Thursday, October 11, 2012

Review: HP Cloud challenges Amazon and Google

  Looking to cloud shop? Marketplaces are the new place to do it | Which freaking PaaS should I use?
 
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Review: HP Cloud challenges Amazon and Google
HP's OpenStack-based IaaS cloud blends openness and portability with nice proprietary extras and welcome hand-holding. Read More


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Expert Advice to Mitigate BYOD Risks
Long derided as an overhyped concept, network access control (NAC) has emerged as an important solution for mitigating the risks of consumerization. Network and security managers will need NAC to retain control of the network in a "bring your own device" (BYOD) environment. Read now.

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

Looking to cloud shop? Marketplaces are the new place to do it
A few weeks ago Amazon Web Services announced a marketplace for its cloud services in which users could order a variety of applications to run on the company's cloud servers. Not surprisingly, other cloud providers are now rolling out almost the exact same feature, with Savvis being the latest. Read More

Which freaking PaaS should I use?
Most of the buzz around the cloud has centered on infrastructure as a service (IaaS). However, IaaS is no longer good enough. Sure, you can forgo buying servers and run everything virtually on Amazon's EC2 server farm. So what? You still have to manage it, and to do that you'll have a growing IT bureaucracy. Companies that want to focus on writing their code and not have to think about application servers at all are now looking to platform as a service (PaaS). Read More

VMware: Now you can send your VMs to Amazon's cloud (and then back to us)
In what some analysts are calling a dramatic shift in strategy, VMware today rolled out new features to its vCloud Suite management software that allow customers to migrate workloads to non-VMware cloud environments, including on Amazon Web Services. Read More


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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

Top 10 cloud related job titles
If you visit the popular tech-focused job site Dice.com and search for cloud computing related jobs, you'll get more than 3,800 hits. According to Alice Hill, managing director of Dice.com, that's up 72 percent over last year. Read More

Box seeks broad integration with third-party web apps, sites
Box announced on Tuesday an HTML5 framework that makes it possible for customers and other vendors to fully integrate features of its file sharing and cloud storage software into websites and enterprise applications. Read More

CIO succession plans lacking, study finds
IT pros are accustomed to handling unexpected crises, such as when hardware fails or a cloud service has an outage. But 79% of IT leaders haven't considered what will happen if they're suddenly unavailable to work, according to a survey by Robert Half Technology. Read More


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Fuel Mobile Collaboration. Secure Data & Privacy.
Read this whitepaper to learn how to enable mobile collaboration while maintaining data security and strict end user privacy whether on BYOD or a mix of corporate and employee owned devices. Read Now!

Box takes 'best of breed' approach to compete with single stacks from Oracle, IBM, HP
Looking to broaden its scope in the enterprise market, Box Tuesday rolled out a "point and click" ability for third parties to integrate the Box cloud sharing platform directly into their applications. Read More

Wireless and the cloud and virtualization: Definitions Required
Unfortunately, some of the most interesting conversation and debate at conferences like Interop New York, where I was all last week, take place away from the formal venue and instead play out in the Speakers Room or in the hallways, among speakers at the event and anyone else foolish enough to be caught in the consequential whirlwind and/or crossfire. Read More

IBM expands PureSystems line for data duties
IBM has expanded its PureSystems line of pre-integrated systems to include new models to handle business analysis and online transaction processing. Read More

Physics Nobel honors quantum computing pioneers from France and US
An American and a Frenchman have won the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on quantum optics, which could one day lead to faster computer processors, better telecommunications or more accurate timepieces. Read More

 
 
 

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