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Amazon lets users track their cloud-based databases with texts, email | IT service management moves to the cloud

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Cisco invests in OpenStack company
Cisco has helped fund an $8 million Series B round for Piston Cloud Computing, which is developing OpenStack cloud computing orchestration systems for enterprises. Other funders include Data Collective, Swisscom Ventures, Divergent Ventures, Hummer Winblad and True Ventures. Read More

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Amazon lets users track their cloud-based databases with texts, email
Users of Amazon Web Services' Relational Database Service (RDS) can now keep track of their databases with new notifications via email and SMS. Read More

IT service management moves to the cloud
As organizations become decreasingly skeptical about the cloud, they are increasingly willing to outsource ITSM to a SaaS provider. Doing so lowers costs, improves flexibility and easily accommodates ITIL framework principles. Read More

Cloud vendor Box launches reseller net to grab enterprise market's attention
Cloud collaboration company Box (formerly Box.net), which is now valued at more than $1 billion, is sure starting to act like a big company: It has created a partner reseller network to further extend its reach into enterprises. 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

VCE CEO says EMC, Cisco, VMware partnership unshaken by NetApp incursion
VCE said its partnership with Cisco has been unaffected by Cisco's strengthening a reseller agreement with NetApp to sell cloud architectures. Read More

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Security-as-a-service gaining popularity
Security delivered as a cloud service has several benefits, including costs and flexibility, but there are some cautions, too, adopters say. Read More

Microsoft Research re-invents the Web Bot Project
You may have heard of the Web Bot Project. It was an application that crawled news articles, blogs, forums, and other forms of Internet conversations, looking for specific keywords. Its creators, Clif High and George Ure, initially did it to look for stock market trends. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Oracle

Lower Total Cost of Ownership for Applications
Oracle Tuxedo is cost-effective, reliable, and extremely scalable (up to hundreds of thousands of transactions per second). Finally, Tuxedo protects mainframe investments through reuse of existing IT assets in modern service-oriented architecture while significantly reducing operational costs. Read More Today!

10 useful resources for the fledgling Android developer
Our look through online resources for those just starting to learn Android development. Read More

Microsoft's online safety assessment scores show failing grades globally
On your PC, you know to keep your firewall on at all times, to keep your antivirus and antispyware software updated and to run them, and to keep automatic updates on. On your mobile device, these basics are similar such as running a mobile anti-virus, installing software updates immediately upon release, and using a PIN or password to lock your device. Read More

Which Linux distro is best? Survey says: Slackware
One of the biggest ongoing challenges for Linux advocates has always been that there is such a paucity of data available to demonstrate the preferences of the people who are actually using the free and open source operating system. Read More

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