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	Hot new products from Amazon's cloud show Amazon's re:Invent conference is a hot place to show off the latest and greatest tools for the cloud. Read More WEBCAST: Internap Does Virtualization Equal Cloud? Most cloud servers run in a virtualized environment and come with a hypervisor - meaning that the physical server is shared between many users who may be slamming the server and causing resource contention. Watch this video to learn how to benefit from the cloud without virtualization or a hypervisor. View now In this Issue Amazon bashes private clouds, launches virtual desktops IBM to offer Watson supercomputer as cloud development platform Why IBM will win the war with Amazon Web Services Verizon cozies up with Cloud Foundry as PaaS market heats up Judge hits IBM in CIA cloud case Review: PowerCloud delivers Wi-Fi access point and cloud-based management for small business AWS: Our virtual desktop will succeed where others have stumbled 10 SaaS delivery companies to watch Rightscale launches analytics on top of multi-cloud management tool $68 million, 200-year, 150,000-core analytics job run on Amazon's cloud in 18 hours for $33,000 WHITE PAPER: AppNeta AppNeta Trace View - Free Trial Download Want to try AppNeta in your own application environment? Install in 5 minutes! Learn More Amazon bashes private clouds, launches virtual desktops Private clouds offer "none of the benefits" of a robust public cloud, and are only a stopgap solution perpetuated by "old-guard" IT companies such as IBM, said Andy Jassy, Amazon senior vice president who heads up Amazon Web Services. Read More IBM to offer Watson supercomputer as cloud development platform IBM is preparing to give third parties access to its Watson supercomputer with the aim of spurring the growth of applications that take advantage of the system's artificial intelligence capabilities. Read More Why IBM will win the war with Amazon Web Services Amazon dominates the cloud, but IBM, strengthened by its SoftLayer acquisition, has unleashed a marketing campaign that fires on all cylinders. Whether IBM's cloud is, in fact, better may matter less than Amazon's ability to challenge a company that's made many competitors crumble over the past 102 years. Read More WHITE PAPER: Internap The Top 5 Mistakes to Avoid in the Cloud While the cloud offers the promise of rapid scalability, flexibility and efficiency, there are important caveats to keep in mind when deploying in your organization. Learn the five most common mistakes (and how to avoid them) to help you ensure successful cloud deployment and adoption. View Now Verizon cozies up with Cloud Foundry as PaaS market heats up Verizon, which just recently launched a major overhaul to its cloud platform, today announced plans to integrate the VMware/EMC-backed Cloud Foundry open source platform as a service (PaaS) initiative into its offering. Read More Judge hits IBM in CIA cloud case IBM was accused by a federal court of "gamesmanship" in its bid for the CIA's cloud computing contract. The accusation is part of a ruling unsealed Friday. Read More Review: PowerCloud delivers Wi-Fi access point and cloud-based management for small business PowerCloud Systems has released a cloud-based Wi-Fi solution that fills the gaps between residential products that lack management and features, and enterprise systems that can be overkill in smaller organizations. Read More WEBCAST: Egnyte Consider Hybrid Approach to File-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! AWS: Our virtual desktop will succeed where others have stumbled With the launch of a new hosted virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) service called WorkSpaces, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is hoping to convert more enterprises to virtual work environments, something other IT companies have enjoyed only modest success in doing. Read More 10 SaaS delivery companies to watch Analysts and industry watchers agree that the next frontier for SaaS is setting distribution channels designed specifically for the cloud and providing mechanisms for managing multiple SaaS offerings from a single control point. These SaaS deployment advancements will likely come from a variety of sources: established SaaS vendors, start-ups providing SaaS channel enabling software, and cloud service brokerage houses. Here are 10 companies leading the charge. Read More Rightscale launches analytics on top of multi-cloud management tool RightScale today came out with new functionality for its cloud management portfolio that helps customers not only control resources from multiple public clouds but also provide analytical insight about how those resources are being used. Read More $68 million, 200-year, 150,000-core analytics job run on Amazon's cloud in 18 hours for $33,000 When Schrodinger Materials Science tools wanted to test out 200,000 different organic compounds to see which ones could be a good fit to be used in photovoltaic electricity generation, the amount of data it had to deal with was an inhibiting factor, to say the least. Read More
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