The worst cloud outages of 2014 (so far)

	Amazon to acquire video game streaming site Twitch for $970 million | VMware CEO: Be brave and partner
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	The worst cloud outages of 2014 (so far) Cloud services offer a lot of advantages over their local equivalents, but like any type of technology, servers in the sky aren't immune to failure. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: 8x8 Elephant Herd in the Room: 10 Questions to Ask Your Provider Few unified communications and business phone service providers want to talk about the elephants in the room: security, reliability and compliance with HIPAA, FISMA, FIPS and other standards. Here's what to ask to pick the right provider. Here's what to ask In this Issue Amazon to acquire video game streaming site Twitch for $970 million VMware CEO: Be brave and partner Security spending gets boost from mobile, social and cloud, says Gartner Silver Peak looks to the clouds and redefines WAN Optimization Hot products at VMworld 2014 Microsoft jumps into NoSQL market with new Azure data store HyTrust, Intel team to lock down VMware virtual machines VMware prepares OpenStack for enterprise use Storage vendor sends "hangover" kit, expects VMWorld to be one big party Report: Amazon building ad system to compete with Google's WEBCAST: IBM ING Transforms DevOps to Reduce Cost and Speed Delivery ING, one of the largest banks in Europe needed to reduce the high cost of isolated, inefficient application development. They chose IBM PureApplication System to move their IT infrastructure to a cloud-based shared service model. In this Webcast, ING executive, Mark Willemse, shares the lessons ING learned from this strategic initiative. Learn more Amazon to acquire video game streaming site Twitch for $970 million Amazon will pay US$970 million to acquire Twitch, a site for live video broadcasts of people's video gaming sessions. Read More VMware CEO: Be brave and partner "Brave" is the current watchword for virtualization software giant VMware. "Brave leaders need to be thoughtful, decisive, bold," said VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger to the audience of over 22,000 at VMworld conference in San Francisco Monday this week, or who were listening in by webcast. "Life is defined by the brave acts that we take," Gelsinger said, in an unusually philosophical stance for a keynote. Read More Security spending gets boost from mobile, social and cloud, says Gartner The increased adoption of mobile, social and cloud computing is driving growth in security spending among organizations that are also becoming more aware of threats on all those fronts. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dropbox The Truth About Cloud Security "Security" is the number one issue holding business leaders back from the cloud. But does the reality match the perception? Keeping data close to home, on premises, makes business and IT leaders feel inherently more secure. But the truth is, cloud solutions can offer companies real, tangible security advantages. Learn more! Silver Peak looks to the clouds and redefines WAN Optimization The evolution of the WAN is finally underway. The primary force driving a new WAN architecture is, of course, the cloud. Building a WAN prior to the cloud was a challenging but straightforward task. Connect your branches to a central hub, have one connection to the Internet, and away you go. Optimizing the WAN with WAN optimization controllers meant a box on either side of the link, and like magic WAN-based applications would perform like LAN-based applications. Read More Hot products at VMworld 2014 See what's new at this year's VMworld conference. Read More Microsoft jumps into NoSQL market with new Azure data store Jumping into the growing NoSQL market, Microsoft has debuted a simple data store through the Azure cloud hosting service. Read More WHITE PAPER: Skyhigh Networks Checklist for Selecting Enterprise-Ready Cloud Applications To minimize risk, organizations must employ a methodology to identify and select enterprise-ready cloud services. This 21 step checklist includes the five categories of attribute to evaluate and an audit framework from the Cloud Security Alliance View Now>> HyTrust, Intel team to lock down VMware virtual machines HyTrust, in a partnership with Intel, today said its cloud security software used with VMware-based virtual machines can now ensure those VMs will only run in designated trusted locations based on what's called new "boundary controls." Read More VMware prepares OpenStack for enterprise use VMware wants to bring enterprise-class reliability to OpenStack by releasing a distribution of cloud hosting software that runs on top of the virtualization stack. Read More Storage vendor sends "hangover" kit, expects VMWorld to be one big party Storage vendor X-IO is either looking to butter up journalists covering VMWorld, or they expect the conference to just be one big party. Or maybe a little bit of both. Read More Report: Amazon building ad system to compete with Google's Amazon plans to expand its small online ad delivery business enough to take on Google's AdWords, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Read More
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