12 hot cloud computing companies worth watching

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	12 hot cloud computing companies worth watching While big-name players such as Amazon, Google, IBM, Verizon and VMware sit atop the burgeoning cloud computing market, an entire ecosystem of early stage startups are looking to stake their claim, too. Read More WHITE PAPER: AMD Private Clouds and AMD Processors: A Match Made in IT Heaven Private clouds offer significant promise. This AMD white paper defines private clouds, describes how they are deployed, and discusses their allure. Read on to learn everything you need to know about private cloud technology and discover why the right microprocessor technology serves as a critical building block for private clouds. Learn More! In this Issue Cloud computing companies to watch: A product sampler INSIDER CDW CEO: On growing services, cloud applications and reshaping IT Vendors continue to pick sides between CloudStack, OpenStack Oracle seeks to delay cloud features in enterprise Java CipherCloud widens cloud-based encryption options Avaya announces virtualization enhancements Rackspace continues buying spree to boost services Survey: One-third of Americans believe "the cloud" is related to the weather, not tech Consolidation: Think beyond virtualization, think cloud D-Link NAS integrates with smartphones and stores up 16TB WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Join the scale revolution for cloud ready networks Today's cloud evolution requires a full scale revolution. Citrix TriScale technology transforms enterprise data centers into highly scalable enterprise clouds. Download this whitepaper and learn how to scale your cloud network for more elastic performance, seamless expansion and simple consolidation. Learn More Cloud computing companies to watch: A product sampler Previewing 8 products from our list of cloud computing startups worth watching. Read More INSIDER CDW CEO: On growing services, cloud applications and reshaping IT In this installment of the IDG Enterprise CEO Interview Series, CDW CEO Thomas Richards spoke with Chief Content Officer John Gallant about how CDW is expanding its strategic services offering, and how mobility and consumerization are expanding growth opportunities for the company. He also talked about the rollout of Windows 8 and the Surface tablet, and why CDW is in an ideal position to capitalize on the big changes reshaping IT. Read More Vendors continue to pick sides between CloudStack, OpenStack Earlier this year Citrix rumbled the open source cloud industry when it ditched OpenStack, a project backed by big-name companies such as Rackspace, Red Hat, Dell and HP, and launched CloudStack, a competing open source platform for cloud deployments. Months later, vendors across the industry are strategically aligning themselves on either side of the divide between OpenStack or CloudStack, which is now an Apache Software Foundation-managed project. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Capitalize on the Cloud with a Sound Network Strategy New research underscores cloud computing's challenging effects on corporate networks, but solutions are available. Learn More! Oracle seeks to delay cloud features in enterprise Java Oracle hopes to stay on schedule for Java EE 7 by deferring planned cloud capabilities to Java EE 8, due in 2015. Read More CipherCloud widens cloud-based encryption options CipherCloud this week broadened its encryption gateway support to include support for Microsoft's SharePoint, as well as the services Yammer and SAP's SuccessFactors. Read More Avaya announces virtualization enhancements Avaya had two announcements at the just-concluded VMworld 2012, unveiling new virtualization enhancements to its portfolio that build on the Avaya Collaborative Cloud, along with a new portfolio of cloud-ready, turnkey solutions codenamed Avaya Collaboration Pods. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Changing the Competitive Dynamics of the Business Date/Time: June 5, 2012, 11:00 a.m., EDT, 4:00 p.m. BST / 3:00 p.m. UTC Please join us for this webcast, as Dr. Barry Devlin, Founder and Principal, 9sight Consulting, describes what operational analytics can do for your business and reviews an architectural approach that will enable you to make it a reality. Register Now Rackspace continues buying spree to boost services Mergers and acquisitions are a steady source of churn in the technology industry and for cloud-service provider Rackspace, the company's M&A strategy has allowed it to expand into new areas of service, and beef up its existing offerings. Read More Survey: One-third of Americans believe "the cloud" is related to the weather, not tech Cloud seems to be a buzzword in tech, but it's misunderstood by a majority of regular Americans too, according to results of a new survey sponsored by Citrix. Read More Consolidation: Think beyond virtualization, think cloud It once made sense to run data center consolidation programs that were solely focused on virtualization. That time is over. To really reduce IT costs, data center consolidation means moving most applications to the cloud, and virtualizing only those that are better run in-house. If you only think about virtualization when you think of consolidation, you will miss opportunities to save. Read More D-Link NAS integrates with smartphones and stores up 16TB D-Link's latest addition to its network-attached storage portfolio, the Cloud Storage 4000, can store up to 16TB of data which can be accessed remotely using smartphones or tablets. But the company offers few cloud features to justify the name. Read More
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