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	10 SaaS delivery companies to watch Analysts and industry watchers agree that the next frontier for SaaS is setting distribution channels designed specifically for the cloud and providing mechanisms for managing multiple SaaS offerings from a single control point. These advancements will likely come from a variety of sources: established SaaS vendors, startups providing SaaS channel enabling software, and cloud service brokerage houses. Here are 10 to watch, listed in alphabetical order. Read More WHITE PAPER: Comcast Better Network Connectivity Drives Transformation Network connectivity is more than just plumbing. Leading organizations today see high-performance network connectivity as a critical enabler of competitive advantage, and not just a way to cut expenses. Click here for exclusive survey findings from Comcast and IDG on why Ethernet/fiber is the smart choice for high-performance network connectivity. Learn More In this Issue Taking SaaS to the next level Is the cloud really ready for prime time? IBM updates Rational tools for cloud, mobile Like Cisco, ALU finds reluctance to embrace cloud Sanitize Office: How to remove personal metadata Hacktivists UGNazi attack 4chan, CloudFlare and Wounded Warrior Project An evolutionary WAN path to cloud computing with WAN Virtualization Cloud fever and TonidoPlug: Your own personal cloud SAP to pay $4.3B for cloud B2B vendor Ariba WHITE PAPER: Extreme Networks Mobility in the Network: A Phased Technology Approach The evolution of the network to provide the intelligence needed to address user, device and application mobility is underway. In this white paper, Extreme Networks® outlines the five phases required to bring mobility into the network. Learn more. Taking SaaS to the next level Software as a service has some wildly successful poster boys such as Salesforce.com, Google Apps, NetSuite, Workday, ADP and Concur. Every new independent software vendor is developing for the SaaS market. And for the established software companies, it's a case of articulate and deliver on a cloud strategy or die. Read More Is the cloud really ready for prime time? Coupa, a 2006 startup that helps more than 200 customer companies manage purchasing and procurement, doesn't own any IT infrastructure -- it is run completely from the Amazon Web Service cloud. Read More IBM updates Rational tools for cloud, mobile With a focus on both cloud and mobile, IBM has updated its Rational line of software development management products and services, the company announced Monday during the kick off its annual Innovate software conference, being held this week in Orlando. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap Denver Your IT Career Roadmap This unique session is designed with you, the IT professional in mind. How can you build your personal brand, and properly design a career plan? How do you work with your staff to create a plan that retains your best talent? Come to IT Roadmap Denver for valuable information on how today's IT leaders build successful careers. Click to continue Like Cisco, ALU finds reluctance to embrace cloud Cisco's not the only vendor pumping out surveys and studies on cloud adoption. Alcatel-Lucent, which is at the heart of a $40 million private cloud implementation in Illinois' largest hospital network, has a study of its own to share, too. Read More Sanitize Office: How to remove personal metadata Microsoft announced Office 365 for Government. Since "security and privacy play a big role in any decision to move to the cloud," the feds' version will reside on separate servers than from the standard Office 365 users. Read More Hacktivists UGNazi attack 4chan, CloudFlare and Wounded Warrior Project The hacktivist collective UGNazi has been extremely busy attacking the Wounded Warrior Project, CloudFlare and the imageboard site 4chan. CloudFlare admitted to the attack which allowed UGNazi hackers to change the DNS records for 4chan. Cosmo, thought to be the leader of UGNazi, tweeted about gaining access into CloudFlare and defacing 4chan. 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 An evolutionary WAN path to cloud computing with WAN Virtualization Today we'll look at how WAN virtualization combined with the strategic use of colocation facilities as part of the next-generation enterprise WAN (NEW) architecture enables an at-your-own-pace migration to leveraging public cloud computing services and even building so-called hybrid clouds. Read More Cloud fever and TonidoPlug: Your own personal cloud I know why you're happy ... you've got cloud fever. You can't get enough of cloud this and cloud that so, as a change from megascale, enterprise-scale, cumulonimbus-like behemoths, let's look at a something more on the wispy, happy, summer stratus-like scale. The TonidoPlug 2, which is based on the SheevaPlug and developed and marketed by CodeLathe LLC, is a personal cloud system that is really cool, amazingly well-featured, and remarkably inexpensive. Read More SAP to pay $4.3B for cloud B2B vendor Ariba SAP has agreed to buy cloud-based e-commerce vendor Ariba for $4.3 billion. Read More
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