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Cisco extends Microsoft support in data center portfolio
Cisco last week extended its data center product line to support Microsoft's Windows Server 2012 hypervisor and VM management features to more tightly align their respective data center and cloud architectures for joint customers. Read More

RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco

The Cisco Unified Workspace
Trends such as mobility, virtualization, video, collaboration, knowledge management, and cloud have come to the forefront as companies struggle with how to integrate iPads, tablets, and smartphones into their business and IT models. In response, the Cisco Unified Workspace provides a solution for creating an organization-wide mobility strategy. Learn More.

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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.

New services bolster Microsoft Azure as key enterprise cloud management system
Microsoft is pushing Azure cloud service to the 5,000 attendees at its management conference this week, encouraging them to take advantage of the system now for specific tasks but to keep in mind that it fits into a full-blown hybrid-cloud framework that may become more attractive to them over time. Read More

Top 10 cloud tools
New tools help IT execs cut cloud costs, optimize resources, integrate and manage cloud instances. Read More

OpenStack gains momentum as vendors give Grizzly a bear hug
HP, NetApp, and an array of cloud startups roll out new cloud offerings built around OpenStack Grizzly. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Phoenix NAP

Eliminate Virtualization Management Challenges
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.

Why servers should be seen like cows, not puppies
Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud computing is fundamentally about managing hardware resources, and the CTO of OpenStack company Piston Cloud Computing has an interesting way to think about the issue. Read More

Rackspace challenges lawsuit-happy patent holder
Cloud hosting provider Rackspace Hosting is striking back against patent holder Rotatable Technologies, a Texas company that has filed patent infringement cases against more than a dozen companies in the past year. Read More

Two-factor authentication ready to roll out at Microsoft
When Microsoft acquired PhoneFactor last fall, the handwriting was on the wall for the future of two-factor authentication for the company's consumer cloud offerings. Now it appears that handwriting is about to become a reality. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Netscout Systems Inc.

Service-Oriented Performance Management Strategy
This white paper is to help IT organizations adopt a management methodology that enables them to improve the user experience by focusing on service delivery management. Learn More.

VMware sells Protect product family to LANDesk
To further its concentration on software-defined data centers, hybrid clouds and end-user computing, VMware has sold the Protect product family to LANDesk. Read More

Rackspace to offer OpenStack deployments for service providers
Expanding beyond its own OpenStack hosted services, Rackspace is offering to build OpenStack deployments for other hosting providers as well, such as telecommunication companies. Read More

Will ONS Help SDN Cross the Chasm?
The RSA security conference was once limited to discussions around encryption algorithms and cryptography attracting a limited and highly technical audience. Likewise, VMworld was once a Mecca for software developers and testers only. These descriptions represent ancient history – RSA covers the entire cybersecurity spectrum while VMworld has become a nexus around cloud computing. Read More

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