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	Microsoft Azure enters price war with Amazon Web Services Microsoft is dropping prices for Azure Cloud Services and for Azure virtual machines to match those of Amazon Web Services and implies that it will cut the prices of other Azure offerings as well to match those of AWS. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: OSBC OSBC 2013 – Cloud. Data. Mobile. Open Source: It Starts Here Learn key strategies so that you can make your business more effectively data-driven. Nowhere else will you hear such a comprehensive perspective on the open source industry. The conference features content-rich sessions from industry executives on how open source technology is being used and what the implications are from a business perspective. Click to continue In this Issue Red Hat, Hortonworks prep OpenStack for Hadoop Top 10 cloud tools Startup Armor5 debuts with cloud-based security for mobile devices Microsoft's Azure advances may not be enough to catch Amazon Web Services Review: 4 killer cloud IDEs Gartner: Long hard climb to high level of cloud computing security Gift card SMS spam drops after FTC action, Cloudmark finds The 5 biggest online privacy threats of 2013 XO Communications enhances hosted PBX solution Microsoft Azure: Amazon Price Match with Service Consistency 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. Red Hat, Hortonworks prep OpenStack for Hadoop Merging the worlds of big data and cloud computing, Red Hat, Hortonworks and Hadoop integrator Mirantis are jointly building a software program, called Savanna, that will make it easier to deploy Apache Hadoop on an OpenStack cloud service. Read More Top 10 cloud tools New tools help IT execs cut cloud costs, optimize resources, integrate and manage cloud instances. Read More Startup Armor5 debuts with cloud-based security for mobile devices Startup Armor5 makes its debut Wednesday with a cloud-based security and management service for mobile devices that works without needing client-based software. 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. Microsoft's Azure advances may not be enough to catch Amazon Web Services Microsoft is adding to its Azure cloud service offerings and lowering prices in order to attract customers who may already have chosen another service provider, experts say, but it might not be enough. Read More Review: 4 killer cloud IDEs Surprisingly beefy, browser-based JSFiddle, Icenium, Cloud9, and Codenvy stretch from client-side JavaScript to server-side Java and Web stacks. Read More Gartner: Long hard climb to high level of cloud computing security It's still a long, hard climb to get to a high level of security in cloud computing, according to Gartner research vice president Jay Heiser, who said business and government organizations with sensitive data appear likely to hold back from cloud-based services until things improve. Read More WHITE PAPER: VMware, Cisco and NetApp Meritrust Sees Results with FlexPod and VMware Faced with an aging physical IT infrastructure, Meritrust Credit Union sought a more stable foundation for its business critical applications and for its Oracle database, which is central to its operations. Read Now! Gift card SMS spam drops after FTC action, Cloudmark finds The volume of mobile spam messages touting free gift cards sharply fell after the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed complaints in early March against eight companies, according to antispam vendor Cloudmark. Read More The 5 biggest online privacy threats of 2013 Your online life may not seem worth tracking as you browse websites, store content in the cloud, and post updates to social networking sites. But the data you generate is a rich trove of information that says more about you than you realize--and it's a tempting treasure for marketers and law enforcement officials alike. Read More XO Communications enhances hosted PBX solution XO Communications has announced enhancements to the company's hosted PBX service. The latest upgrades will provide better alternatives for multi-location business customers by offering a customer-provided bandwidth option. Read More Microsoft Azure: Amazon Price Match with Service Consistency The only constant in the cloud computing market is change, as Microsoft proves with Azure IaaS advancing it from public preview to primetime public general availability, and Microsoft is price matching Amazon. Read More
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