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	10 of the most useful cloud databases Big data is becoming a big deal and cloud providers want to be the place where enterprises databases live. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T Top 10 Considerations for cloud computing As business users push for faster and easier ways to roll out applications, cloud usage is on the rise. As a result, many cloud projects are initiated outside the realm of IT – without the clear requirements or measurable objectives. "Top 10 Considerations for Cloud Computing" provides a checklist for taking a more strategic approach to cloud. Download your complementary checklist In this Issue INSIDER Citrix: What kind of company is it anyway? IT workforce can't meet demand for cloud skills Cisco sacrificing one for another? INSIDER Juniper CEO Johnson talks software, the company's recent challenges and key future directions 9 IT outsourcing trends to watch in 2013 Amazon allows users to spread workloads more broadly now INSIDER Single sign-on moves to the cloud 16 of the most useful cloud management tools Add-on that forces HTTPS for popular websites released for Internet Explorer Salesforce.com ties Work.com performance management app to CRM app WHITE PAPER: Wildpackets Eliminate Packet Loss during 10G Monitoring There are a number of choices for deploying packed-based monitoring and analysis against 10G segments, but as traffic volumes grow, the limitations of many options become problematic. This EMA paper examines the issues surrounding 10G network management and monitoring with emphasis on effective packed-based instrumentation. Read More INSIDER Citrix: What kind of company is it anyway? Citrix is many different things to many people. It's a cloud company, it's a virtualization player, it's a mobile technologies vendor and it's a collaboration products provider. But according to Mark Templeton, Citrix CEO since 2001, all of that blends together and fits with where enterprise IT shops are headed. Here, speaking with IDG Enterprise Chief Content Officer John Gallant, Templeton dishes on Citrix's overall strategy, its relationships with Cisco, Microsoft and Apple, its rivalry with VMware, and its controversial take on open source cloud computing. Read More IT workforce can't meet demand for cloud skills According to a recent IDC study, demand for cloud skills will increase at six times the rate of overall IT skills, and the talent pool simply isn't big enough to accommodate the growth. Read More Cisco sacrificing one for another? Just as Cisco is reportedly looking to shed its Linksys home router business, which it acquired in 2003 for $500 million, more speculation surfaces that the company may make an even bigger splash in an effort to energize growth. Bloomberg reports that Cisco's appetite for growth-through-expansion means that storage player NetApp, virtualization partner Citrix and cloud provid 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! INSIDER Juniper CEO Johnson talks software, the company's recent challenges and key future directions Juniper Networks had a challenging 2012 as new product cycles were slow to take hold and global economic conditions took a toll on sales. The company also undertook a restructuring that saw 500 positions cut and the departure of four executive vice presidents. As the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company looks to re-energize its business, particularly with an eye towards enterprises and data centers, CEO Kevin Johnson shared his lessons learned in leading Juniper since 2008, as well as what's ahead for the company in a discussion with IDG Enterprise Chief Content Officer John Gallant and Network World Managing Editor Jim Duffy. In this installment of the IDG Enterprise CEO Interview Series, Johnson also shared his thoughts on the hot topic of software-defined networks (SDN), Juniper's role in enabling cloud and competing against the industry's 800-pound gorilla, Cisco. Read More 9 IT outsourcing trends to watch in 2013 This year the IT services industry saw a mixed bag of merger and acquisition activity (and regret), a more globally dispersed marketplace, increased focus on business outcomes, and--of course--more cloud build-up (and disappointment) than you could shake a stick at. Read More Amazon allows users to spread workloads more broadly now Amazon Web Services today announced a new feature that allows users to replicate block storage volumes across regions of the world, which will make it easier for systems to stay up in case of a cloud outage. Read More WEBCAST: Navisite Desktops as a Service: Sorting Fact From Fiction This webcast looks at the realities of taking desktops to the cloud in a reliable, manageable way. It explores the role of virtualization and hosted services while examining the intricacies of Microsoft licensing. It's a must-see event for anyone looking to leverage the realities of DaaS. View now. INSIDER Single sign-on moves to the cloud We are awash in passwords, and as the number of Web services increases, things are only going to get worse. Trying to manage all these individual passwords is a major problem for enterprise security. Many end users cope by re-using their passwords, which exposes all sorts of security holes. Read More 16 of the most useful cloud management tools One of the biggest concerns users have with public cloud resources is not knowing how much they will cost, given the pay-as-you-go model. Read More Add-on that forces HTTPS for popular websites released for Internet Explorer Cloud-based security services provider Zscaler has released an implementation for Internet Explorer of the HTTPS Everywhere browser security extension. Read More Salesforce.com ties Work.com performance management app to CRM app Salesforce.com has tied its Sales Cloud CRM (customer relationship management) application into its Work.com employee performance management software, in a combination the company says can make average salespeople better and good ones great. Read More
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