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	10 top options for streaming movies and TV Netflix, Amazon and Hulu are the heavyweights of this industry, but new players like Epix, Redbox and Vudu all offer competing services. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Benefits and challenges of hybrid cloud deployment Nearly half of enterprise organizations in Europe and the U.S. are looking to implement hybrid clouds within the next two to three years. From cost savings and IT flexibility to security and compatibility concerns, discover the benefits and challenges of taking a hybrid approach to infrastructure-as-a-service. Click to continue In this Issue Why Netflix is one of the most important cloud computing companies Friday to mark 14th annual SysAdmin Day Amazon Web Services files complaint in court over CIA contract IBM commits to contributing to open source Cloud Foundry PaaS Microsoft to offer Java as a service Amazon and Netflix: competitors who need each other Citrix edges VMware, Microsoft in VDI face-off U.S. cloud firms face backlash from NSA spy programs TwinStrata delivers data to the cloud Compromised websites at hosting companies more than doubling daily from a year ago, report finds WHITE PAPER: Verizon Building the Best Network for the Cloud In this Verizon Knowledge Vault, you'll learn from videos and other downloadable resources how to move large amounts of data reliably and securely, how to increase performance for the cloud and how to balance risk and opportunity in the cloud era with the help of Verizon Network and Cloud Solutions. Learn More Why Netflix is one of the most important cloud computing companies Netflix's Open Source Software strategy started on June 23, 2011. One of the company's senior software engineers had an idea: "At some point, I think it would be valuable to open source the Zookeeper library I've written," Jordan Zimmerman wrote to his bosses, talking about a piece of customized code he helped develop. "Does Netflix have a policy on that?" Read More Friday to mark 14th annual SysAdmin Day Contests, cake and appropriately heartfelt thanks are central to the celebration of the 14th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day this Friday. So exactly how are sysadmins and sysadmin admirers marking the occasion? What follows is a sampling of ways gleaned from Twitter and the hashtag #sysadminday. Read More Amazon Web Services files complaint in court over CIA contract Amazon Web Services has filed a complaint in a U.S. court after the Government Accountability Office sustained in part a protest by IBM against the award of a contract by the CIA for a cloud computing project. Read More WEBCAST: Egnyte The Benefits of Hybrid Cloud Sharing Security. Scalability. Control. These are just some of the many benefits of enterprise cloud file-sharing that you'll discover in this KnowledgeVault, packed with short videos, white papers and demos. View Now! IBM commits to contributing to open source Cloud Foundry PaaS IBM committed to contributing to Cloud Foundry, the open source platform as a service (PaaS) project originally developed by VMware and now part of Pivotal, which is a spinout by the virtualization company and EMC. Read More Microsoft to offer Java as a service Adding to a growing portfolio of enterprise software it offers as hosted services, Microsoft plans to add Java to its Windows Azure cloud service. Read More Amazon and Netflix: competitors who need each other Amazon.com has Amazon Instant Video. Netflix has its video streaming service. These products are two of the most popular competing video streaming options available. And they both run on Amazon's cloud computing platform. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Boost Profitability with Better Planning & Mobile Reporting This session will discuss how Ashurst, a top-tier legal service provider for private and public sector clients worldwide, was able to effectively manage organizational change and improve their profitability using IBM Business Analytics. Learn More. Citrix edges VMware, Microsoft in VDI face-off We compared hosted virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) products from Microsoft, Citrix, VMware, Oracle and Ericom and came to many conclusions, but the most important one is this: Setting up hosted desktop sessions in a BYOD world is a complex undertaking. Read More U.S. cloud firms face backlash from NSA spy programs Non-U.S. clients of American cloud hosting companies are clearly rattled by revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency collects huge amounts of customer data from Internet Service Providers and telecommunication companies. Read More TwinStrata delivers data to the cloud TwinStrata's CloudArray is a brokerage platform between enterprise networks and cloud storage services providers, and we found in testing that it's pretty clever. Read More Compromised websites at hosting companies more than doubling daily from a year ago, report finds Cyber-criminals are compromising websites at hosting companies at an ever furious rate in order to exploit them to host dangerous content and send spam via compromised accounts, according to messaging security firm Cloudmark in its threat report today. Read More
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