Gartner: 5 things a private cloud is NOT

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	Gartner: 5 things a private cloud is NOT The National Institute for Standards in Technology has a definition of what cloud computing is that's fairly agreed upon within the industry. But research firm Gartner says there's still a lot of cloud-washing, or market confusion on exactly what the technology is. Today, the firm released a list of five things the cloud is not. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Verizon Wireless Verizon Cloud Solutions for business Improve time to market. Scale capacity to demand. Simplify the deployment of apps. Reduce capital investment. Control operating costs. Cloud Solutions from Verizon can enhance your competitive advantage and improve IT flexibility. And since you only pay for the capacity you need, you're more agile and better equipped to support changing demands. Click to continue In this Issue 20 awesome cloud services you've never heard of IBM chief: Supercomputing to SMEs will be huge cloud market in the future iPads lighten load for sales staff at Boston Scientific Google touts new Apps customers in education vertical INSIDER The cloud is at your service Cars as a Service? Mercedes-Benz latest to use cloud to flog vehicles CloudAccess.net: Building a success around Joomla Avoid moving from a dumb pipe to a dumb cloud Just what is Dell's cloud strategy? Amazon Web Services simplifies private cloud configuration, adds SQL Server Nasuni latest to roll out mobile access to cloud-based network storage WHITE PAPER: SafeNet Inc Securing Sensitive Data in Virtual and Cloud Environments This paper reveals how SafeNet ProtectV delivers critical capabilities that combine encryption, access policies, key management, content security, and authentication to help security teams effectively meet governance, compliance, and data protection mandates. Learn More 20 awesome cloud services you've never heard of Web services are quickly replacing desktop programs for routine tasks such as image editing, spreadsheet creation and more. Here are 20 such services that we think are worth your time. Read More IBM chief: Supercomputing to SMEs will be huge cloud market in the future Tikiri Wanduragala, a senior systems consultant at IBM, has said that the next big thing to happen in the cloud computing market will be the availability of supercomputing applications to small and medium sized businesses. Read More iPads lighten load for sales staff at Boston Scientific A new iPad strategy at Boston Scientific freed its sales staff from lugging around sales brochures. Finding the right cloud strategy, however, has proved more challenging. Read More WEBCAST: Webroot Software Try the fastest business security ever. Online security is an increasing risk for businesses, but what is the best solution? Cloud-based SaaS security is an emerging trend for organizations looking to address today's security reality. Learn about the cloud-based SaaS security. Learn More. Google touts new Apps customers in education vertical Google announced 14 new customers for its Apps for Education cloud suite, as it continues to jockey for position against rivals like Microsoft in this important vertical market. Read More INSIDER The cloud is at your service If you follow cloud computing, you're no doubt familiar with software as a service, typically associated with Salesforce.com, or infrastructure as a service, which was pioneered by Amazon.com. But how about CaaS, SECaaS, DaaS, MaaS and BaaS? Read More Cars as a Service? Mercedes-Benz latest to use cloud to flog vehicles As a car manufacturer how do you express that your vehicles have the latest and greatest cutting-edge technology? Use the buzzwords. Read More WHITE PAPER: NEC Corporation Programmable Network Fabric for Datacenters and the Cloud Read this white paper to find out how NEC ProgrammableFlow Network Fabric leverages the OpenFlow protocol to create a smart, simple, secure and scalable solution for the enterprise datacenter. Learn More CloudAccess.net: Building a success around Joomla Gary Brooks was making a living building people's "Internet homes" using Joomla. He saw that the Joomla open source project's demo site was not very stable. He decided he could do better. He went to Open Source Matters, the organization behind Joomla and asked if he could host the demo site. Read More Avoid moving from a dumb pipe to a dumb cloud Back in 1998 when Google Search started to replace AltaVista, could you imagine the company would be laying fiber in Kansas City in 2012 to offer a 100 times faster Internet service? Or that the New York Stock Exchange would evolve from a trading floor in its 1903 building on Broad Street, to offering virtual and physical colocated computing infrastructure services in its New Jersey data center? Read More Just what is Dell's cloud strategy? Dell's agreement to offer a public cloud hosted by Nirvanix leaves open the question of the company's long-term strategy. Read More Amazon Web Services simplifies private cloud configuration, adds SQL Server Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made it possible to connect to its Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) service using static routing, while also allowing enterprises to run SQL Server within the private cloud. Read More Nasuni latest to roll out mobile access to cloud-based network storage Within a few years, mobile access to cloud-based storage will be a "checkmark" feature that will be fairly ubiquitous among the major vendors, predicts 451 Research Group analyst Simon Anderson. We're not quite there yet, but more and more vendors are rolling out the feature. Read More
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