VMware faces uphill climb against Amazon, others in public cloud market

	Ubuntu impresses in test of Linux servers | Google seeks to marry desktop and cloud with new Chrome apps
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	VMware faces uphill climb against Amazon, others in public cloud market A week after VMware launched its much anticipated vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS) at its annual VMworld conference, experts have now had time to reflect on the company's cloud strategy and now have some questions. Perhaps the biggest is: Does the offering pack enough punch to take on the heavyweights in the industry, most notably Amazon Web Services? Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Mellanox Technologies Solve I/O Bottlenecks to Enable Superior Cloud Efficiency In today's virtualized data center, I/O is the key bottleneck leading to degraded application performance and poor service levels. Furthermore, infrastructure consolidation and a cloud model mandate that I/O and network resources be partitioned, secured, and automated. Read our whitepaper to learn how you can eliminate your I/O problem and run a more efficient cloud. In this Issue Ubuntu impresses in test of Linux servers Google seeks to marry desktop and cloud with new Chrome apps Microsoft adds a wing, more closets to the homes of SharePoint Online tenants Service lets companies manage Amazon Web Services encryption keys Workday rolls out Big Data Analytics module This is about as close as you can get to an Amazon private cloud using OpenStack Facebook and Parse started talking in 2011, Parse's CEO says Flexibility stressed for encryption and key management in the cloud The battle for cloud market share is just beginning WEBCAST: IBM and Intel IBM Delivers Innovation On New x86 Systems and Solutions Live Webcast: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 3:00 PM EDT You need an IT infrastructure that provides scalability, performance and efficiency tailored to the specific goals of your business. Join us on September 10 to learn more about IBM's new innovation designed to provide the performance and efficiency required for today's workloads. Register Now Ubuntu impresses in test of Linux servers We initially thought commercial goliath Red Hat might dominate in our tests, but in our final tally Ubuntu came out on top. Ubuntu delivered intuitive, uncluttered management tools, excellent hypervisor support, and transparency (commercial and open source versions are one and the same). Canonical also boasts progressive strategic alliances with large cloud providers. Ubuntu is also closely associated with the popular OpenStack platform. Read More Google seeks to marry desktop and cloud with new Chrome apps Google has wheeled out a new type of application for its Chrome browser that according to the company combines the best of desktop and cloud software. Read More Microsoft adds a wing, more closets to the homes of SharePoint Online tenants To prevent SharePoint Online customers from feeling boxed in, Microsoft wants to improve the way they upload and store documents in the platform, Office 365's cloud collaboration server. Read More 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. Service lets companies manage Amazon Web Services encryption keys KeyNexus, a division of Dark Matter Labs, today announced a secure encryption key-management service that lets organizations store, manage and audit the encryption keys they use in the cloud. Read More Workday rolls out Big Data Analytics module Workday has unveiled a new software module for its cloud-based HCM (human capital management) application that allows customers to analyze data from both Workday and third-party sources. Read More This is about as close as you can get to an Amazon private cloud using OpenStack Cloudscaling's co-founder and now CEO Randy Bias feels strongly that it's important for enterprise private clouds to be architected and act similarly to Amazon Web Services' public cloud. So, Cloudscaling uses OpenStack's cloud platform and puts AWS-like features on top of it. The third version of Cloudscaling's Open Cloud System (OCS), numbered 2.5, was released this week. Read More WEBCAST: HP & Intel® Cloud Knowledge Vault According to market research, more than 60 percent of enterprises will have adopted some form of cloud computing by 2013. Learn how your organization can benefit from the scalability, flexibility, and performance that the cloud offers through the short videos and other resources in this HP & Intel® Cloud Knowledge Vault. View Now Facebook and Parse started talking in 2011, Parse's CEO says Facebook has laid out big plans in recent months to simplify the app development process by acquiring Parse. But the social network actually had its eye on the cloud service company for years, and at one point the two considered a different partnership. Read More Flexibility stressed for encryption and key management in the cloud Virtustream, an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider focused on the enterprise, says the key to meeting demand for encryption in cloud services is to offer lots of options. Read More The battle for cloud market share is just beginning If you think the uber-competitive cloud computing market is hot right now, you haven't seen anything yet. Read More
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