Google, Red Hat get cozy in the cloud

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	Google, Red Hat get cozy in the cloud Red Hat and Google today extended the integration of each other's products in their cloud offerings. Red Hat customers can now bring eligible subscriptions of the company's leading product, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) into Google's Compute Engine cloud. Google, meanwhile, today announced that virtual machines running the RHEL operating system are now generally available in Google Compute Engine (GCE). Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Open Business Conference Attend the Open Business Conference May 5-6 and discover... How tools for leveraging data have opened up almost completely. From Hadoop to Open Stack to NoSQL and technologies like MongoDB, never have so many powerful technologies been available to so many. As Big Data matures, these tools are becoming increasingly accessible. Register and attend May 5-6, 2014, The Palace Hotel, San Francisco. Click to continue In this Issue Addressing WAN edge networking complexity with SDN and NFV Amazon's Dash is a Star Trek communicator for grocery shopping How Boeing is using the cloud Nokia's Asha phones get music, photo improvements IBM' BlueMix delivers PaaS to Developers Large and Small Free online courses abound to help you bone up on Linux, SDN and more Amazon CTO Werner Vogels says APIs will rule the world Hybrid Clouds as far as the eye can see Cisco's cloud services reversal was inevitable Amazon counters Google with its own cloud price cuts WHITE PAPER: Spirent Hardware Test is the Key to Accurate Network Testing Surprisingly, many organizations are not adequately testing their networks. Network testing is crucial for any IT organization that wants to ensure availability, security and performance of applications and services running on their networks. Learn More>> Addressing WAN edge networking complexity with SDN and NFV As enterprises add mobile users, virtualized services, and public and private clouds, they're running into constraints that threaten to limit their ability to scale their network infrastructure appropriately. Contrary to what many assume, the constraints are not so much bandwidth and cost, the real culprit is complexity. Read More Amazon's Dash is a Star Trek communicator for grocery shopping A few lucky customers of the AmazonFresh grocery store will be able to order products just by speaking into the Amazon Dash, a futuristic wand that the company started offering by invitation on Friday. Read More How Boeing is using the cloud There's a lot of talk about the cloud, but how are businesses really using it? Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Come to Citrix Synergy to get the latest on cloud networking This global IT conference provides targeted business and technical content and training focused on virtualization, mobility, networking and cloud solutions. Synergy provides a customized experience featuring professional networking, information sharing and strategic insights. Learn more Nokia's Asha phones get music, photo improvements Nokia's newest Asha phones are getting an OS upgrade that adds the company's free MixRadio music service, camera features and integration with Microsoft's OneDrive cloud storage service. Read More IBM' BlueMix delivers PaaS to Developers Large and Small IBM's recent Pulse Conference in Las Vegas was like Christmas in February for developers. Whether working in midmarket or large enterprises, independent consultant or employee, there was something for everyone. The best part of this is that they are gifts that keep on giving as IBM continues to roll out what they announced at Pulse. Read More Free online courses abound to help you bone up on Linux, SDN and more Massive open online courses offer IT professionals the opportunity to learn about some of the tech industry's most in-demand and current topics for free. Available to anyone with a Web connection, MOOCs cover a range of hot tech topics including software defined networking, cloud computing, security, drone development, artificial intelligence and mobile programming. Read More WHITE PAPER: 8x8, Inc Scale Communications to Rival Big Companies Small and midsize businesses looking to minimize telecommunications spending should consider a hosted UC service. This paper highlights: • How to offload significant upfront capital expenses • On-premise vs. cloud UC tradeoffs • Side-by-side pricing comparison of hosted UC service and IP PBX Read now. Amazon CTO Werner Vogels says APIs will rule the world Werner Vogels, Amazon's high-profile chief technology officer, told a packed crowd of SXSW attendees earlier this month that the rise of open APIs are about to change the way companies around the world do business. Read More Hybrid Clouds as far as the eye can see Read More Cisco's cloud services reversal was inevitable Cisco had no choice but to enter the cloud services market this week even after pledging not to do so three years ago, according to two analysts. Read More Amazon counters Google with its own cloud price cuts The price war among major cloud providers continues, with Amazon Web Services announcing Wednesday that it is lowering the prices of a number of its cloud services, one day after Google slashed prices. Read More
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