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	HP betting big on cloud to help company turn around A few weeks ago HP's Meg Whitman braced tech watchers with sobering warnings that earnings for one of the pioneering companies of Silicon Valley may fall 10% next year, and may not grow for another two years. 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 Dilbert's Pointy-Headed Boss has his head in the cloud (again) Are you ready for a cloud security officer? Cloud startup gets cues from Amazon, Google and OpenStack to drive private cloud The Pirate Bay sails away into the cloud by virtualising its servers Cloud storage specification gets ISO approval SDN and virtual networking seen as a key to growing hybrid clouds AOL launches Alto cloud-based mail, aggregates Gmail and others Boundaries between IT outsourcing and BPO are becoming blurred: Ovum Cloud services continue to shake up IT outsourcing industry WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks New Networking Requirements for BYOD BYOD is changing the way IT addresses network access security. It requires secure onboarding of new devices, policy enforcement, and profiling. Read the benefits and considerations with BYOD, and how to deploy a unified access management solution for any wireless, wired or VPN network. Read now. Dilbert's Pointy-Headed Boss has his head in the cloud (again) Cloudwashing has become so rampant that even Dilbert's Pointy-Headed Boss has gotten into the game ... and it's not the first time for him, either. Read More Are you ready for a cloud security officer? GRC has always been a solution for big companies. Governance, Risk and Compliance pulls together lots of disparate data and seeks to give a broader picture of an organizations Risk posture, where it stands on compliance with various rules and regulations and its own thresholds for security. The problem is putting all of that together is a big job that only a big company could handle. Read More Cloud startup gets cues from Amazon, Google and OpenStack to drive private cloud OpenStack startup Cloudscaling says that for true interoperability in a hybrid cloud, it's not enough to just have API compatibility between your private and public cloud. It really helps for the fundamental architecture of the two to be analogous. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn LogMeIn Rescue: Remote Support for PCs and mobile devices. Rescue lets you remotely connect, troubleshoot and repair PCs and todays' most popular smartphones. With Rescue, IT can instantly connect, diagnose and solve. This enables IT to do more, and spend time on the tough IT cases. Do more and improve customer satisfaction and outcomes. Find out what IT knows. Do More. Try Rescue today The Pirate Bay sails away into the cloud by virtualising its servers The Pirate Bay has hit on a down-to-earth, but still Cloud-based plan to outwit the authorities. Instead of operating on proxy servers on flying drones, as it suggested back in March, the controversial BitTorrent website will transfer most of its operation to cloud providers. Read More Cloud storage specification gets ISO approval The Cloud Data Management Interface has been approved as a standard by the International Organization for Standardization, clearing the path for adoption among vendors and government agencies alike. Read More SDN and virtual networking seen as a key to growing hybrid clouds If the OpenStack Summit held this week is any indication, virtual networking is a hot IT topic. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel Top 10 Benefits of Virtualization In this eGuide, Network World sister publications InfoWorld, and PC World examine some of the current uses of blade servers in today's data center, as well as how trends such as server virtualization are reshaping enterprise computing. Read Now! AOL launches Alto cloud-based mail, aggregates Gmail and others AOL offered a limited preview of a new cloud-based email service that sorts content automatically to help combat "inbox fatigue" and doesn't force users to get a new address. Read More Boundaries between IT outsourcing and BPO are becoming blurred: Ovum What is the potential impact of cloud on propositions of platform business process outsourcing (BPO)? Will it develop and merge into business-process-as-a-service (BPaaS)? According to research firm Ovum, the answer is yes. Read More Cloud services continue to shake up IT outsourcing industry Growth in business-provisioned cloud contracts, particularly in HR, could outpace traditional IT outsourcing, rattling traditional IT service providers. Read More
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