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	Review: Box beats Dropbox -- and all the rest -- for business Box trumps Dropbox, Egnyte, Citrix ShareFile, EMC Syncplicity, and OwnCloud with rich mix of file sync, file sharing, user management, deep reporting, and enterprise integration. Read More WHITE PAPER: Boundary, Inc. Benefits of Consolidated Operations Management Points of failure are now more distributed than ever. Organizations have to manage hybrid on-premise and cloud applications. Pulling this information together in one place has been almost impossible. Read now! In this Issue Google walks away from Microsoft's IE9 As IPO nears: Do Twitter's active user claims add up? Microsoft Azure gaining ground on Amazon Web Services Cloud news: Amazon targets high-speed graphics; Rackspace boosts VM performance Who's using OpenStack? Red Hat CloudForms commandeers OpenStack for the enterprise Open Text buys cloud B2B integrator GXS in $1.17 billion deal Users reveal their biggest concerns with the cloud Application services meet up with SDN in the cloud Rackspace adds more power to hosted servers WHITE PAPER: CDW Cloud Storage and Backup The proliferation of cloud computing options has begun to change the way storage is thought about, procured and used. IT managers and departments need to think through how cloud options might fit into and complement their onsite data infrastructures. Read Now Google walks away from Microsoft's IE9 As expected, Google today declared that it has ended support for Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 browser for its own Google Apps. Read More As IPO nears: Do Twitter's active user claims add up? With one of the most highly hyped Internet IPOs only days away, an independent developer who is intimately familiar with the makeup and behavior of Twitter users says his analysis of 1 million random accounts does not support the company's claims of 215 million active monthly users and 100 million active daily users. Read More Microsoft Azure gaining ground on Amazon Web Services Amazon Web Services next week will host its second customer conference, which is sure to grab headlines and be the center of cloud industry discussion. But, as Amazon continues its run leading the IaaS market, Microsoft has slowly but surely been building up its Windows Azure cloud with the intention of giving AWS a run for its money. Read More WEBCAST: PC Connection EMC VSPEX Helps Optimize Business Performance Businesses need to be as efficient as possible today and need solutions that will help them move to the cloud when and if they are ready. Learn how EMC's VSPEX solution lets you optimize business performance and accelerate your organization's journey to the cloud. Learn More Cloud news: Amazon targets high-speed graphics; Rackspace boosts VM performance Two of the leading cloud computing providers today announced significant revisions to their on-demand virtual machines, with Rackspace rolling out new higher performing SSD-based VMs, and Amazon Web Services reducing the prices on one class of its VMs and introducing a service for graphics processing. Read More Who's using OpenStack? We don't typically track user surveys, but the annual state of the OpenStack questionnaire provides some interesting insights into this still emerging open source cloud computing platform. Here are some key takeaways. Read More Red Hat CloudForms commandeers OpenStack for the enterprise Can the OpenStack open-source private cloud software be tamed for enterprise use? Red Hat is trying: It is expanding its CloudForms management software to encompass Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack deployments. Read More WHITE PAPER: Ipanema Technologies Don't Let App Performance Problems Drag You Down Check out this exclusive IDG-Ipanema survey to learn about the far-reaching impacts of poor application performance, and what you can do about it. Learn More. Open Text buys cloud B2B integrator GXS in $1.17 billion deal Open Text is acquiring GXS Group for US$1.17 billion in a deal that will give the information management software vendor a widely used cloud-based business-to-business trading platform. Read More Users reveal their biggest concerns with the cloud I recently wrote a story about what some folks in the cloud industry see as the biggest issues holding back adoption of cloud computing. Topics like process, security and data integration all came up. But all those people are from the vendor side of the house. Read More Application services meet up with SDN in the cloud Enterprises and service providers are looking beyond collections of boxes and toward virtual data centers that are better at growing and changing, and now application services such as security and acceleration are about to fit into that picture as well. Read More Rackspace adds more power to hosted servers IT hosting company Rackspace is upgrading its OpenStack-based servers across the board with faster processors as well as more memory and network bandwidth. Read More
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