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12 hybrid cloud security products to watch
Hybrid cloud security products can be delivered in a box that gets deployed on premise at a customer's site. But increasingly security vendors are offering a hybrid approach to their product portfolios whereby customers can buy a physical box or buy the security capability as a service. Here are 12 security products that you can buy for your hybrid cloud whether they run on premise, in the cloud or a little of both. Read More

WEBCAST: Quest Software, now a part of Dell

Active Directory Recovery: What You Don't Know WILL Hurt You
A complete Active Directory failure could cost your company thousands of dollars. This Quest Software webcast explores some of the causes of a forest-wide Active Directory failure, case studies on actual forest disasters, and how being proactive can help prepare or possibly avoid this catastrophe. Learn More Now!

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WEBCAST: HP

Determine Your Cloud Storage Readiness
Cloud will impact your storage environment. Hear what a HP Storage expert has to say. View Now!

PaaS Primer: What is platform as a service and why does it matter?
Even most non-techies probably have an idea of what cloud computing is by now, but when you start getting into IaaS vs. SaaS vs. PaaS even those of us in the industry can struggle. Read More

Cloud security tips and tricks
Users and security consultants familiar with the process of securing hybrid clouds have one steady piece of advice to offer: the only way to go is one step at a time. Read More

Hybrid clouds pose new security challenges
If 2013 is the year enterprises begin implementing their hybrid cloud strategies, as the experts are predicting, then it follows that this will also be the year when hybrid cloud security takes center stage. Read More

WEBCAST: CDW Corporation

Asset and Lifecycle Management that Puts You in Control
In this Webcast you will learn now to gain control by effectively deploying people, processes and tools. And you will learn how to face a software license audit successfully with asset and lifecycle management software that is comprehensive, accurate and easy to use. Learn More.

Learn to fail and avoid the next cloud outage
The total public cloud services market in 2011 was $91 billion and it will grow to $207 billion in 2016, according to Gartner. Despite this tremendous surge, large, very publicized cloud outages have everyone thinking about cloud risks. The reality, however, is that outages with large public cloud providers aren't more common than they are with a business' own private infrastructure. In fact, for many organizations, these cloud providers probably provide better uptime than they could achieve on their own. Read More

Microsoft's SkyDrive now stores 1B documents
Microsoft announced its cloud storage service now has one billion documents stored and said it has added new features to quickly save documents and get a link to share with others. Read More

The growing importance and network impact of VDI
If virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) was a racehorse, it would be one to back. Gartner predicts that hosted virtual desktop (HVD) deployments will reach 15% of professional desktop users by 2014 and Visiongain estimates that the value of the global cloud-based VDI market will reach $11 billion in 2012. But VDI places significant strain upon the WAN due to the amount of data being transferred between the server and the desktop. If the network is unable to provide adequate performance to applications, they are likely to perform poorly, or fail completely. Read More

WEBCAST: Cisco

Smart Solutions Deliver Unified Workspace Strategy
Workers today use up to four mobile devices daily--yet companies are struggling to integrate mobile devices into their business models. Learn how Cisco Unified Workspace can help meet these challenges for increased efficiency and growth. View Now

12 hybrid security products to watch
Securing a hybrid cloud is not the same thing as deploying hybrid security products. Read More

IBM gives cloud storage controls to corporate users
Amid a flurry of news surrounding the Watson supercomputer, IBM this week released major upgrades to three enterprise storage products, including a self-service software portal for end users. Read More

Cycle Computing spins up 10,600 instances in Amazon's cloud
High performance cloud computing company Cycle Computing is no stranger to spinning up massive clusters of servers in Amazon's public cloud, but this week the company says it recently ran one of its largest jobs ever, one that used 10,598 multi-core instances Read More

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