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	Identity and access management as a cloud-based service eliminates time, pain and cost Gartner says that identity and access management offered as a cloud-based service (IDaaS) is an up-and-coming market for a growing need. As more enterprises utilize more applications as a service (SaaS), they need an easy way to provision users and oversee the rights that have been assigned. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: OSBC OSBC 2013 – Cloud. Data. Mobile. Open Source: It Starts Here Learn key strategies so that you can make your business more effectively data-driven. Nowhere else will you hear such a comprehensive perspective on the open source industry. The conference features content-rich sessions from industry executives on how open source technology is being used and what the implications are from a business perspective. Click to continue In this Issue IT's 2013 resolutions: Faster app delivery, but less cloud Consultant: Oracle's newest "cloud" strategy isn't cloud at all Microsoft supports unified management for Cloud OS Testing The Privacy Company Mega: 50GB free storage, 2048-bit encrypted protection Virtual networks in Windows 2012 and Azure VMs Skytap hopes to simplify adoption of Hadoop with its cloud Cloud app dev saves developers 1 hour of every 8 Running Linux apps in the cloud? Use Microsoft Azure Make way for faster, smarter, cloud-savvy networks WEBCAST: HP Storage in the Cloud Cloud will impact your storage environment. Hear what a HP Storage expert has to say. View Now! IT's 2013 resolutions: Faster app delivery, but less cloud Survey also shows greater business alignment a goal, but moreso than usual. Read More Consultant: Oracle's newest "cloud" strategy isn't cloud at all Oracle's latest advancement of its cloud computing strategy is being called out as a "faux cloud" by a consultant and author, and as the latest example of cloud-washing, or the practice of vendors misusing the ubiquitous technology term. Read More Microsoft supports unified management for Cloud OS Microsoft is upgrading System Center so businesses can manage data-center resources under a single platform regardless of whether those resources are spread out across private, public and hybrid clouds or within Microsoft's Azure cloud service. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Extend the Life of Your Storage Leveraging deduplication in backup environments yields significant advantages. The cost savings in reducing disk capacity requirements change the economics of disk-based backup. Read Now! Testing The Privacy Company Mega: 50GB free storage, 2048-bit encrypted protection Kim Dotcom's new end-to-end encrypted file storage and sharing service, Mega is being billed as The Privacy Company that "provides robust cloud storage with convenient and powerful always-on privacy. MEGA believes in your right to privacy and provides you with the technology tools to protect it. Read More Virtual networks in Windows 2012 and Azure VMs This article addresses a key function built-in to Windows 2012 that on first blush may seem like a complex technical networking feature, but that functionality has GREAT implications when extending your on-premise Windows to the cloud (like Azure VMs). You don't recognize the value of Virtual Networking in Windows 2012 until you truly start to see where the functionality is CORE to an organization. Read More Skytap hopes to simplify adoption of Hadoop with its cloud To simplify the roll-out of clusters for big data applications, Skytap is now offering pre-configured Cloudera Hadoop templates that can run in the company's public cloud. Read More WEBCAST: Aternity Webinar: Enriched End User Experience Management Are you ready to gain the proactive ability to rapidly respond to end user problems? Then you won't want to miss a special event that will show you the latest innovation in end user experience monitoring. Register today for this 30-minute webinar - Wednesday, January 23, 2013. Register now. 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 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 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
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