Networking World: It's twilight for small in-house data centers

Equinix, NetApp, Amazon team to enable hybrid clouds | Data leakage risk rises with cloud storage services

Network World Cloud Computing

It's twilight for small in-house data centers
Virtualization, cloud services and SaaS is making it much easier to shift IT infrastructure operations to service providers, and that is exactly what many users are doing. Read More

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OSBC 2013 – Cloud. Data. Mobile. Open Source: It Starts Here
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RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: InterMapper

The #1 real-time network mapping and monitoring tool.
InterMapper provides an at-a-glance, real-time view of your network devices, services, applications, connections and traffic patterns. Drilling down on maps uncovers details needed to fix performance problems. It is an industrial strength monitoring, mapping and alerting tool that empowers network administrators to maintain healthy IT environments.

Equinix, NetApp, Amazon team to enable hybrid clouds
A new partnership will allow customers to host dedicated NetApp storage infrastructure in Equinix data centers to provide fast connections up into Amazon Web Service's cloud. Read More

Data leakage risk rises with cloud storage services
The biggest danger: Employees using apps such as Dropbox, Box and SugarSync for tucking away business documents to take home for work. Read More

YouTube change more unpopular than Congress?
When Change.org announced yesterday that it has now hosted more than 500,000 petitions, the press release listed those individuals and entities that have most often been targeted by these grassroots virtual uprisings. You might think President Obama or the public's favorite punching bag, Congress, would head the list, but you'd be wrong. Read More

WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel®

Accelerate Performance with High Performance Computing
In this eGuide, articles from Computerworld and InfoWorld offer case studies, examples and opinions of how HPC can be applied to real-world problems today, and what the future of the technology is likely to hold. Read Now!

Microsoft touts Office 365 wins, but customers want more
Microsoft is trumpeting Office 365 customer successes at its U.S. Public Sector CIO Summit on Tuesday, but some of those otherwise happy clients have a wish list of features and enhancements they'd like to see in the vendor's cloud email and collaboration suite. Read More

Geekiest/Techiest Easter Eggs
If you're like us, sometime this week (or Saturday), you'll dig out the Paas Easter Egg dye decorating kit and color your eggs one shade of pastel pink, purple, red, blue or green, and then you'll be done. But for the following designers, they went the extra mile and designed Easter Eggs that are truly techie and/or geeky. Read More

Cisco lays off 500 of workforce
Cisco this week reduced its workforce by about 500 people as the company realigns to face the advent of software-defined networking, cloud computing and its impact on routing and switching. Read More

WEBCAST: IBM

The Power of Predictive Analytics and Optimization
See how predictive analytics and optimization can enable automated decision-making to better cope with new business conditions, improve the quality and effectiveness of decisions, and learn what works best to continuously improve over time. Learn More

AWS takes aim at security conscious enterprises with new appliance
In a bid to improve data security, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched AWS CloudHSM, which uses a separate appliance to protect cryptographic keys used for encryption. Read More

Dirty smartphones: Devices keep traces of files sent to the cloud
When smartphone users upload files to cloud-based services, remnants of those files often remain on their handheld device, even if the data is meant to be stored only in the cloud, researchers have found. Read More

Social Networking Drives Business Processes at Pandora and Rosetta Stone
Pandora and Rosetta Stone have embraced social business tools and the cloud to cut costs, increase productivity and improve collaboration. Learn how these two companies overcame security concerns, gained executive buy-in and more. Read More

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