From small to big: 5 tips for managing clouds at scale

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	From small to big: 5 tips for managing clouds at scale The enterprise adoption of cloud computing resources has taken a precarious path. Many organizations have started by running small workloads in the public cloud, reticent to use the platform for bigger mission-critical workloads. Read More   WHITE PAPER: CDW Protect Your Business & Simplify IT Restore entire virtual guests and critical virtualized Microsoft applications across VMware and Hyper-V. Learn about the features in Backup Exec V-Ray that deliver disk and tape backup and recovery across both your physical and virtual infrastructure with a single solution. Read Now In this Issue Open Source App Development Platform Aims to Ensure Privacy in the Cloud Building blocks are snapping together virtually to handle big storage Having fun with super-fast storage drives Building blocks are snapping together virtually to handle big storage Geek-themed Meme of the Week: Not Asking Too Much Edition Geek-Themed Meme of the Week Archive WHITE PAPER: Crittercism   The 2013 Mobile App Performance Management Report Most enterprises are looking for ways to leverage their investments in web technology to handle mobile app performance, but between monitoring, OS variants, screen sizes and OEMs, this can be a costly and complex approach. This 2013 Mobile APM Report highlights best practices for meeting mobile app challenges and ensuring mobile app performance. Read more! Open Source App Development Platform Aims to Ensure Privacy in the Cloud Data privacy is top of mind for users everywhere. Cloud storage and backup vendor SpiderOak plans to address privacy concerns with Crypton, an open-source Web app dev platform that crunches data in a browser-based client instead of the cloud. Read More   Building blocks are snapping together virtually to handle big storage Easy expansion, lower costs and cloud-like internal services are common themes in storage today, and startup Coho Data is playing all three with a "micro-array" architecture that it's introducing on Tuesday. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Exablox ESG Report: Exablox Re-Imagines File Storage Exablox emerged from stealth mode with a new platform (OneBlox) designed for midsized enterprises with content-intensive applications. Its scale-out system leverages commodity hardware, and has some interesting data protection features. Read now! Having fun with super-fast storage drives In my role as multimedia content editor for IDG Enterprise, I find myself with lots of video footage, which takes up a ton of storage capacity. Backing up that footage to external storage drives can take a long time, especially if you're using older transfer technologies, such as USB 2.0. Fortunately, there are some faster devices and transfer connections now available, here are two recent drives (and a docking station) that can help speed up your personal file storage transfer dilemmas: Read More   Building blocks are snapping together virtually to handle big storage Easy expansion, lower costs and cloud-like internal services are common themes in storage today, and startup Coho Data is playing all three with a "micro-array" architecture that it's introducing on Tuesday. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Mobiquity Inc.   The Five Big Lies Leaders Hear About "Going Mobile" Mobile hasn't been around long, but it has already made a tremendous impact. With such a new technology, it's not surprising that a lot of misinformation is floating around. Don't be taken in. Get the truth by reading this paper. It lays out how to develop an effective mobile initiative, one you need to succeed. Learn More Geek-themed Meme of the Week: Not Asking Too Much Edition   Here's No. 18 in our Geek-Themed Meme of the Week series and while I did not author it myself I could not possibly agree more with its sentiment. If an article does not carry a date, I'll just go ahead and assume that it's too old to matter. Next. Want more? Check out the "Geek-themed Meme of the Week Archive": Read More   Geek-Themed Meme of the Week Archive They are inescapable on the Internet. Most are awful. A few are not, so we have started publishing a selection of memes that amuse me. One every week. Here's the archive. Read More
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