Gartner: Amazon, HP cloud SLAs are "practically useless"

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	Gartner: Amazon, HP cloud SLAs are "practically useless" Amazon Web Services, which Gartner recently named a market-leader in infrastructure as a service cloud computing, has the "dubious status of 'worst SLA (service level agreement) of any major cloud provider'" analyst Lydia Leong blogged, but HP's newly available public cloud service could be even worse. 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 Large IT departments lose cloud control What's Amazon's enterprise strategy for the cloud? The do's and don'ts of safeguarding cloud-based data with encryption Windows shops now more welcome in Amazon cloud 12 useful websites for IT security Study finds telecommuters getting jobbed Google Play now lets businesses host their own app stores HP makes public cloud service official; bolsters hypervisor support EMC's Project X may have wide impact on data centers 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! Large IT departments lose cloud control Large IT departments are losing control of cloud strategies as cloud services become more mature in the market, according to research from Capgemini. Read More What's Amazon's enterprise strategy for the cloud? Roaming the floor of Amazon Web Services' first user conference last week, it didn't look like a traditional tech show. Many of the 6,000 attendees were with startups or midsize businesses looking to learn more about AWS services or the public cloud. Read More The do's and don'ts of safeguarding cloud-based data with encryption One of the biggest stumbling blocks for companies contemplating entrusting a cloud-computing vendor with their data is the risk of unintended data exposure. A lot of data is sensitive. It might contain employees' financial information, patients' statutorily protected health information, other regulated information or proprietary intellectual property. Quite often, companies feel more control when they keep that sort of data in-house. But the risk that a cloud vendor might not handle your information as securely as you'd like can be mitigated. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors 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! Windows shops now more welcome in Amazon cloud Amazon Web Services has announced support for a handful of Windows Server applications in its public cloud, the company's latest move to attract enterprise IT shops. Read More 12 useful websites for IT security From Microsoft and Cisco to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, we look at some of the most useful IT security websites. Read More Study finds telecommuters getting jobbed About a third of telecommuters add 5 to 7 hours to their work week vs. those who work only in the office, according to new research from the University of Texas at Austin and University of Iowa. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Financial Analytics: How IT Leaders Can Help CFOs CFOs rely on their IT leaders to guide them to the tools that help them keep up with the pace of today's business - tools that help them plan, report, measure and analyze data so they can make smarter decisions and drive more predictable business outcomes. Learn More Google Play now lets businesses host their own app stores Google announced Tuesday that companies with their own in-house Android applications can now distribute them internally via the new Private Channel feature of the Play Store. Read More HP makes public cloud service official; bolsters hypervisor support HP is taking the beta label off its public cloud and making it generally available today, along some other features that are part of its converged cloud strategy. Read More EMC's Project X may have wide impact on data centers EMC plans to sell flash storage for use across data centers and is developing software to tie all those components together. Read More
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