How to Survive 4 Cloud Horror Stories

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	How to Survive 4 Cloud Horror Stories For all its promise, the cloud still brings some peril (like sleepaway camp or that dirt-cheap fixer-upper on the outskirts of town). Here are four cloud horror stories – along with spoilers so you know how to make it out alive. Read More   RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: ConnectIT Free Pass: Attend ConnectIT Seminar - New York - Aug 21 Computerworld invites you to ConnectIT, a NEW peer networking forum with sessions surrounding Private Cloud, Data Management, and Storage. The event takes place on Thursday, Aug 21 at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge. Register today for free at: http://events.computerworld.com/ConnectIT.NY14 In this Issue How packet micro-shaping maximizes bandwidth utilization OneDrive Continues Microsoft Migration to Amazon Mobile Devices Brandpost: Fighting Legacy Inertia: Are Hybrid Clouds the Answer? F5 CTO: We're working hard on the transition to software HP trims its cloud offer for lighter use Glaser returns to head RealNetworks, vows to be 'video cloud' leader Rackspace bows out of IaaS market F5 CEO sees opportunity in myriad challenges facing IT WHITE PAPER: SIGMA Solutions and EMC Corporation Confront consumerization with convergence Virtualization expert Elias Khnaser spotlights the security, compliance, and governance issues that arise when enterprise users "consumerize" with shadow IT and public cloud services. And he provides a prescription for modifying this behavior with a private cloud hosted on a robust converged infrastructure. Learn More How packet micro-shaping maximizes bandwidth utilization Enterprises are increasingly virtualizing IT infrastructure by migrating storage, application, and database servers into cloud/hosted datacenters. Read More   OneDrive Continues Microsoft Migration to Amazon Mobile Devices Microsoft moves its OneDrive cloud storage service to Amazon's Kindle Fire phones and tablets. Read More   WHITE PAPER: BMC Software   Five Levers to Lower Mainframe MLC Costs This paper discusses five levers you can use to lower your mainframe MLC costs by up to 20 percent or more. Explore best practices and real-world examples of dramatic savings through a mainframe MLC optimization strategy based on higher visibility, predictability, and automation. Learn More Brandpost: Fighting Legacy Inertia: Are Hybrid Clouds the Answer? The investment community got cold feet over Amazon's recent (lack of) earnings report. For a company that's always been focused on growth at the expense of profit, what has really changed? Read More   F5 CTO: We're working hard on the transition to software F5 Networks is a veteran player in the network management market, having sold its load balancing hardware - or application delivery controllers, as it prefers to call them - to large numbers of data center customers. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Skyhigh Networks   Cloud Adoption & Risk Report Reveals Top 20 Cloud Services Based on anonymized data from over 10 million users across over 200 companies, the Skyhigh Cloud Adoption and Risk Report has become the de-facto data source on cloud adoption and risk View Now>> HP trims its cloud offer for lighter use   Hoping to lure more enterprises to its cloud, Hewlett-Packard is offering a trimmed-down basic infrastructure service for lighter workloads.Called HP Helion Managed Virtual Private Cloud Lean, the service can be put to use on things like development jobs or running collaboration software. Read More   Glaser returns to head RealNetworks, vows to be 'video cloud' leader The ex-CEO who returned as interim CEO has been made permanent. This sounds familiar. Can history repeat? Read More   Rackspace bows out of IaaS market In face of stiff price competition from Amazon and Google, Rackspace embraces its managed heritage. Is this a sign of things to come? Read More   F5 CEO sees opportunity in myriad challenges facing IT F5 Networks CEO John McAdam said Tuesday at his company's Agility conference in New York that, in essence, the future of IT is complicated, confusing and riddled with security threats - and that's a good thing."We think that's a brilliant market opportunity," McAdam said.Many of the biggest changes happening in IT - consumerization and mobility, the cloud, and so on - are consumer-driven, rather than vendor-driven, he added. That's forcing the IT industry to roll with the punches.+ ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD: Defining F5's role in software defined networks | Rackspace bows out of IaaS market +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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