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	10 great new features in Microsoft Azure Microsoft woos customers to the cloud with a slew of new networking, security, storage, DR, management, and orchestration capabilities. Read More WHITE PAPER: Network Instruments 4 Key Survival Tips for Planning Your Next Big Data Project Big Data projects slam network performance. This paper offer survival tips to prepare your network before the Big Data projects hit, not after. Learn how to monitor and manage network performance for bandwidth, consistent low latency, scalable storage, processing power and security. Learn More In this Issue Amazon picked a fight with VMware in the cloud, and VMware fought back Apple's storage strategy: Clear, not cloudy Network World's 2014 State of the Network survey HP unveils Cisco-like SDN switch Amazon hopes developers will help make Fire TV a winner CloudPassage adds important security functions to virtualized environments How to make the most of an IT buyer's market 10 most powerful PaaS companies SAP unveils plan for 'simple' cloud financial app suite WEBCAST: HP Meg Whitman presents Unlocking IT with Big Data Today, the industry is at an inflection point - driven by a triple storm of Big Data, cloud, and mobility; and in this new environment, security is paramount. The New Style of IT is about how businesses and IT leverage this rapid change for enterprise growth. Learn More Amazon picked a fight with VMware in the cloud, and VMware fought back The battle for hybrid clouds is on. Read More Apple's storage strategy: Clear, not cloudy Apple has no plan to broadly compete in the online storage market, its recently-unveiled iCloud enhancements and new features notwithstanding, an analyst argued today. Read More Network World's 2014 State of the Network survey Exclusive research from Network World shows that cloud and mobility are gaining in importance. Read More WEBCAST: Dell SecureWorks What Can Security Leaders Do to Combat Cyber Threats? Training employees to understand the risk they create for your organization when they don't consider security in their day-to-day activities is a challenge for most IT and IT security organizations. Changing behavior is always difficult, especially when security awareness programs lack a well-defined approach and dedicated resources. Learn more HP unveils Cisco-like SDN switch Like Cisco Nexus 9000 devices, HP 7900 switch is aimed at physical/virtual integration and has no midplane; app extends virtual networking in OpenStack clouds. Read More Amazon hopes developers will help make Fire TV a winner Amazon.com is hoping to convince more European developers to create apps for the Fire TV streaming media player at a developer event in London. Read More CloudPassage adds important security functions to virtualized environments Borrowing a paradigm from botnets, CloudPassage puts a small agent on virtualized servers so they can accept command-and-control communications to add important security functions. This security automation platform can instantly add firewalls, configuration monitoring, event logging and more to virtual servers that come and go in an elastic compute environment. Read More WEBCAST: VMware | IBM Enhance Your Virtualization Infrastructure Virtualization technology is now expanding beyond the server compute elements to encompass networking and storage aspects as well. Learn More How to make the most of an IT buyer's market After years of fighting tooth and nail with vendors for meager price discounts or modest service-level agreements, IT has seen the tables start to turn: Sweeping changes are reshaping the vendor landscape, shifting negotiating power from stingy service providers to savvy CIOs. Read More 10 most powerful PaaS companies Platform-as-a-service is the least mature of the major cloud services categories. There are multiple types of PaaS, and vendors are playing in more than one sub-category, so it's not easy to tell the players without a scorecard. Here are 10 companies that have emerged as leaders in the PaaS market. Read More SAP unveils plan for 'simple' cloud financial app suite SAP is taking a big step into SaaS with Simple Finance, a set of applications based on its in-memory Hana Enterprise Cloud platform. Read More
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