Thursday, June 14, 2012

8 questions that will dominate enterprise cloud adoption

  Cloud federation: It's happening | Does VMware move signal that Big Data is ready for prime time?
 
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8 questions that will dominate enterprise cloud adoption
Enterprises have spent the past few years considering if they'll embrace cloud computing. For the many that have made the move, their attention has now turned to managing the cloud and getting business value from it, says IDC Chief Cloud Analyst Frank Gens. Read More


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Cloud federation: It's happening
Although far from a fait accompli, cloud federation is in the works. Like ants in the Internet ant hill, cloud providers are beginning to join forces to improve their individual prospects for long-term growth and sustainability. Read More

Does VMware move signal that Big Data is ready for prime time?
Deploying, configuring and maintaining Hadoop clusters is challenging and time-intensive, but VMware aims to change that with a new open source project that virtualizes the Hadoop cluster and makes it ready for the cloud. Read More

Cisco router software connects enterprises to the cloud
As expected, Cisco this week rolled out the Cloud Connected Solution, software for its ISR and ASR routers that's designed to enable enterprises to implement and access cloud networks and services. Read More


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Collaborate with Your Business Network in the Cloud
In this article, we will look at SAP's business network framework and solutions that can help you more effectively manage collaboration with your partner network and gain insights to reduce risk and improve performance. Learn More

SaaS and ASCAP make beautiful music together
Over the years, our main mode of music consumption went from vinyl to 8-track tapes to CDs to iPods to services like Pandora and Spotify that can stream music to just about any device. Read More

INSIDER
Global economic woes slow IT spending
IT budgets are expected to increase an average of only 3 percent this year, down from 6 percent reported last year, according to CIOmagazine's latest Tech Poll of 200 IT leaders. The survey, conducted in April, showed that budget increases are in store for nearly half of CIOs, up from 32 percent roughly 9 months ago. Just one in five CIOs anticipate IT budget cuts. Read More

Amazon pitches MySQL in the cloud for $19 a month
Amazon Web Services has introduced a micro version of its cloud-based database service RDS running MySQL and priced from US$19 a month, the company said on Monday. Read More


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Easing the Transition to a Virtual Endpoint Infrastructure
This Technology Spotlight discusses the drivers, benefits, and challenges of creating virtual desktop environments, and looks at the role EMC Global Services plays in helping companies achieve successful deployments of this important technology. Learn More

Securing mixed cloud environments
Securing cloud computing environments is challenging enough, but is made all the more complicated when a mix of cloud options are employed, an approach that will become increasingly common. Read More

Symantec and Microsoft team for disaster-recovery service
Symantec today announced a partnership with Microsoft to use Symantec storage and disaster-recovery products in tandem with Microsoft's Azure to allow continuous computing if a customer's main data site is severely disrupted. Read More

LinkedIn user alerts mistakenly blocked as spam
Many of the LinkedIn emails alerts instructing users on how to reset passwords accessed by hackers were dumped into spam boxes, according to email security vendor Cloudmark. Read More

Microsoft readies post-Flame Windows Update changes
Microsoft will start feeding users an update to the critical Windows Update service in the next few days, several security experts said today. Read More

NYSE-Euronext network chief Andrew Bach joins Juniper
Andrew Bach, who oversaw significant upgrades to network infrastructure for the global exchange company NYSE-Euronext, has joined Juniper Networks as chief architect of the networking vendor's Financial Services Team. Read More

 
 
 

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