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	Five Dropbox-savvy apps for iOS By all accounts, Dropbox rocks. It ranks up there with sliced bread and chocolate fountains, offering simple cloud storage that syncs across your various devices. Read More 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 In this Issue Enterprise architecture is the steak to cloud's sizzle for feds INSIDER Inside the DreamWorks data center 3 tips for making highly available systems in Amazon's cloud RightScale joins OpenStack, supports Rackspace's open cloud VMware CTO: Adapt, enable choice, or die Workday rolls out more features for large companies, aims at SAP and Oracle Microsoft planning to tie Yammer, Skype to its CRM application Amazon drops cloud prices, again The Cloud Security Alliance provides guidance for SIEMs in the cloud Amazon cites cause of recent outage, issues refunds WHITE PAPER: Airwatch Enabling Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) in the Enterprise While AirWatch strives to provide some level of direction for customers in terms of initially implementing a BYOD program, it is up to each organization's legal, human resources, and management teams to create a device management program that is right for your organization. Read Now! Enterprise architecture is the steak to cloud's sizzle for feds The U.S. Agency for International Development is the only federal agency among 27 recently surveyed by the Government Accountability Office to map out an enterprise architecture strategy, define metrics to measure its progress and actually go back to see if the plan worked. (It did.) Here's what your company can learn from USAID's enterprise architecture efforts. Read More INSIDER Inside the DreamWorks data center The data center infrastructure at DreamWorks Imagination Studios is certainly state of the art, but it doesn't make as much use of cloud, virtualization solid-state storage technologies as one might expect. Insider (registration required) Read More 3 tips for making highly available systems in Amazon's cloud Amazon Web Services makes a big deal out of its availability zones, recommending that customers use multiple AZs to build clouds that are tolerant of failures like the one the company recently experienced. Read More WHITE PAPER: RIM The CIO's Guide to Building an MDM Strategy The incredible success of mobile communications is plain to see. Anywhere you go people are on mobile devices. This trend has helped drive the evolution of the enterprise computing platform from fixed PCs to mobile devices. Read Now! RightScale joins OpenStack, supports Rackspace's open cloud RightScale, whose management platform that acts as an integrator for companies using public cloud resources, today announced its official support for the OpenStack project, and announced it will support customer deployments into Rackspace's OpenStack-powered cloud. Read More VMware CTO: Adapt, enable choice, or die To some outsiders looking in, VMware has gone through quite a change recently by purchasing two companies, embracing OpenStack enabling multi-cloud support. CTO Steve Herrod says it's all part of the broader plan. Read More Workday rolls out more features for large companies, aims at SAP and Oracle Workday on Monday unveiled a new set of enhancements to its cloud-based ERP (enterprise resource planning) software aimed at winning business from large multinational companies. Read More WHITE PAPER: Fiberlink The 10 Commandments of BYOD The rapid proliferation of mobile devices entering the workplace feels like divine intervention to many IT leaders. It's as if a voice boomed down from the mountain ordering all of the employees you support to procure as many devices as possible and connect them to corporate services en masse. BYOD was born and employees followed with fervor. Read Now! Microsoft planning to tie Yammer, Skype to its CRM application Microsoft is preparing to release an update to its Dynamics CRM Online software that will feature a new user experience as well as tie-ins to its Yammer social networking software and Skype communication platform. Read More Amazon drops cloud prices, again Amazon Web Services, fresh off an outage that brought down big-name sites such as Reddit and Imgur, today announced an 18% price reduction for its virtual machines, the 21st time the leading infrastructure as a service (IaaS) vendor has dropped prices since launching its cloud in 2006. Read More The Cloud Security Alliance provides guidance for SIEMs in the cloud The Cloud Security Alliance has developed a guidance document to help organizations evaluate cloud-based implementations of security applications, including information on evaluating and implementing Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems in the cloud. Read More Amazon cites cause of recent outage, issues refunds An unexpected bug cropped up after new hardware was installed in one of Amazon Web Service's Northern Virginia data centers, which caused the more than 12-hour outage last week that brought down popular sites such as Reddit, Imgur, AirBNB and Salesforce.com's Heroku platform, according to a postmortem issued by Amazon. Read More
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