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	Forecast for systems administrators: Cloudy Cloud computing and virtualization are redefining the role of the systems administrator. Here's how smart sysadmins are staying ahead out of the wave. Read More WEBCAST: Oracle Live: 2012 Database Management Survey Results Date: Thursday, August 30, 2012, 1:00 PM EDT Learn how your experience stacks up against your peers and gain insight on strategies to address the most pressing issues as new survey results on managing databases are revealed by Crimson Consulting in this live Webcast. Learn More In this Issue Google cloud vs. Amazon cloud: How they stack up 13 awesome and scary things in near Earth space Rackspace, HP go all in with OpenStack 5 ways to optimize public cloud applications DeepField Networks exits stealth mode to reveal cloud genome mapping Dropbox blames employee account breach for spam attack Hosted IP telephony maturing for mainstream enterprise adoption Microsoft details Office Web Apps enhancements Box raises $125 million in funding WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems 9 Reasons Why Citrix NetScaler Beats F5 Is your network ready for the Cloud? Not with F5. Shift to Citrix NetScaler. • 2x consolidation – for less • 2x faster 2048-bit SSL performance • 5x capacity on demand – no new hardware. • All functionality, all devices, all the time. Download 9 Reasons Citrix NetScaler beats F5. Learn More Google cloud vs. Amazon cloud: How they stack up Google's new IaaS cloud boasts strong compute performance but lacks the breadth of features in Amazon Web Services' 4-year-old Elastic Compute Cloud, according to one industry analyst's side-by-side comparison of the services. Read More 13 awesome and scary things in near Earth space Space debris, comets, asteroids and cool clouds highlight Earth space news. Read More WHITE PAPER: Silver Peak Systems, Inc. Proven Techniques to Cope with Packet Loss If you have a WAN link with an RTT of 100 ms and packet loss of 1% the throughput is virtually nil. Learn how to overcome this issue in this paper that highlights: - Key WAN characteristics of out of order and lost packets - Packet loss impact on data replication - How MPLS statistics fool network professionals Learn more. Rackspace, HP go all in with OpenStack Rackspace and HP have each brought major portions of their cloud offerings based on the OpenStack code out of beta and into general availability today. Read More 5 ways to optimize public cloud applications Moving to the public cloud can be as easy as migrating your applications and paying your monthly bill. But are you spending more than you should? These five public cloud application optimization techniques will help you save money and improve performance to boot. Read More DeepField Networks exits stealth mode to reveal cloud genome mapping DeepField Networks, an Ann Arbor, Mich., startup, is coming out of stealth mode Tuesday to announce an analytics tool that maps the traffic patterns, application performance and cost structure of networks for cloud computing companies, content providers and carriers. Read More WHITE PAPER: Centage Corporation Transition from Spreadsheet Budgets to Packaged Application This white paper details the problems that go with spreadsheet-based budgeting as well as the advantages of packaged applications. It also proposes a road map to help start the transition of your budgeting from a spreadsheet platform to an enterprise packaged application. Learn more. Dropbox blames employee account breach for spam attack Dropbox said one of its employee's accounts was compromised, leading to a raft of spam last month that irritated users of the cloud-storage service. Read More Hosted IP telephony maturing for mainstream enterprise adoption IP telephony adoption has progressed slowly for more than a decade, but with hosted voice vendors now offering modular consumption models and shifting away from simply viewing hosted voice as a way to sell broader unified communications (UC) solutions, organizations can now pursue IP telephony services as a highly scalable stand-alone service. Read More Microsoft details Office Web Apps enhancements Microsoft is test driving a new version of its Office Web Apps suite, whose applications are hosted by the vendor and accessed by users via a web browser. Read More Box raises $125 million in funding Box has received US$125 million in funding, an infusion the company will use to boost its international expansion and strengthen its cloud-hosted enterprise collaboration, storage, file-sharing and content management software. Read More
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