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Cloud tools abound. Is enterprise IT ready?

Top 10 cloud tools

Network heavy hitters to pool SDN efforts in OpenDaylight project

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April 08, 2013
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Cloud tools abound. Is enterprise IT ready?

The sky is the limit for both the number and the types of tools that will eventually help enterprise IT fully embrace the cloud, say industry analysts and cloud integration experts.

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Issue highlights

1. Top 10 cloud tools

2. Network heavy hitters to pool SDN efforts in OpenDaylight project

3. Tech workers anti-poaching suit fails to get class action status for now

4. Chinese authorities to keep close watch on Apple despite apology

5. Intel Atom chips poised for power, performance boost with Avoton

6. Oracle takes apparent step toward standardizing on a single chip design

7. IBM makes next-gen transistors that could work like the human brain

8. INSIDER So you want to be a data scientist?

9. As browsing goes mobile, Apple wins, Mozilla loses

10. The SDN incubator

11. Microsoft: Facebook Home is a copycat, Windows Phone is the 'real thing'

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Top 10 cloud tools

Cloud vendors are delivering boatloads of new tools to help enterprise IT build, buy, manage, monitor, tweak and track cloud services. These tools are designed to help IT execs free up their budgets and their staff so both can be used towards more strategic, line of business projects. READ MORE

Network heavy hitters to pool SDN efforts in OpenDaylight project

Software-defined networking, a set of technologies to help networks better adapt to user needs with less manual effort, may at last be getting the common foundation it has needed for interoperability and efficient development. READ MORE

Tech workers anti-poaching suit fails to get class action status for now

A court in California declined to certify as class action a lawsuit by workers alleging an illegal cartel formed by seven technology companies including Apple, Google and Intel. READ MORE

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Chinese authorities to keep close watch on Apple despite apology

Apple may have apologized to Chinese consumers over its warranty policies, but regulators in the country signaled they would keep a close eye on the U.S. tech giant and its approach to customer service. READ MORE

Intel Atom chips poised for power, performance boost with Avoton

After years of incremental improvements, Atom chips are poised for a big jump in performance and power efficiency with a new generation of low-processors that have shipped to server makers for testing. READ MORE

Oracle takes apparent step toward standardizing on a single chip design

Oracle's unveiling of a batch of servers based on new Sparc processors marked what some analysts think is a step toward an expected standardizing of the vendor's two families of Unix servers onto a single chip architecture. READ MORE

WHITE PAPER: F5

Drive Out Bottlenecks in the Application Delivery Chain

Fueled by users who are hyper-sensitive to delays in application delivery, organizations are seeking solutions that can help them root out and eliminate delivery latency. This paper examines the role of Application Delivery Optimization to improve application performance in the data center and beyond. Learn More!

IBM makes next-gen transistors that could work like the human brain

IBM researchers have found a way to make transistors that could be fashioned into virtual circuitry that mimics the way the human brain operates. READ MORE

INSIDER

So you want to be a data scientist?

After months of high unemployment and a still-wobbly economy, any good news from the jobs market is going to get some traction. But even that doesn't seem to fully explain the attention surrounding a suddenly very "in" job title: data scientist. READ MORE

As browsing goes mobile, Apple wins, Mozilla loses

The trend toward browsing from phones and tablets has helped some browser makers, dramatically in one case, but hurt others in the battle for usage share, data from a metrics firm showed. READ MORE

The SDN incubator

A speaker at a recent Network World event asked the crowd of 450 IT practitioners if they were familiar with software-defined networking (SDN) and only about 10% raised their hands. READ MORE

Microsoft: Facebook Home is a copycat, Windows Phone is the 'real thing'

After the Facebook Home event announcing an Android homescreen Facebook interface, Microsoft said, Hey, that's pretty much our Windows Phone campaign from 2011. READ MORE

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The Benefits of Cloud Networking

Cloud networking introduces a new way to deploy, operate, & manage distributed enterprise networks. It delivers network capabilities via a cloud infrastructure with minimal capital investment or IT resources. This paper provides details on cloud networking, the state of the cloud market & its benefits Read Now

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