Microsoft Azure tools aim to help companies manage hybrid clouds

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	Microsoft Azure tools aim to help companies manage hybrid clouds For the kick-off of its annual Tech Ed user conference, being held this week in Houston, Microsoft has released a bevy of tools and services to help administrators connect their internal operations to Microsoft's Azure cloud. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Microsoft Corporation Manage storage growth & archiving with StorSimple StorSimple hybrid cloud storage (HCS) provides primary storage, backup, archive, and disaster recovery. Combined with Windows Azure, this hybrid cloud storage solution optimizes total storage costs and data protection for enterprises. This allows you to optimize total storage costs and increase data protection and service agility. See a live demo on how StorSimple HCS works and learn how our cloud storage solution optimizes total storage costs and data protection for enterprises. Request Demo. 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Simplify VMware Backup & Recovery Simplify storage for your VMware environment. Read data protection capabilities available for VMware VADP backup and recovery, the advantages and disadvantages of different backup solutions, and how these backup methods impact both the backup and restore workflows. Learn more CIO discovers 'terrifying' reality of cloud apps running wild Rogue cloud services are ripping gaping holes in the security fabric of most companies, putting the CIO in a tough spot. But as the fallout from the Target attack shows, IT and business leaders will go down together if the breach hits the fan. Read More What $1 billion can buy HP in the cloud The chief of HP's cloud sales, Kerry Bailey, says that a push to sell an enterprise open-sourced based public and private cloud platform is "one of the biggest strategic investments HP has had." To support it the company plans to spend $1 billion in the next two years on research, product development, implementation and support to install its newly-minted HP Helion cloud platform. Read More Customer focus, innovative structure prep EMC for success Most tech companies, not surprisingly, focus on engineering. This fosters innovation, yes, but not all of it's necessary. Witness all the firms trying to become cloud service providers. EMC, however, has always put customers first. That approach will help the firm emerge largely unscathed from a changing market. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Why workloads define cloud strategies Cloud computing changes how organizations think about their business and IT strategies. As organizations define their cloud strategies, it is imperative to think about the use cases and application workloads that will run in the cloud, as these will ultimately define your cloud architecture and which solutions to deploy. View now HP to invest $1 billion in open cloud services Following a similar move by IBM, Hewlett-Packard is unifying its cloud portfolio under a single architecture and brand name, called HP Helion. Read More Google, Amazon and other online giants warn FCC on net neutrality More than 100 online firms including Google, Amazon and Facebook have signed a joint letter to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission warning of "grave consequences" if it fails to protect the openness of the Internet. Read More Dell moving Project Ophelia to consumers Dell is making updates to its Android-based, thumb-size PC called Wyse Cloud Connect -- widely known as Project Ophelia -- as the company moves to make the stick computer suitable for consumers. 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
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