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	Does OpenStack need a Linus Torvalds? OpenStack has been dubbed by some enthusiasts as the Linux of the cloud - an open source operating system for public or private clouds. But there's one stark difference between the two projects: OpenStack doesn't have a Linus Torvalds, the eccentric, outspoken, never-afraid-to-say-what-he-thinks figurehead of the Linux world. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Top 10 Cloud Backup and DR Best Practices Building out a complete disaster recovery infrastructure can be cost prohibitive for many organizations. This paper identifies the many ways the public cloud can supplement backup and recovery strategies and offers overall best practices to ensure secure and efficient data protection. Learn More In this Issue Seems that balky Amazon data center cries wolf, too IT budgets up, but salary cuts still a concern: study Microsoft brings big data to Windows Cisco study finds clouds moving in INSIDER Securing mixed cloud environments Gartner: Top 10 strategic technology trends for 2013 OpenStack: We can tell Amazon what to do, instead of the other way around Land O'Lakes turns to cloud for service desk BYOD resistance loosening but security practices lacking RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn LogMeIn Central: Automate, Monitor and Manage PCs. LogMeIn lets you Monitor and Manage PCs, deliver patches and updates to multiple PCS simultaneously. Central helps IT deliver seamless support that keeps employees productive and up and running. LogMeIn Central - automate routine tasks and do more. Free Trial Seems that balky Amazon data center cries wolf, too Yesterday's recurrence of reliability issues at the Northern Virginia facility of Amazon Web Services prompted one commenter on Reddit to facetiously suggest that the company "should burn that datacenter to the ground. It's cursed." Read More IT budgets up, but salary cuts still a concern: study Companies are still looking for ways for IT to reduce costs, still trying to increase employee productivity, and still cautious about raising IT salaries, according to the latest survey data from the Society for Information Management (SIM). Read More Microsoft brings big data to Windows Microsoft, with the help of partner Hortonworks, brings Hadoop to Windows and stakes its claim as a vendor of big data technologies with new cloud-based and on-premises offerings. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T VoIP Solutions Provide Enterprises With Various Benefits VoIP migration is a top telecom priority for many North American enterprises. Do you know why? Find out in this Forrester study, which reveals the opinions of telecommunications decision-makers like you. Read the report. Cisco study finds clouds moving in Global cloud traffic will grow sixfold between 2011 and 2016 while global data center traffic will quadruple in that time. That's just one of the findings in Cisco's second annual Global Cloud Index, an estimate of global data center and cloud-based IP traffic growth and trends. Read More INSIDER 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 Gartner: Top 10 strategic technology trends for 2013 If some of the top 10 strategic technology trends going into 2013 look familiar it's because quite a few -- like cloud computing and mobile trends -- have been around for awhile but are now either morphing or changing in ways that will continue to impact IT in the next year. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quest Protect Unstructured Data on File Servers, SharePoint & NAS Unstructured data is a critical security risk and compliance concern for organizations. Your company's emails, documents and spreadsheets contain readily digestible, business-critical information, and your organization is generating more, much more, of those documents every day. How are you protecting that data? Read Now! OpenStack: We can tell Amazon what to do, instead of the other way around Organizers of the OpenStack Design Summit had a slight problem when the conference got underway in earnest this week. More than 1,000 people had registered for the event, but more than 1,400 actually showed up. Read More Land O'Lakes turns to cloud for service desk Many IT organizations have neglected their help or service desks for years. But Land O'Lakes Inc. is going in a different direction, moving its help desk to ServiceNow, a cloud-based service. Read More BYOD resistance loosening but security practices lacking A survey of 650 information and security professionals about how the "bring your own device" (BYOD) trend is impacting their organizations finds one-quarter of them forbid use of personally owned devices such as smartphones and tablets on the network. However, the majority that do often lack meaningful policies or security controls related to these devices. Read More
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