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VMware CEO: OpenStack is not for the enterprise

Tech workers gain confidence as employment prospects lift | NSA revelations a mixed bag for private clouds

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VMware CEO: OpenStack is not for the enterprise
VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger says he doesn't expect open source cloud project OpenStack to catch on significantly in the enterprise market, instead he says it's more of a platform for service providers to build public clouds. Read More


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The Mobile Application Management Challenge
Mobility has become the norm within enterprises, and mobile apps are the key to increasing productivity and opening new opportunities. This trend is great for the enterprise as a whole, but it presents new challenges to IT. Read Now

WHITE PAPER: BlackBerry

Everything You Need in One Place
The BlackBerry® 10 Ready Program is designed to help address the important questions enterprise customers have expressed leading up to launch. Learn More

Tech workers gain confidence as employment prospects lift
Confidence levels among IT workers improved in the second quarter, buoyed by reports of employment gains in the U.S. tech sector. Read More

NSA revelations a mixed bag for private clouds
Data security fears won't fuel an exodus from public cloud services, experts say. Read More

Microsoft virtual networking upgrades keep pressure on VMware
As part of the R2 series of updates to Windows Systems Center and Windows Server 2012, Microsoft is taking a stepping up its virtual networking support, just as other cloud providers are doing the same. Read More


WEBCAST: Salesforce.com

Amazing Service for Public Service
The rise of smart phones, social media, and social interactive websites are compelling governments in nearly every country to deliver more services to more constituents with higher expectations and smaller budgets. Watch this webinar to learn immediate steps to maximize your customer service strategy. Watch now!

Cybercriminals use Google Cloud Messaging service to control malware on Android devices
Cybercriminals are controlling malware on Android devices through a Google service that enables developers to send messages to their applications, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab. Read More

What exactly is 'cloud testing' anyway?
Over the last weeks, I have found myself in several rather intense discussions about "cloud testing": what it is, what it isn't, and what it means for testing and QA professionals. The major source of confusion in these discussions usually revolves around the definition of cloud itself; if you try look up cloud computing on the Internet, you will find it hard to get a formal definition. Read More

Cloud companies dominate Forbes' Most Innovative Cos. List
Who are the most innovative companies in the world? According to Forbes.com, they live in the cloud. 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!

Microsoft's SkyDrive, Outlook.com are down for some people
Microsoft's Outlook.com web mail application and SkyDrive cloud storage service are suffering a partial outage on Wednesday. Read More

No, your data isn't secure in the cloud
While online data storage services claim your data is encrypted, there are no guarantees. And with government surveillance programs crawling the web for metadata and email, there's little doubt online privacy can exist without strong safeguards. Read More

Amazon revamps push notification service as cloud providers target mobile developers
In the fiercely competitive world of IaaS cloud computing driven by a race to the bottom on prices, service providers are constantly looking for new services that can be outsourced from the enterprise to their cloud data centers. Hoping to ride the wave of mobile computing, cloud service providers' latest target is mobile application development. Read More


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