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	Microsoft, IBM make cloud gains against Amazon Microsoft and IBM are gaining momentum in the cloud infrastructure services market, putting pressure on Amazon and outpacing rival Google, according to a new study. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: 8x8 Don't Become a Federal HIPAA Target! The Feds are stepping up enforcement of HIPAA, the medical privacy law. Lots of companies need to comply and don't know it. Learn how to keep your unified communications from making your organization an enforcement target. Learn More In this Issue Midyear jobs outlook: What to know about IT hiring, skills, benefits Making the case for Amazon to release its cloud revenues Internet of things devices contain high number of vulnerabilities, study finds Amazon Fire teardown pegs parts cost just below 32GB iPhone 5S INSIDER Mobile management: Making sense of your options As IoT changes how carriers make money, Ericsson is buying new smarts Amazon warming up to hybrid clouds Testbed will help clouds and networks shake hands IBM aims to disrupt supercomputing market with cloud enticements 25G Ethernet moving fast WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Lowering Management Costs to Enable the Dynamic Data Center Today's business consumers require rapid access to new tools, applications and services (mobile, social, analytics) and have become impatient with the slow application development/testing cycles and the inefficiency of today's data centers. Learn more! 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 Making the case for Amazon to release its cloud revenues The past few weeks have been earnings season, meaning publicly-traded companies reveal their latest financial results for the second quarter of the year. Read More Internet of things devices contain high number of vulnerabilities, study finds A security audit of 10 popular Internet-connected devices—components of the so-called "Internet of things"—identified an alarmingly high number of vulnerabilities. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Riverbed Optimization System: Technical Overview The Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS™) powers Riverbed's unique line of SteelHead™ application acceleration appliances and Steelhead Mobile client software. RiOS is based on technologies that solve a range of problems affecting wide area networks (WANs) and application performance. View now>> Amazon Fire teardown pegs parts cost just below 32GB iPhone 5S Parts for the 32GB Amazon Fire smartphone cost $205, just shy of the cost of parts of a similarly configured Apple iPhone 5S and well below the Samsung Galaxy S5, both with the same 32GB storage tally, according to teardowns done by IHS. Read More INSIDER Mobile management: Making sense of your options Smartphones, tablets, social networks, and cloud services are all popular, incredibly useful -- and a security risk. Read More As IoT changes how carriers make money, Ericsson is buying new smarts Ericsson plans to acquire MetraTech, a vendor of billing systems based on metadata, as service providers eye new services using the Internet of Things. Read More WHITE PAPER: XO Communications Clearing the Network Hurdle to Cloud Deployment Although enthusiasm is high among IT pros for cloud services, an IDG Research Quick Poll survey found that, in fact, the cloud is at a crossroads. Learn More Amazon warming up to hybrid clouds Two years ago at the company's very-first ever Amazon re-Invent conference in Las Vegas, the chief of Amazon's cloud division Andy Jassy gave private clouds a bad rap. Read More Testbed will help clouds and networks shake hands A network testbed being constructed just south of San Francisco will help carriers and vendors develop standards for better cloud services, the Cloudethernet Forum says. 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 25G Ethernet moving fast The second highest server Ethernet port sales and shipments may be 25G over the next five years, according to Dell'Oro Group. First will be 10G, which will account for more than 50% of the $1.7 billion in revenue and 40 million ports by 2018. Read More
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