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	Google offers 10 times as many cloud computing options, plus drops prices Google on Monday announced a significant ramp-up of its infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud offering, upping the number of virtual machine sizes available on its platform across the United States and Europe from four to 40. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Citrix Build Your Ideal Cloud Cloud computing is revolutionizing our industry, capturing the attention of business and IT leaders, and inspiring new IT strategies that will help organizations innovate, differentiate and improve efficiency. But there's more than one type of cloud—and more than one way to build it. Get valuable information on private, public, and hybrid clouds and how Citrix can help enable these cloud solutions. Visit the web page to enjoy the interactive experience and learn what options are right for your organization now! In this Issue Claranet buys cloud desktop specialist Star McAfee wants his guns back, admits poor aim Building a fortress in the cloud for your critical data What Cisco and Dell's Cloupia and Gale acquisitions mean to the future of IT INSIDER Creating a view to the cloud Windows Server 2012 now runs in Amazon's cloud What not to put in the cloud PGP Corp. co-founder's startup targets cloud authentication US, European agencies seize 132 domain names for selling counterfeit merchandise RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Ipswitch Wired & Wireless Networks? WhatsUp Gold can help! As an IT manager, you're busy taking care of the availability, performance & security of your company's IT infrastructure. But things like BYOD, rogue devices, AP over-subscription & bandwidth policy abuse can make that complex. WhatsUp Gold provides ONE dashboard to visualize, isolate & resolve wireless problems before they impact your organization. Stop being the last to know about your wireless issues- Try WhatsUp Gold free for 30 days! Claranet buys cloud desktop specialist Star Managed service provider Claranet is acquiring cloud-based desktop software provider Star Technology Services. Read More McAfee wants his guns back, admits poor aim As we enter week three of this bizarre saga, please don't forget that reportedly on-the-lam John McAfee is a "person of interest" in the shooting death of his next-door neighbor. And I say that as much as a reminder to myself as anyone, given the seemingly inappropriate entertainment value that I am deriving from McAfee's frequent blog posts and tweets. Read More Building a fortress in the cloud for your critical data Businesses are in the crosshairs as military and spy organizations around the world step up their cyber-snooping techniques, and the shift to cloud is only exacerbating the risks. How can you be sure your cloud partner is capable of protecting your data from cyberattacks? Read More WEBCAST: Teradata Big Data Done Right View this on-demand webcast to learn how to reap the benefits of big data through a practical unified architecture; how to improve performance with in-memory technology; and how to lower costs and increase scalability through cloud computing. Register now. What Cisco and Dell's Cloupia and Gale acquisitions mean to the future of IT As cloud technologies continue to disrupt the enterprise computing landscape the norms of the old are being swept a way to make room for new norms that will define the way organizations deploy and manage technology in the cloud era … at least until the next epochal shift. Read More INSIDER Creating a view to the cloud How well can you see into the cloud? For many IT professionals, the view into the cloud isn't very clear, but new techniques and tools make visibility across multiple cloud systems clearer. Read More Windows Server 2012 now runs in Amazon's cloud Enterprises can now run Windows Server 2012 on the Amazon Web Services cloud, and take advantage of improved management features and new versions of IIS and the .Net framework. Read More WEBCAST: HP Storage in the Cloud Cloud will impact your storage environment. Hear what a HP Storage expert has to say. View Now! What not to put in the cloud The cloud promises unlimited capacity, pennies per hour to operate, 4+ nines of uptime and infrastructure managed by a dedicated staff. Even technical challenges around security and compliance can be achieved and are no longer suspect. So why wouldn't you send everything to the cloud? Read More PGP Corp. co-founder's startup targets cloud authentication When Phil Dunkelberger co-founded PGP Corp. in 2002 with Jon Callas, it was to acquire the codebase for the famous encryption technology known as "Pretty Good Privacy" which had been sold to Networks Associates in 1997. That proved a good move for public-key encryption, and now Dunkelberger says his next project -- the formation of a company called Nok Nok Labs -- involves a revolutionary way to support authentication in corporate networks and the cloud. Read More US, European agencies seize 132 domain names for selling counterfeit merchandise U.S. and European agencies have seized 132 domain names that were allegedly used to sell counterfeit merchandise online. Read More
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