Amazon slashes prices up to 80% to lure public-cloud weary enterprises

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	Amazon slashes prices up to 80% to lure public-cloud weary enterprises Amazon Web Services Wednesday dropped the price of its dedicated instances, which are virtual machines allocated to individual customers and that do not run on shared hardware. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors Top 10 Benefits of Virtualization In this eGuide, Network World sister publications InfoWorld, and PC World examine some of the current uses of blade servers in today's data center, as well as how trends such as server virtualization are reshaping enterprise computing. Read Now! In this Issue Alert! Study finds Internet users heed browser warnings Tool shows real-time lag, error rates of major cloud providers Microsoft adds business intelligence to Office 365 Privacy advocates call on gov't to rein in NSA Platform as a service heats up French copyright and telecommunications watchdogs lose their teeth Why SaaS HR Software Is Ready to Take Off DBX 2013: Photos from Dropbox's first-ever developer conference Emergency broadcast equipment in US vulnerable to hackers Big changes in store for the PaaS market 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. Alert! Study finds Internet users heed browser warnings Security warnings displayed by Web browsers are far more effective at deterring risky Internet behavior than was previously believed, according to a new study. Read More Tool shows real-time lag, error rates of major cloud providers The whole idea of cloud computing is that it's supposed to provide the ability to spin up virtual resources quickly and easily. A new tool from startup Ravello Systems shows that can be done … sometimes. Read More Microsoft adds business intelligence to Office 365 Microsoft is adding a set of BI (business intelligence) tools to its hosted Office 365 service, including some capabilities not yet offered in stand-alone Microsoft software products. Read More 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 Privacy advocates call on gov't to rein in NSA A U.S. government board focused on privacy and civil rights should push Congress to rein in the U.S. National Security Agency's mass collection of telephone records and Internet communications, privacy advocates said Tuesday. Read More Platform as a service heats up The platform-as-a-service market is still tiny, but it's growing as vendors consolidate and more users decide give PaaS a try. Insider (registration required) Read More French copyright and telecommunications watchdogs lose their teeth Two French Internet watchdogs have lost their teeth following a change in the law on Tuesday and a ruling by the Constitutional Court last week. 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! Why SaaS HR Software Is Ready to Take Off It's estimated that 90 percent of Fortune 1000 companies plan to replace their human resources management software in the next four years. Many are replacing these legacy on-premises systems--some of which date back to the 1960s--with cloud-based HR systems. On top of hardware savings, enterprises using SaaS HR say they spend less on support. Read More DBX 2013: Photos from Dropbox's first-ever developer conference For a cloud storage provider, Dropbox puts on quite a show. On Tuesday it held its inaugural developer conference in San Francisco, and there was plenty of colorful activity to see. Read More Emergency broadcast equipment in US vulnerable to hackers Hardware appliances used by broadcasters to transmit emergency communications contained vulnerabilities that could be exploited over the Internet, although patches are now available. Read More Big changes in store for the PaaS market The platform-as-a-service market is likely to undergo a period of consolidation and change as big enterprise IT vendors and infrastructure-as-a-service vendors vie for a piece of the action. Insider (registration required) Read More
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