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	Microsoft acquires cloud monitoring startup MetricsHub Microsoft has acquired MetricsHub, a startup focused on technology for automating cloud performance management. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap Boston IT Roadmap Boston Focuses on Five Pillars of Technology The content-rich agenda has been redesigned and reenergized to include increased IDG content from editors you know and trust on topics such as: Security & Management, Network - From the Edge to the Core of the New Data Center, Analytics & Data Management, Cloud & Next Generation Apps, The Mobile/BYOD Enterprise, and more! Click to continue In this Issue IBM says OpenStack will be central to its future cloud strategy Upload 100X faster to Amazon's cloud with optimization service? Not quite, one analyst says Gartner: Public cloud market to grow 18.5% this year CloudFlare briefly drops off Internet deflecting DDOS attack Recent signals point to escalating jitters for IPv4 market How to use the rogue cloud to innovate the right cloud Microsoft equips Visual Studio for Office app-building Ubuntu chief says converged platforms are the future EMC touts VMAX Cloud Edition storage offering How to survive inevitable cloud failures Building trust between cloud providers and consumers WHITE PAPER: Phoenix NAP Advantages of a Hosted Private Cloud A hosted private cloud can offer many advantages for organizations looking to benefit from a secure cloud model. This white paper details how the hosted private cloud can address security and compliance concerns, deliver scale-up and scale-down capabilities, reduce costs and improve IT utilization all while minimizing loss of control by IT. Learn more. IBM says OpenStack will be central to its future cloud strategy Already a platinum member of the cloud operating system platform OpenStack, IBM officials said open source code from the project will be the foundation of the company's cloud strategy moving forward, including a new product it announced today. Read More Upload 100X faster to Amazon's cloud with optimization service? Not quite, one analyst says WAN optimization vendor Silver Peak last week announced a service that it proclaims speeds data transfers into Amazon's cloud by 100 times compared to not using Silver Peak's deduplication system. Read More Gartner: Public cloud market to grow 18.5% this year The global public cloud computing market will grow 18.5% in 2013 to $131 billion, up from $111 billion last year, research firm Gartner predicts. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Winning Strategies for Omnichannel Banking Research reveals new ways for banks to prosper. Customers are ready for omnichannel experiences. Respond now-learn how to manage the transition to omnichannel banking and reap the rewards of delivering innovative services. Read Now CloudFlare briefly drops off Internet deflecting DDOS attack CloudFlare's Juniper routers choked on a slight programming change designed to deflect a distributed denial-of-service attack, knocking the company's services off the Internet for about an hour early Sunday morning. Read More Recent signals point to escalating jitters for IPv4 market Publications discussing the transition to the IPv6 addressing system have revealed mounting anxiety regarding the economics and service impact of the global shortage of IPv4 addresses. Common concerns have implications for the top and bottom lines of ISPs, clouds, hosting services and other service providers for interconnected pathways. Taken together, the following perceptions suggest a growing appetite for transfers of increasingly scarce IPv4 addresses. Read More How to use the rogue cloud to innovate the right cloud This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach. Read More WEBCAST: Riverbed Technology Big Data to Advance Application Performance Engineering Web applications are increasingly complex with more external dependencies and remote services, add in the sheer volume of transactions, and troubleshooting performance bottlenecks is now very challenging. View Now Microsoft equips Visual Studio for Office app-building Microsoft has released a collection of tools that will help Visual Studio 2012 users more easily write add-on applications for Microsoft Office 2013, SharePoint 2013 and Microsoft's Office 365 hosted service. Read More Ubuntu chief says converged platforms are the future The convergence of devices and software platforms is being driven by the shift towards cloud computing, which will ultimately become the engine room of all modern applications, according to Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth. Read More EMC touts VMAX Cloud Edition storage offering There's an increasingly competitive market for cloud storage options that are managed by providers but hosted on customer sites, providing the security of a behind-the-firewall storage option with the convenience of a managed hardware appliance. Read More How to survive inevitable cloud failures Few people are as thoroughly engulfed in the mishmash of online-only services collectively dubbed "the cloud" as I am. Being a modern, always-mobile technology writer, I've arranged my workflow to be completely independent of my physical location. I need the ability to plop down in front of any computer in the world, and suffer from minimal disruption. Read More Building trust between cloud providers and consumers In a recent report, analyst Ray Wang proposes a cloud consumer 'bill of rights.' Wang's proposal is important because it highlights significant aspects of the client/vendor relationship in the cloud computing space. This relationship is unique because of the level of both trust and communication that must exist between client and vendor in order for cloud deployments to be successful. Read More
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