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	VMware brain drain: Former sales chief moves on to Amazon's cloud biz The exodus of executives at VMware has hastened in the past few weeks, with the latest departure being one of its top sales executives jumping ship and heading to the biggest cloud computing provider in the industry. Read More In this Issue The worst cloud outages of 2013 (so far) Keep watch: 5 cloud security cameras for your home Microsoft bulks up Azure to make it easier to build, expand cloud services Oracle and Salesforce.com's love-fest: The ripple effects Encryption practices vary widely in the cloud, survey finds Fast and furious 7: Apps primed for the gigabit Internet One year in, Yammer grows in importance to Microsoft Big Data Analytics Moves to the Cloud Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c gears up for the private cloud WEBCAST: IBM Corporation Make your business smarter with cloud-based analytics Learn how sales, finance, investment, risk, marketing, and procurement leaders are using SaaS-based business analytics to become more agile, serve the customer better, and deliver business results. Learn More. 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 Keep watch: 5 cloud security cameras for your home Cloud-based security cameras can keep watch on your home when you're not around. We tested 5 of these systems and report on our findings. Read More Microsoft bulks up Azure to make it easier to build, expand cloud services Microsoft is making it simpler for business applications in its Azure cloud to automatically turn services up and down as demand requires and for apps to incorporate features of Office 365, company executives told the Build 2013 developer conference. Read More WEBCAST: LogiAnalytics (formerly LogiXML) Create Competitive Advantage, Featuring Synchology Join this Webcast to see how they transformed their client services with an analytics tool that enabled them to quickly build and deploy web-based dashboards, reports, interactive analytics and customize security – all at a fraction of the cost of traditional BI platforms. And see a demo of Logi Analytics in action. View Now! Oracle and Salesforce.com's love-fest: The ripple effects Oracle's string of high-profile cloud-computing partnership announcements with Microsoft, Salesforce.com and NetSuite dominated tech news headlines this week. 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 Fast and furious 7: Apps primed for the gigabit Internet When gigabit Internet brings jaw-dropping speed, these apps will be ready to make good use of it. Read More 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. One year in, Yammer grows in importance to Microsoft For a product once described as Twitter with a business model, Yammer is becoming more nuanced, morphing into an important feature set that will cross over among Microsoft applications. Just as important, it continues seeing growth and popularity among businesses, where it can act as a hook that can encourage current Microsoft customers to upgrade and adopt Microsoft cloud services. Read More Big Data Analytics Moves to the Cloud What if you could store your data in the cloud and run complex queries and analytics on it where it resides, without moving it? That's the question high-performance cloud infrastructure and big data analytics specialist Joyent looks to answer with its new Joyent Manta Storage Service. Read More Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c gears up for the private cloud For the latest update of Oracle Enterprise Manager, the company has taken additional steps to help organizations set up their own private clouds, using Oracle systems, software and even non-Oracle products. Read More
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