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	These are cloud users' top 2 concerns As a consultant advising clients about how to prepare a cloud adoption strategy, Ahmar Abbas hears lots of positive and negative thoughts. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Bloor Research: The Economics of Cloud-Managed Integration Save time and money with cloud-managed integration Are you concerned about the cost and length of time it takes to integrate applications and data? You shouldn't be – cloud-based integration platforms dramatically speed results, increase productivity and lower costs. Learn more in this new white paper by Bloor Research. View now In this Issue Want 20GB of free DropBox storage? Buy a Dell Review: Microsoft Office 365 vs. Google Apps Cisco takes TV to the cloud ioSafe unveils massive disaster-proof storage capacity Cloud's worst-case scenario: What to do if your provider goes belly up Pixeom lets you set up cloud services without the data center Microsoft to buy Parature to bulk up Dynamics CRM Lenovo returns to personal storage, announces the Beacon Home Cloud at CES CIOs Must Balance Cloud Security and Customer Service WHITE PAPER: Limelight Networks Predictive Performance: Measuring the Digital Experience As websites get more immersive and more complex, organizations need to rethink what, and how, digital experience performance is measured. Speed (or responsiveness) is only one of several factors to consider. Learn More Want 20GB of free DropBox storage? Buy a Dell Dell announced this week a promotion that provides customers 20 GB of free cloud storage at DropBox with the purchase of a Dell tablet or personal computer. Read More Review: Microsoft Office 365 vs. Google Apps Web browser or Office suite? Microsoft's and Google's office productivity and collaboration clouds pit rich and complex against simple and lean. Read More Cisco takes TV to the cloud Cisco extended its Videoscape Internet TV services platform into the cloud by adopting OpenStack orchestration to allow content providers to offer video "as-a-service." Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks The Shortfall of Network Load Balancing Applications running across networks encounter a wide range of performance, security, and availability challenges as IT department strive to deliver fast, secure access. Read this paper to learn why applications fail, why network load balancing alone offers little protection, and why context-aware application delivery is so critical. Learn more ioSafe unveils massive disaster-proof storage capacity Every year at CES ioSafe has raised the bar for disaster-proof storage--often with dramatic demonstrations involving fire, or guns, or massive bolts of electricity. This year ioSafe scaled back the theatrics but announced a new product that lets you store massive amounts of data in a private cloud that can survive virtually anything. Read More Cloud's worst-case scenario: What to do if your provider goes belly up Last September customers of storage provider Nirvanix got what could be worst-case scenario news for a cloud user: The company was going out of business and they had to get data out, fast. Read More Pixeom lets you set up cloud services without the data center If it's not the NSA or Google, it's someone else. These days it seems there's always somebody scanning your data, looking to make a profit or to learn something about you. What if you could set up your own social network or e-commerce site that didn't require putting your information in someone else's data center? Read More WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors HP StoreOnce Extends its Industry Leadership In this competitive whitepaper, Edison Group provides an independent, third-party perspective and evaluation of HP's new B6200 StoreOnce Backup System versus EMC Data Domain. Criteria considered included scalability (including capacity and performance), high availability, architectural approach, pricing, and licensing. Learn More Microsoft to buy Parature to bulk up Dynamics CRM Businesses customers of Microsoft's Dynamics CRM will be able to offer their customers more self-service options, at least that's the idea behind the company's plan to buy up Parature, which specializes in cloud-based customer engagement. Read More Lenovo returns to personal storage, announces the Beacon Home Cloud at CES Lenovo is returning to the home storage market for the first time since it launched its IdeaCentre D400 back in 2009. The Lenovo Beacon Home Cloud Center is a two-drive NAS (network-attached storage) device that can be accessed locally or via the Internet. Read More CIOs Must Balance Cloud Security and Customer Service Cloud era brings government IT new challenge of keeping data secure while broadening user access. This will require federal CIOs to take a more granular approach to access and encryption. Read More
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