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	Ubuntu takes aim at Microsoft, Google, Apple Ubuntu 13.10 is going big -- taking aim at Microsoft, Google and Apple as it competes on every platform from the cloud to the smartphone. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Microsoft Corporation Manage storage growth & archiving with StorSimple StorSimple cloud-integrated storage (CiS) provides primary storage, backup, archive, and disaster recovery. Combined with Windows Azure, this hybrid cloud storage solution optimizes total storage costs and data protection for enterprises. This allows you to optimize total storage costs and increase data protection and service agility. Download an informative eBook where you can gain insight into topics ranging from scaling architecture, to dynamically allocating and expanding capacity. Download today In this Issue Is the PaaS market as we know it dying? Google snaps up connected home company Nest for $3.2B Verizon signs-up Oracle to tackle Amazon in the cloud Get your WAN optimization delivered as a cloud service Guess where Minecraft's latest game is being hosted? Where else, but the cloud Rackspace gets a new president: Its chief customer officer Foiled! How to beat software vendors' sneaky price increases Adrian Cockcroft, who helped build Netflix's all-in cloud strategy, is becoming a VC SaaS predictions for 2014 WHITE PAPER: Citrix and Palo Alto Networks A Cloud Network with Best-in-Class Security & App Delivery Many organizations are struggling with network infrastructure that is vastly outdated, and with the rise in cloud computing, the time to upgrade is now. This guide explores two solutions that organizations use to build a network for today's evolving enterprise. Learn more Is the PaaS market as we know it dying? Cloud's platform as a service (PaaS) market hasn't even grown up yet, but already some people are saying it's doomed. Read More Google snaps up connected home company Nest for $3.2B Google announced Monday afternoon that it will acquire Nest, the manufacturer of re-imagined thermostats and other connected home gear, in a cash deal worth $3.2 billion. Read More Verizon signs-up Oracle to tackle Amazon in the cloud Verizon is building up its cloud service to take on the heavyweight of the industry - Amazon Web Services - and says it took a big step toward that direction by partnering with Oracle this week. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors Bridging the IT Gap To overcome today's IT management gap, your organization needs a fresh approach to infrastructure management. There are three key requirements for this new approach to IT management. In this paper, you'll find that three key requirements create the foundation for a management environment that is poised to meet the challenges of a new era in IT. Learn More Get your WAN optimization delivered as a cloud service WAN optimization has traditionally been a costly, hardware-heavy solution. Because of the cost and complexities of deployment, it has mostly been a solution for large companies with big budgets. Aryaka offers WAN Optimization as a Service, so now any size company with remote locations can benefit from accelerated access to enterprise or even cloud-hosted SaaS applications. Read More Guess where Minecraft's latest game is being hosted? Where else, but the cloud Minecraft is quite a popular game amongst the youngsters: An estimated 33 million copies of the game have been sold, according to Wikipedia. The latest offer from Minecraft is named Realms, which is a paid service that allows users to create a virtual world that they build themselves that is hosted by Minecraft's makers, Mojang. On the back end, Mojang is using Amazon Web Service's cloud. Read More Rackspace gets a new president: Its chief customer officer Rackspace's company motto is that it's "fanatical" about customer support. So, it may not be surprising that it has promoted its "chief customer officer" (in Rackspace lingo: CCO) Taylor Rhodes to its vacant president position. Read More 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 Foiled! How to beat software vendors' sneaky price increases Between complex licenses and the cloud, Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP have lots of ways to hike up prices. Here's how to fight back. Read More Adrian Cockcroft, who helped build Netflix's all-in cloud strategy, is becoming a VC Netflix is a poster-child cloud computing user, and perhaps the poster child of Netflix's cloud is Adrain Cokcroft(pictured). Today, Cockcroft announced on his blog that he has accepted a new position at venture capitalist firm Battery Ventures. Read More SaaS predictions for 2014 While the bulk of enterprise software is still deployed on-premises, SaaS (software as a service) continues to undergo rapid growth. Gartner has said the total market will top $22 billion through 2015, up from more than $14 billion in 2012. Read More
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