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	Little-known Cisco open source project among contributors to OpenStack Neutron policy blueprint Multiple vendors, including an open source project within Cisco, have had a policy blueprint approved for the OpenStack cloud platform's Neutron networking component. Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Communications Business Impact from IT Agility and Data Center Automation Live Webcast Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2014, 2:00 PM EDT How are your IT peers achieving IT agility? Get the inside scoop from Forrester and Brocade on how enterprise organizations are overcoming IT agility challenges and the results they are achieving – plus get key recommendations and steps you can take to achieve similar results. View now>> In this Issue 25 geeky Mother's Day gifts Run your own cloud storage for less, EMC says White House Calls for Big Data and Cloud Privacy Overhaul Afraid of the cloud? How to handle your fears Why is a former NFL cheerleader making Google and Facebook nervous? What's behind Amazon's reported dive into the smartphone business? Oracle will allow customers to swap on-premises software for cloud services CTO says cloud services earn vote of international election monitoring group Cloud apps soar, CIOs take on new role WEBCAST: Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise From Application Chaos to Application Fluency IT and business units living in harmony, embracing application and device freedom, sounds more like science fiction than reality? But this is not only possible, it has become essential for today's business to achieve growth and remain competitive. Learn More 25 geeky Mother's Day gifts Mother's Day is coming up, and we've found 25 gifts inspired by tech, science and math for geek-minded matriarchs. Read More Run your own cloud storage for less, EMC says EMC is taking on Amazon's cloud storage service with a private cloud platform it says will cost less to use. Read More White House Calls for Big Data and Cloud Privacy Overhaul Leading tech groups welcome call for data breach law and outdated cloud privacy statute, but warn against overreaching consumer privacy legislation. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Become a Social Business in the Cloud Deepen your customer relationships. Drive operational effectiveness. Optimize your workforce. Read this solution brief to see how using IBM SmartCloud for Social Business services to become a social business can help your organization simplify, speed up and enhance interactions in practically all areas of the business. Learn More Afraid of the cloud? How to handle your fears A study released this week shows that 73% of IT executives believe cloud providers are hiding performance problems. Read More Why is a former NFL cheerleader making Google and Facebook nervous? What's so bad about one former cheerleader that Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Amazon, Gawker and BuzzFeed are all teaming up legally against her? She may finally make Websites liable for their content. Read More What's behind Amazon's reported dive into the smartphone business? An Amazon smartphone is in the news again. Amazon is already in the smartphone business, selling many manufacturers smartphones and most carriers' plans through its marketplace. Its management knows that smartphones are a dog-eat-dog commodity business, and it is no secret that Samsung and Apple are the only profitable manufacturers in the smartphone business. Read More : Logicalis Logicalis eBook: SAP HANA: The Need for Speed Without timely business insights, organizations today can suffer logistical, manufacturing, and even financial disaster in a matter of minutes. Considering the vast amounts of data being collected by these organizations, the need for real-time business analytics for big data is essential. View Now Oracle will allow customers to swap on-premises software for cloud services Oracle will allow customers to convert money they're now spending on annual support for on-premises into software subscriptions for its SaaS (software as a service) applications, in a bid to block defections to competitors such as Workday and Salesforce.com. Read More CTO says cloud services earn vote of international election monitoring group The National Democratic Institute has workers in 65 countries -- not all of them friendly. To support its growing global mission, and to improve efficiency without buying more hardware, the nonpartisan nonprofit has spent the last four years migrating to the cloud. Read More Cloud apps soar, CIOs take on new role As cloud apps become more business-critical, the CIO is emerging as the cloud services broker. In this new IT model, which is expected to expand rapidly in the next 12 months, CIOs can push cloud service providers to deliver detailed SLAs. Read More
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