Networking World: DIY cloud: Choosing your own virtual machine image sizes

Red Hat doubles down on platform as a service (PaaS) | Inmate data paroled from mainframe

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DIY cloud: Choosing your own virtual machine image sizes
Amazon Web Services, seen by many as the market-leading infrastructure cloud computing provider, has a pretty full shelf of virtual machine (VM) image sizes for customers to spin up in its cloud -- 17 separate instance VM sizes are listed on the company's website, in fact. Read More

WEBCAST: Meraki

How MIT faced the challenges of campus wireless
After struggling to support a flood of mobile devices in a complex physical structure, MIT used Meraki to increase wireless coverage and reliability while maintaining the same rigorous security policies in place on the wired network. Read Now!

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WEBCAST: CDW Corporation

The Best Path to SaaS
Cloud computing is here to stay. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is particularly popular because it can lower cost while enabling business agility. But not all applications are suited to SaaS. In this Webcast you will learn the best applications for SaaS deployment and how to avoid SaaS pitfalls and cost overruns. Learn More.

Red Hat doubles down on platform as a service (PaaS)
In the cloud world of the future, some companies will want public cloud resources while others will want private clouds on their own premises, says Ashesh Badani, general manager of Red Hat's cloud business unit. That's why Red Hat has a cloud strategy that incorporates both public and private platform as a service (PaaS) clouds, and it has big plans for those products this year. Read More

Inmate data paroled from mainframe
There were a number of glaring IT problems facing the Illinois Department of Corrections. The answer: A cloud-based replacement system. Read More

Amazon's cloud-based data warehouse Redshift becomes generally available
Amazon Web Services has made available to all users its cloud-based data warehouse Redshift, which it pitches as a lower-cost alternative to on-premise deployments. 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.

This company is one of the first to offer business intelligence software by the hour, in the cloud
Open source business intelligence company Jaspersoft is one of the first to offer its analytics software from the cloud on a pay-by-the-hour rate, according to the company and one independent analyst. Read More

10 cloud predictions for 2013
For my annual Network World "Outlook" column, I asked the IT industry for their 2013 predictions. The industry, it turned out, wasn't shy about their opinions and I received something like 400 predictions. The range of topics covered by these predictions was extremely broad and here, as a taste of the collection, we have 10 Cloud Predictions for 2013. Read More

Salesforce.com's Heroku responds to scalability complaint
Insufficient documentation on how to performance-tune a legacy Ruby on Rails stack led to a highly publicized complaint from one of the largest customers of Salesforce.com's Heroku PaaS (platform-as-a-service), Heroku has acknowledged. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Salesforce.com

Magic Quadrant for CRM Customer Service Contact Centers
Gartner's 2012 Magic Quadrant for CRM Customer Service Contact Centers looks at vendors responding to the challenge of "any channel" customer engagement. Follow the leaders and find out why more than 100,000 customers worldwide rely on Salesforce CRM applications to transform their businesses. Read More!

Close the door for good on Web server backdoors
Regular readers of Network World know there is a crime spree taking place in cyberspace. Hackers are coming into servers at will through backdoors and directing these servers or the websites they host to perform all sorts of malicious deeds. Incapsula just introduced a cloud-based service that can detect and mitigate the problem of backdoors that are surreptitiously planted on Web servers. Read More

14 Tips for Selling Software and Services Online
Software--whether sold as a service (SaaS) or via CD or DVD--is a multibillion-dollar business, with new vendors and solutions popping up all the time. In a recent Market Trends forecast, Gartner predicted SaaS and cloud-based business application services alone would reach $32.2 billion in sales by 2016. Read More

5 best business reasons to choose a hosted UC solution
It seems we've been talking about the rise of hosted communications services for years now, but adoption has been rather light. I think one of the main reasons is that the features and functions available from the hosted providers historically weren't even close to what was available from the premise-based vendors. Read More

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12 hybrid cloud security products to watch

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.

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