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In this Issue Google slashes Drive prices by as up to 80% Gartner: Storage spending growing again, but not quickly Gates: Microsoft products 'need more than a tune-up' Using Amazon Kindle Fire HDX tablets in the enterprise Secure file sharing in the cloud made simple 5 ways CIOs can rationalize application portfolios Don't upload health care data to Google cloud, UK groups say Microsoft's hybrid cloud -- extending the datacenter to Windows Azure in the cloud 12 hot cloud computing startups to watch: Product photo gallery Amazon increases Prime membership from $79 to $99 WHITE PAPER: 8x8, Inc SMB Disaster Recovery Strategies Small and midsize businesses are finding a silver lining in cloud communications. Geographical diversity in communications and backup can keep a business up and running no matter the disaster so long as one employee can access a mobile phone or the Internet. Learn how to get your company back in business during a disaster. Learn more >> Google slashes Drive prices by as up to 80% Google announced Thursday that it is dramatically cutting its prices for its cloud storage service by as much as 80%. Read More Gartner: Storage spending growing again, but not quickly Enterprises finally started opening their pocketbooks for external storage systems in the final quarter of last year, but economic uncertainty and the appeal of public cloud services continue to hold back the market, according to research company Gartner. Read More Gates: Microsoft products 'need more than a tune-up' Microsoft's software is due for major changes in order to transition effectively into the era of cloud computing and mobility, the company's co-founder Bill Gates says in a Rolling Stone interview. Read More WEBCAST: Ruckus Wireless Mining Profit from Location Based Services Businesses understand the high value of getting users just the right content at precisely the right time and at the right place. But delivering on such promise and potential means knowing where these people and their devices are located. That's where location-based services are rising to the challenge, as this insightful webcast will demonstrate. Learn more! Using Amazon Kindle Fire HDX tablets in the enterprise A couple of months ago, Amazon sent me its (then) new Kindle Fire HDX 8.9" tablet for review. After spending some time with the device, I wrote a piece comparing its strengths to the most popular tablet available today: Apple's iPad. Read More Secure file sharing in the cloud made simple Many enterprises want to use cloud services for file storage and sharing but are hesitant because the cloud provider may be able to access the content. AlephCloud has a service that encrypts files at their creation source. Read More 5 ways CIOs can rationalize application portfolios The pressure is mounting for CIOs and other IT leaders to help the business enable new disruptive technologies like mobile, social, cloud and big data, but many CIOs are struggling to do so because maintaining and supporting legacy applications consumes the lion's share of the budget. Here are five recommendations for rationalizing your application portfolio. Read More WEBCAST: HP and Intel® Cloud Knowledge Vault According to market research, 59 percent of enterprises are still identifying IT operations that are candidates for cloud hosting. Learn how your organization can benefit from the scalability, flexibility, and performance that the cloud offers through the short videos and other resources in this HP & Intel® Cloud Knowledge Vault. Learn More Don't upload health care data to Google cloud, UK groups say Using Google's cloud services to process health care records is a serious violation of the U.K.'s data protection act, privacy groups said in a complaint filed with the country's data protection authority. Read More Microsoft's hybrid cloud -- extending the datacenter to Windows Azure in the cloud For more than two decades, organizations built datacenters and hosted their own servers and systems within their datacenters. The role of the Information Technology (I.T.) department was to keep these systems within their control running in an optimal manner. Read More 12 hot cloud computing startups to watch: Product photo gallery Cloud management, development, security and more Read More Amazon increases Prime membership from $79 to $99 When Amazon released its earnings results this past January, company CFO Tom Szkuatak alluded to the fact that Amazon may very well have to increase the cost of its popular Amazon Prime service to offset increased costs. Read More
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