Chicago CIO's IT revival plan includes the cloud

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	Chicago CIO's IT revival plan includes the cloud Chicago this month disclosed that it plans to use Microsoft's cloud services to deliver email and desktop applications to some 30,000 employees, part of a significant effort to improve the city's IT operations. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Elastic Caching for a Smarter Planet Live Date & Time: January 30, 2013 at 12:00 pm ET Social Media, mobile devices and new innovative infrastructures mean that more data is being used to serve end-users more than ever before. Enterprise customers must act quickly on data stored across their enterprise. Register Now In this Issue HP appoints networking expert to lead cloud unit in exec shakeup Cloud app dev saves developers 1 hour of every 8 CES 2013: Cloud-based services trending in consumer market Make way for faster, smarter, cloud-savvy networks Running Linux apps in the cloud? Use Microsoft Azure CES '13: IBM wants to connect your whole house to its cloud Cloud service partnerships could boom in 2013 Dell, Intel and Chinese venture firm back OpenStack consultancy Mirantis for $10M Cloud, mobile and BI skills to lead technology hiring in 2013 WHITE PAPER: Cisco Entering the Cloud: 4 Things You Need to Know Wondering which cloud collaboration solution is best for your business? Learn the four key factors you must consider when choosing a supplier--and find the right solution that will enable faster time to market. Read Now HP appoints networking expert to lead cloud unit in exec shakeup Attempting to solidify its cloud computing strategy, and perhaps offering a preview of the future development efforts, Hewlett-Packard has appointed its former cloud networking CTO to lead the company's Converged Cloud business unit. Read More Cloud app dev saves developers 1 hour of every 8 Evans Data Cloud Development Survey finds developers split on benefits and concerns about building in the cloud. Read More CES 2013: Cloud-based services trending in consumer market While at CES this year, we looked for but didn't find any evidence that tablet computers will replace the laptop anytime soon, but we did observe some progress in the public cloud that will enable the "connected home" and the "connected car." Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors Blade Servers eGuide 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! Make way for faster, smarter, cloud-savvy networks Network gear may not be the sexiest stuff at the International CES, but it provides the infrastructure for lots of cool gadgets and cloud services on display here. And those products will benefit from the improved networks and network devices that vendors plan to ship this year. Read More Running Linux apps in the cloud? Use Microsoft Azure From the "I guess if you live long enough, you will see everything" file, comes today's post on the public preview of VMDepot.com. VMDepot brought to us by Microsoft Open Technologies (no, that is not an oxymoron) is an online app store or marketplace where you can choose open source programs to run on Microsoft's Azure cloud. Read More CES '13: IBM wants to connect your whole house to its cloud A big theme at this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has been the connected home. There are televisions connected to the cloud; refrigerators connected to the Internet; heating, lighting and security systems connected to sensors and monitors. And IBM wants all of those devices to be connected to its cloud. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP, Microsoft & Intel On the Fast Track to Data The ongoing data explosion puts organizations in a unique situation. Not only do they operate in a world where information is power, the number of sources and volume of relevant data continues to multiply at unprecedented levels. Read Now! Cloud service partnerships could boom in 2013 Cloud service providers will seek out partnerships to offer a wider breadth of services that customers are increasingly demanding, a new report from research firm Current Analysis predicts. Read More Dell, Intel and Chinese venture firm back OpenStack consultancy Mirantis for $10M Two big names in the OpenStack movement -- Dell and Intel -- have thrown money behind a consultancy that has carved a niche out helping users deploy the open source cloud platform. Read More Cloud, mobile and BI skills to lead technology hiring in 2013 IT hiring in 2013 will focus on jobs involving cloud computing, mobile technology and business intelligence, said staffing professionals. Read More
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