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	Apple unveils 18-megawatt solar farm to power cloud data center Apple's proposed 18-megawatt photovoltaic solar farm will power servers running in its Northern Nevada data center. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Load Balancers Are Officially Dead The time for stand-alone load balancers has passed! Download this Gartner report to learn how enterprises can utilize application delivery controllers to streamline datacenter operations and improve application performance and security. Learn More In this Issue Box CEO: IPO, beefed up collaboration features on the horizon What economists can teach us about cloud computing Hey Amazon: Where's your private cloud? The worst cloud outages of 2013 (so far) Cloud services pave the way for call center growth Big Data jumps to the cloud Box launches comprehensive Salesforce app Oracle Database 12c review: Finally, a true cloud database Encryption practices vary widely in the cloud, survey finds 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. Box CEO: IPO, beefed up collaboration features on the horizon Box, the red-hot provider of the eponymous cloud storage and file-sharing service, will boost the collaboration capabilities of its product in the next 18 months, and could become a publicly traded company next year or in 2015. Read More What economists can teach us about cloud computing William Stanley Jevons was a Victorian-era economist who explained why Britain used more coal, not less, as the resource dropped in price. Ronald Coase wrote his seminal work on why people use firms to conduct transactions back in 1937. Both help explain why this is the era of cloud computing. Read More Hey Amazon: Where's your private cloud? The public cloud computing market is becoming increasingly competitive with new entrants focusing on hybrid offerings that combine public and private clouds. That's leaving some asking the market-leading public cloud provider, Amazon Web Services, where its private cloud offering is. Read More WHITE PAPER: Salesforce.com Magic Quadrant for the CRM Customer Engagement Center This Gartner Magic Quadrant for the CRM Customer Engagement Center analyzes and ranks evaluates the vendors in this dynamic market based on Gartner's stringent and thorough market and product criteria. View Now! The worst cloud outages of 2013 (so far) From Amazon to Dropbox and Microsoft to Google, we've seen some nasty cloud outages in the first half of the year. Which company failed the worst? Read More Cloud services pave the way for call center growth One provider of contact center services in Latin America sees cloud computing as critical to competing with much larger competitors. Read More Big Data jumps to the cloud Kevin Walker's sales team was buried under information. Internal records, news reports, third-party data sources. Read More WEBCAST: Comcast Advanced Voice Solutions for Your Business How can hosted business class voice services help mid-sized business be more agile, competitive and ready for growth? Check out this new KnowledgeVault Exchange from Comcast and IDG to learn the latest the business advantages of hosted voice and Unified Communications solutions. Read now Box launches comprehensive Salesforce app Salesforce.com customers now have access on the company's AppExchange marketplace to an application that delivers the full functionality of the Box cloud storage and file sharing service within Salesforce.com's CRM suite. Read More Oracle Database 12c review: Finally, a true cloud database Pluggable databases bring a new level of efficiency and ease to database consolidation, while a wealth of other new features address performance, availability, and more. Read More Encryption practices vary widely in the cloud, survey finds A survey by Ponemon Institute of 4,205 business and IT managers around the world found that more than half now transfer sensitive or confidential data to the cloud, while taking various approaches to encrypting that data. Read More
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