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	Google and Verizon take big steps in the cloud Google and Verizon each made announcements this week that are significant in their race to catch the company many consider to still be the market leader in the IaaS public cloud: Amazon Web Services. Read More In this Issue Eight eye-openers from Salesforce.com's annual report The future of work is about people, and it's in the cloud Inside Cisco's private cloud VMware unwraps hybrid cloud desktop virtualization U.S. spy agencies adopt new IT approach Startup Digital Ocean lands $37M to take on Amazon in the cloud Tip of The Hat: Unraveling IBM's cloud plan 6 IT strategies to stay ahead of data center trends Choosing Office 365 for the Enterprise AT&T lays out 'radical' network changes with SDN WHITE PAPER: Plantronics   Unleash your UC Potential By Putting Users First What's holding back Unified Communications (UC) adoption? Too often, today's solutions are simply too hard to use. Now, survey results show high-quality audio and a simple and intuitive user experience can turbo-charge acceptance. Read this exclusive report from Plantronics and IDG to learn how you can start making the most of UC. Read now! Eight eye-openers from Salesforce.com's annual report Last week, Salesforce.com reported its fourth-quarter and year-end fiscal 2014 results, announcing a major bump in revenue and even raising its guidance significantly. But the fast-growing cloud vendor is also continuing to post significant losses as it spends big on sales, marketing and acquisitions. Read More   The future of work is about people, and it's in the cloud There was an overwhelming amount of information to process at the just completed Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2014 in Las Vegas. This conference continued the themes of the last SharePoint Conference in 2012: cloud, mobile, and social. But at this conference, and for the first time, Microsoft did not just show solutions and features that were ready for prime time. Read More   Inside Cisco's private cloud Do private clouds work? You bet they do, says Cisco, which has more than two years of experience under its belt with its Cisco IT Elastic Infrastructure Services (CITEIS) cloud. Read More   WHITE PAPER: HP 1:1 and Common Core Online Testing Learn how to properly implement standardized electronic testing which will help your district avoid common pitfalls in implementing Common Core online assessments. Download the whitepaper now. Learn More>> VMware unwraps hybrid cloud desktop virtualization   With the new VMware Horizon DaaS offering, IT organizations can deploy enterprise-class virtual desktops to a public cloud, private cloud or seamlessly mix the two with a hybrid cloud deployment. Read More   U.S. spy agencies adopt new IT approach The CIA's decision to use Amazon's cloud is part of a broader IT shake-up to make the spy business more efficient. Read More   Startup Digital Ocean lands $37M to take on Amazon in the cloud There are a lot of big names in the public cloud computing market: Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft, Verizon and Rackspace among them. And here's another company that's looking to make that list one day: Digital Ocean. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems, Cisco, & NetApp Mobile, Secure AND Cost-Efficient Desktop Virtualization Desktop virtualization offers the flexibility, security, and reliability that IT needs, but cost effectively achieving this can be challenging. Discover how a unified storage approach simplifies deployment, increases efficiency and reduces costs. Learn more Tip of The Hat: Unraveling IBM's cloud plan A Tip of the Hat to ZDNet's Larry Dignan for his incisive look at the state of IBM's cloud strategy after the unveiling of the BlueMix open cloud platform. Read More   6 IT strategies to stay ahead of data center trends Automation, virtualization, cloud computing -- these technology trends are transforming the data center and enabling companies to lower costs, increase flexibility and improve reliability. However, these shifts require IT, and their outsourcing providers, to rethink traditional strategies. Read More   Choosing Office 365 for the Enterprise Office 365 is Microsoft's cloud hosted service that effectively provides Microsoft Exchange, Lync, SharePoint, OneDrive Pro and Yammer on a monthly fee basis. Instead of organizations having to setup, configure, patch, upgrade, update, and backup systems, Microsoft takes care of all of the back-end server tasks. Read More   AT&T lays out 'radical' network changes with SDN   AT&T is remaking its infrastructure as a "user-defined network cloud" in the pursuit of greater flexibility, lower costs and faster response to user needs, the carrier's infrastructure chief said. Read More
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