Watch out Amazon: What IBM’s $1.2B cloud investment really means

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	Watch out Amazon: What IBM's $1.2B cloud investment really means In classic IBM marketing flavor, Big Blue announced a big investment into the cloud: $1.2 billion over the next two years to significantly beef up its international data center footprint for its cloud. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: DEMO Enterprise What's trending in wearable computing and digital money? Come to DEMO Enterprise, April 3 in SF to see the best new products in wearable computing, digital money, mobile, health, internet, enterprise, big data and more. All products are handpicked by top VC experts for their innovative design and market potential. Special offer to newsletter subscribers, register and save 40%. In this Issue 50GB of free cloud storage when you download the new Box iOS app 30 years of Apple's Mac computer Is the Federal Government Ready to Embrace the Cloud? Oracle builds a bridge to Salesforce.com with new adapter IBM pumps $1.2 billion into global cloud data centers Remembering Quark and AppleTalk, Netware and Gopher Location-based services: Controversy at every level Start-up debuts 'shape-shifting' technology to protect web servers An OpenStack Primer for IT Executives WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Cloud Insight: 6 facts for defining a cloud strategy Misinformation may be the most daunting obstacle when building an IT infrastructure. To help you separate the facts from the hype, experts from HP Technology Consulting have created this informative guide to provide you with the insight you need to make decisions about successful cloud strategies. Read Now>> 50GB of free cloud storage when you download the new Box iOS app Box launched a new app for iOS, meaning it works on iPhones and iPad, and for customers who download the app within the next month, they get 50 GB of lifetime free cloud storage. Seems like a pretty good deal. Read More 30 years of Apple's Mac computer January 24, 2014 marks the 30th anniversary of the Mac. Largely introduced to the world via a Super Bowl commercial in 1984, the Mac fundamentally changed the way most people interacted with computers. Over the last three decades, the Mac has morphed and evolved into a dizzying array of form factors. Read More Is the Federal Government Ready to Embrace the Cloud? Bipartisan duo forms Cloud Computing Caucus to promote government IT transition, while leading private-sector firms convene an advisory group to help spread the gospel about the cloud. Read More WHITE PAPER: Tintri Tintri VMstore Storage for Virtualization and Cloud Tintri VMstore's storage intelligence, infrastructure insight and VM control delivers unparalleled performance and efficiency, making deployment and operation of virtualization completely predictable, and enabling higher IT productivity. Read now! Oracle builds a bridge to Salesforce.com with new adapter Kicking off an initiative to better bridge cloud services with its own software, Oracle has released an adapter that allows organizations to copy data between their Salesforce.com accounts and Oracle software. Read More IBM pumps $1.2 billion into global cloud data centers Dispelling any lingering doubt that IBM sees cloud computing as the way of the future, the company announced that it will invest US$1.2 billion this year in expanding its global cloud infrastructure. Read More Remembering Quark and AppleTalk, Netware and Gopher The Apple Mac has played an important part of my professional journalism career for at least 20 of the years that I have been a writer. One Mac or another has been my main writing machine since 1990, and has been in daily use, traveling around the world several times and my more-or-less constant work companion. It is a tool not a religion, yet I have been quite fond of the various machines that I have used. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Hybrid Cloud Computing This white paper explores the vision and the reality of cloud computing, and assesses the requirements for effectively managing today's hybrid cloud environments. View Now Location-based services: Controversy at every level Your smartphone can be a beacon telling the world where you are, with increasing precision. Is that good commerce or bad privacy, or maybe a bit of both? Read More Start-up debuts 'shape-shifting' technology to protect web servers Backed by a lineup of elite investors, start-up Shape Security comes out of stealth mode today by announcing technology it calls Shapeshifter that is said to prevent cyber-criminals from successfully attacking and compromising websites. Read More An OpenStack Primer for IT Executives OpenStack, the open source cloud computing platform, has garnered the support of more than 200 IT vendors. Enterprises embrace the platform for its flexible, hardware-agnostic architecture -- but they should realize that this modularity can come at a cost. Read More
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