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	IBM updates cloud strategy after CIA loss Two years after losing high-profile government work to Amazon Web Services, IBM has revamped the way it structures enterprise cloud services contracts, thanks in part to its US$2 billion acquisition of cloud services provider SoftLayer. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Why you need a next-generation firewall This white paper explores the reasons for implementing NG firewalls and lays out a path to success for overburdened IT organizations. Learn More In this Issue 5 key takeaways from Amazon's big cloud day Current bands with the techiest names Google gets a helping hand from Microsoft, IBM, Red Hat Ubuntu 14.04: Is Canonical taking on too much? How smuggling is behind the latest spec in smartphones Microsoft COO tells partners to get with the cloud program now AWS offers Marketplace software on annual subscriptions Oracle hopes to make SQL a lingua franca for big data Microsoft acquires InMage to boost Azure Site Recovery Amazon seeks US exemption to test delivery drones 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 5 key takeaways from Amazon's big cloud day Amazon Web Services continued to push the IaaS market forward today by challenging established cloud players like Box and Dropbox with the company's own document collaboration platform and rolling out new features to its public cloud focused on supporting mobile applications. Read More Current bands with the techiest names A simple question: What are the techiest/geekiest band names going these days? Read More Google gets a helping hand from Microsoft, IBM, Red Hat IBM, Microsoft, Red Hat and other IT vendors are lending a hand to Google to help build software that enterprises could use to manage their computerized workloads in the cloud. Read More WHITE PAPER: VMware Ebook: A Guide to Hybrid Cloud Hybrid cloud allows you to augment your internal data center resources, providing a flexible and cost-effective solution for a variety of use cases. This eBook presents an inside-out approach for extending your data center to the cloud. Learn more! Ubuntu 14.04: Is Canonical taking on too much? The recent release of Ubuntu 14.04 Long Term Support/LTS (Trusty Tahr) proves to us once again that it doesn't matter if you're Oracle, Microsoft, or Canonical: Bringing a fleet of products into new release revision synch is tough. Read More How smuggling is behind the latest spec in smartphones Why a return to the primitive microSD card-slot in smartphone design might beat out cloud offerings. Conveniently, book-burner regions echo smartphone growth areas. Read More Microsoft COO tells partners to get with the cloud program now Microsoft channel partners need to urgently redefine and evolve their businesses so that they can resell the company's cloud computing products, according to Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner. Read More WHITE PAPER: MovinCool Using Ceiling-Mount Air Conditioners to Cool Server Rooms A new class of self-contained ceiling-mount air conditioners offers a cost-effective solution for cooling server rooms. The compact, space-saving units fit easily above a drop ceiling, have low installation costs, do not require penetration of walls and have no outside condensing unit to maintain. Learn more! AWS offers Marketplace software on annual subscriptions Amazon Web Services is offering on its Marketplace annual subscriptions to over 90 software products, which could help customers cut software costs by over 40 percent, the Amazon.com unit said. Read More Oracle hopes to make SQL a lingua franca for big data Oracle is hoping to turn heads in the crowded data analysis market with Big Data SQL, a software tool that can run a single SQL query against Oracle's own database as well as Hadoop and NoSQL data stores. Read More Microsoft acquires InMage to boost Azure Site Recovery Microsoft plans to enhance its Azure cloud backup and recovery by integrating technology from InMage, a business continuity vendor it just acquired. Read More Amazon seeks US exemption to test delivery drones Amazon.com has asked the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration permission to test drones outdoors for use in its Prime Air package delivery service. Read More
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