Public-sector cloud computing: The good, the bad and the ugly

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	Public-sector cloud computing: The good, the bad and the ugly When the second-in-command of one of the most technologically advanced states in the country slams public-sector computing -- publicly -- it's a resounding wake-up call. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Data Center and Private Cloud Solutions By progressively transforming your data center, you can turn it into a highly-optimized private cloud that maximizes efficiency, security, and agility, while providing elastic scalability and always-on availability. Learn More In this Issue Cloud providers touting multi-hypervisor support Top 15 cloud storage tips and tasks Cloud up there with root canal, Cisco study finds HP says SDNs are key to cloud deployment IT budgets grow as SMBs spend more on tablets and cloud services, says survey Is Azure a dirty word because it means cloud? Infrastructure cloud services take a shift toward PaaS Salesforce.com's Heroku rolls out new cloud database options How will Cisco COPE with SDNs? Samsung agrees to buy cloud entertainment service mSpot WEBCAST: SAP Automate Your Partners for Efficient E-Business Join IDC's Maureen Fleming and SAP for an insightful Webcast on the different approaches companies are taking to B2B integration and how you can ask the right questions to reassess your B2B approach. Learn More Cloud providers touting multi-hypervisor support When Tata Communications, the Indian telecommunications company, rolls out its infrastructure as a service cloud offering in America in the coming months, company officials want to claim differentiating features in the products. And one they're hoping to include is support for multiple hypervisors. Read More Top 15 cloud storage tips and tasks We pinpoint the cloud storage services with the best attributes for accomplishing specific tasks, and offer advice on how to use the cloud most effectively. Read More Cloud up there with root canal, Cisco study finds More than one-third of IT decision makers would rather get a root canal, dig a ditch, or do their own taxes than address network challenges associated with public or private cloud deployments. So says a Cisco survey released at Interop this week. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed End-To-End Application Acceleration Technologies Download this 7-page survey-driven analysis by Forrester to learn how to overcome cloud-related performance issues by extending optimization to SaaS applications. Read now. HP says SDNs are key to cloud deployment Software-defined networks (SDN) have the capability to provision applications in minutes instead of months, and speed deployment into the cloud, according to the head of HP Networking. Read More IT budgets grow as SMBs spend more on tablets and cloud services, says survey Small and medium-sized businesses are spending more money on IT, including adopting tablets, cloud services and virtualization to a greater extent, according to Spiceworks' State of SMB IT survey. Read More Is Azure a dirty word because it means cloud? Microsoft has sent its Windows Azure customers an email that says the word Azure will be dropped from the usage portal for the cloud services they buy. So, for example, Windows Azure Storage will appear simply as Storage on the bills, according to a ZDNet story about the change. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Cloud Computing in the Midmarket: Assessing the Options This paper looks at how organizations can integrate cloud solutions into existing infrastructures and how an incremental implementation approach might work. The paper also explains some principles for measuring the success of your cloud solutions. Learn More Infrastructure cloud services take a shift toward PaaS Services providers that have traditionally offered infrastructure as a service (IaaS) clouds are beginning to move up the stack into the platform as a service (PaaS) market in an effort to diversify their portfolio and respond to increasing customer demand for cloud-based development services. Read More Salesforce.com's Heroku rolls out new cloud database options Salesforce.com's Heroku division this week rolled out two entry-level tiers for its Postgres-based cloud database service, hoping to cater to applications with lower data-volume requirements as well as helping startup developers make an easier jump into production. Read More How will Cisco COPE with SDNs? Cisco's got a software-defined networking (SDN) architecture, but it won't say much about it. SDNs are a hot topic industrywide with the promise of abstracting the physical network infrastructure from control of it, enabling more adaptability for things like cloud computing and easier feature extension. Read More Samsung agrees to buy cloud entertainment service mSpot Samsung Electronics on Wednesday said it has agreed to buy mobile cloud service provider mSpot, which will help it expand cloud and entertainment offerings on its smartphones and tablets. Read More
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