amazon Web Services users can now start receiving billing alerts that help them continuously monitor their cloud costs, the company says. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Xsigo Systems Download Gartner Report: Choosing the Right Fabric Vendor Is your organization considering plans for a virtualized data center fabric? This Gartner report provides guidance and a Scorecard, enabling you to select the right fabric vendors based on 10 criteria. Gartner suggests you apply these criteria within your best practices for data center project planning. Get the complete report, compliments of Xsigo Systems. In this Issue Largest Illinois healthcare system uproots Cisco to build $40M private cloud What's up with Google Drive? 9 cloud development platforms on the rise Microsoft cloud survey: Security, cost both a deterrent and an attraction About 600,000 L.A. Community College students to get Microsoft Live@EDU Cloud computing tools: Improving security through visibility and automation Pixorial leads with Google Drive: Will developers follow? 5 key Interop 2012 takeaways for CIOs and other IT pros Database in the cloud: Which is best? Cloud, BYOD increases need for automated IAM systems SAP certifies Business All-in-One for Amazon Web Services WHITE PAPER: Teradata Cloud Computing Models for Data Warehousing Gain better business intelligence through private cloud self service capabilities. In this whitepaper, analyst Mark Madsen explores why private cloud computing is a better choice to meet your analytical needs as business conditions fluctuate and grow. Learn more. Largest Illinois healthcare system uproots Cisco to build $40M private cloud Advocate Health Care replaces Cisco Catalyst 6509 core with 10G Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch fabric Read More What's up with Google Drive? Now that Google has rolled out their competitor to Dropbox and Microsoft's SkyDrive, and both the Dropbox folks and Microsoft have made adjustments in their products to respond to what Google offers, let's take a step back to see what the newcomer is bringing to the table. Read More 9 cloud development platforms on the rise These turnkey development services get your apps up and running quickly, saving you from infrastructure tedium. Read More 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. Microsoft cloud survey: Security, cost both a deterrent and an attraction Small and midsize businesses that actually use cloud services see them as a way to boost security and save money, according to a survey sponsored by Microsoft. Read More About 600,000 L.A. Community College students to get Microsoft Live@EDU The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) will provide email and collaboration applications to about 600,000 students via Microsoft's Live@EDU cloud suite, a project for which it also considered Google Apps for Education. Read More Cloud computing tools: Improving security through visibility and automation Many enterprises are reluctant to move critical cloud applications out of their own data centers and into the public cloud due to security concerns. Yet the same automated, consistent provisioning that is essential to managing either public or private clouds (as well as to the process of thinking through a cloud deployment) can also offer the fringe benefit of improving security. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Get a Robust, Flexible Foundation for Cloud Deployments This paper provides recommendations and best practices for optimizing virtualization infrastructures when deploying the Oracle Optimized Solution for Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure. Learn More! Pixorial leads with Google Drive: Will developers follow? When Pixorial updated its video-sharing iOS app last month, the company added a feature its competitors couldn't yet match: integration with the new Google Drive cloud storage service. Read More 5 key Interop 2012 takeaways for CIOs and other IT pros As everything from application delivery to security and monitoring is seemingly shifting to the cloud, IT faces a chaotic and difficult to manage world. The good news is the tools are there, but you just can't go to a single provider as you did in the past. Given this shift, it's no surprise that Interop returned to its interoperability roots last week. Read More Database in the cloud: Which is best? The perfect storm of the cloud, mobility and big data has led to a blooming in the database market. After years and years of Oracle's dominance, with Microsoft's SQL server carving out the Windows-only market, and finally MySQL offering an open source alternative, the database market is booming. Read More Cloud, BYOD increases need for automated IAM systems As traditional security concepts of perimeter and end-point defense break down as a result of the proliferation of cloud services and the BYOD phenomenon, enterprises are increasingly feeling the need for greater control over access to applications. That's where automated identity and access management comes in. Read More SAP certifies Business All-in-One for Amazon Web Services SAP has certified its Business All-in-One ERP (enterprise resource planning) application for cloud-based deployments on Amazon Web Services, the companies announced Friday. Read More
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