25G Ethernet moving fast; midyear jobs outlook

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	25G Ethernet moving fast Twenty-five gigabit Ethernet is taking off fast. A handful of very powerful data center and cloud vendors and suppliers – Google, Microsoft, Broadcom, Arista and Mellanox – formed a consortium three weeks ago to promote and catalyze development of it. Cisco said it too is planning to join this group. Read More WHITE PAPER: CommVault 2014 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup Software Enterprise backup is among the oldest, most-performed tasks for IT professionals. Gartner provides analysis and evaluation of the leading providers that offer a range of traditional to innovative recovery capabilities. Learn More In this Issue Midyear jobs outlook: What to know about IT hiring, skills, benefits IBM aims to disrupt supercomputing market with cloud enticements Dropbox for Business grows more security, IT admin muscles BlackBerry offers BES10 as a hosted service through partners Microsoft brings two open source tools to Azure Salesforce.com launches Sales Reach for real-time selling and marketing Teradata acquires assets of Hadapt, Revelytix for big data Microsoft revenue lifted by cloud sales to businesses Oracle builds on BlueKai acquisition with Data Cloud Solidifying Microsoft Azure Security for SharePoint and SQL in the Cloud RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: ConnectIT Top Reasons to Attend ConnectIT - New York - Aug 21 Get the latest research on private cloud, data management and storage technologies. Meet with a range of solution providers to advance your data strategy. Learn about the latest solutions in a fast-paced round of presentations. Network with other data-, cloud- and storage-oriented IT professionals. Register today. Midyear jobs outlook: What to know about IT hiring, skills, benefits The second half of 2014 is looking good for job-hunting IT pros, particularly if they possess coveted skills. IT employment numbers are rising, employers are forging ahead with hiring plans, and CIOs are confident about hiring budgets. Read More IBM aims to disrupt supercomputing market with cloud enticements IBM is offering a potentially powerful incentive in its attempts to entice organizations to move supercomputing jobs to the cloud: a high-speed network communications link called InfiniBand. Read More Dropbox for Business grows more security, IT admin muscles Dropbox will continue beefing up the business version of its cloud storage and file sharing service, adding security features to shared links, full-text search capabilities and new tools for enterprise developers. Read More WHITE PAPER: PrinterLogic Printer Installer: Eliminating Print Servers Printer Installer is an on-premise web application that enables you to centrally manage and deploy Windows shared or direct iP printers. Learn More BlackBerry offers BES10 as a hosted service through partners Businesses wanting the security of BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 without the complexity of managing it onsite can now buy it as a hosted service from six BlackBerry partners. Read More Microsoft brings two open source tools to Azure Following through on promises from new CEO Satya Nadella, Microsoft continues to add support for non-Microsoft technologies, allowing them to run well on the company's Azure cloud hosting platform. Read More Salesforce.com launches Sales Reach for real-time selling and marketing Salesforce.com is combining its Pardot marketing software, sales automation application and social communities platform into a new product called Sales Reach, which it says can help salespeople nurture leads and make deals in real time. Read More WHITE PAPER: Gravitant, Inc. A Better Way to Manage and Deliver Cloud Services As more enterprises make the transition to cloud, a new type of management option is emerging: cloud services brokerage. Neovise reviews the Gravitant cloudMatrix offering, outlining the unique value it provides in the right cloud and provider Learn More Teradata acquires assets of Hadapt, Revelytix for big data Teradata has bought the assets of Revelytix and Hadapt in a bid to grow out its capabilities for the Hadoop big-data processing framework. Read More Microsoft revenue lifted by cloud sales to businesses Strong sales of cloud products to businesses helped lift Microsoft's revenue by 18 percent last quarter, though its profits declined. Read More Oracle builds on BlueKai acquisition with Data Cloud Oracle is combining its BlueKai consumer data aggregation platform with other parts of its catalog to create Oracle Data Cloud, a data-as-a-service offering aimed at companies that want to reach customers and prospects across multiple channels. Read More Solidifying Microsoft Azure Security for SharePoint and SQL in the Cloud More and more organizations are moving SharePoint and SQL workloads into Microsoft Azure in the cloud because of the simplicity of spinning up servers in the cloud, adding more capacity, decreasing capacity without having to BUY servers on-premise. Read More
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