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How VMware will try to shake up the cloud market this week
There have been rumors and speculation. There have been whispers and rumblings. But this week VMware is expected to release details about its plans to launch a public cloud offering, the central part of its new hybrid cloud strategy. Read More

RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap Denver

IT Roadmap Denver 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!

In this Issue

WEBCAST: IBM

Leveraging SaaS to Drive Innovation and Results
Learn how sales, finance, marketing, procurement, and supply chain leaders are leveraging SaaS to become more agile and serve the customer better. Learn More.

What's next for Ethernet?
Internet traffic will quadruple in five years and the number of mobile Internet connections will exceed the world's population by 2017, according to Cisco research. Read More

Dell dumps OpenStack and VMware for public cloud, focuses on private clouds
Dell has dramatically shifted its cloud computing strategy, canceling plans it once had to launch a public cloud service based on the OpenStack open source platform, and discontinuing a VMware-based public cloud it already has on the market. Read More

IT's new concern: The personal cloud
As personal and professional clouds converge, IT's mission to improve productivity while protecting corporate apps and data is getting tougher. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Salesforce.com

Engaging Customers in the Social Era
Many top companies now know that social media is a powerful way to listen to their customers. The most successful service teams today are not only monitoring social, they're actively participating in the conversation. Learn how to proactively engage with your customers through social channels. Learn More Now!

Former Amazon cloud engineer spills to Reddit audience
Usually Amazon Web Services, which many consider to be the leader in the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud computing market, is pretty hush-hush about the internal workings of its massive cloud. Read More

No big-bang Apps news at I/O, but some announcements merit attention
Apps, Google's flagship product for enterprise IT, had a minor presence at this week's I/O developer conference, but some announcements at the show and in prior weeks deserve attention from customers of the cloud email and collaboration suite. Read More

ServiceNow wants to be the cloud for IT
Many enterprise IT shops may be reluctant to jump head first into cloud computing. After all, there are a variety of concerns that come with using the cloud, from security to integrations with existing systems, and perhaps most scary: What the cloud will mean for your IT job. Read More

WHITE PAPER: IBM Corporation

Returns of Connections in support of Social Business
This new white paper from IBM, showcases five organizations that are strategically integrating emerging social software and tools with their existing investments and seeing measurable results in return on investment. Learn More

Addressing the 'only MPLS offers predictability and supports enterprise VoIP' myth
Having knocked down a number of the myths of why enterprises "need" MPLS over our last few columns, let's now address the most difficult – and in many ways "legitimate" – myths around MPLS. They can be worded different ways, but boil down to the claim that MPLS delivers reliable, predictable application performance for the enterprise, while using Internet connectivity does not. Read More

A sensible approach to big data
Big data is getting a lot of coverage of late and with good reason. We live in a world that is fast becoming overwhelmed by information. Ninety percent of the world's data was created in just the last two years. From software applications and social media to Internet search results and the ever-present email, the rate of data creation is growing exponentially with no signs of slowing. Read More

Newvem expands to monitor Azure and Amazon clouds
Newvem, which sells a tool that allows users to track and optimize their use of cloud computing resources, has expanded its software's functionality to monitor not just Amazon Web Services, but now Microsoft Azure now as well. Read More

The benefits of cloud-based BPM
In 2011 Gartner's Jim Sinur predicted that business process management and the cloud would be the "real thunder." He stated that moving operations to the cloud would free up money and efforts for businesses, and those organizations would be remiss to ignore BPM. Read More

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20 milestones in Ethernet's first 40 years

Reviewing the highlights of Ethernet's first four decades.

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