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	Chef muscles up with Microsoft, Amazon Chef, a popular open source software program for managing the configuration settings of servers, software and other IT components, now can reach deeper into the data center with the help of some intertwined services from Microsoft, VMware and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Read More WHITE PAPER: Red Hat Modernize Your IT Infrastructure & Streamline Operations Increasing line of business demands? Shrinking IT budget? See how Red Hat can help you meet growing. Read Now In this Issue Riverbed teases with free SteelStore offering Cisco's UCS splash: some unfinished business Netflix looking to hire a 'Chaos Engineer' Hackers launch Apple ID phishing campaign playing on iCloud security worries Good vibrations will power IoT for a California offshore mussel ranch Malicious advertising hits Amazon, YouTube and Yahoo, Cisco says Cloud host DigitalOcean catches Docker fever Microsoft rolls out migration tool for porting apps into Azure cloud Debunking the top open source myths IBM secures SoftLayer with Intel trusted modules WEBCAST: Xirrus/Cisco/Aerohive/Extreme Networks/Motorola Is a Cloud-Based Wi-Fi Right for Your Enterprise? Mathew Edwards from Aerohive, Mike Leibovitz from Extreme Networks and Robin start by defining a cloud-based Wi-Fi offering. They then review the pros and cons of two different types of cloud offerings. They finish up by exploring the cost implications and key questions to ask any possible cloud-based vendors. View now Riverbed teases with free SteelStore offering Riverbed announced today that customers can now use the virtual edition of the company's SteelStore storage appliance for free, bundling the product with six months of Amazon S3 cloud storage (at 8TB per month of volume) on the house. Read More Cisco's UCS splash: some unfinished business Cisco executives say this week's launch of its expanded UCS servers is "the most significant technology announcement from Cisco this year" but there's more to come. Read More Netflix looking to hire a 'Chaos Engineer' Here's a job offering you don't see every day (asterisks mine): "Netflix is hiring a 'Chaos Engineer' … Basically, somebody to go in and f**k s**t up to prove we can recover. Read More : TIBCO Jaspersoft The Cloud BI that IT and Developers Demand Jaspersoft for AWS allows developers and IT professionals to easily and affordably build business intelligence solutions as well as embed visualizations and analytics inside applications. Pricing starts at <$1/hr in a pay-as-you-go model. Learn more Hackers launch Apple ID phishing campaign playing on iCloud security worries Phishing emails masquerade as security alerts from Apple about rogue iTunes purchases, researchers from Symantec said. Read More Good vibrations will power IoT for a California offshore mussel ranch The Internet of Things already includes cows and pigs, but it's about to branch out into another form of agriculture: an underwater ranch. Read More Malicious advertising hits Amazon, YouTube and Yahoo, Cisco says The 'Kyle and Stan' network has been running since May. Read More WHITE PAPER: CradlePoint Mitigating Security Risks at the Network's Edge This white paper provides strategies and best practices for distributed enterprises to protect their networks against vulnerabilities, threats, and malicious attacks. Learn More Cloud host DigitalOcean catches Docker fever Digital Ocean now offers CoreOS virtual machines, with built-in Docker support. Read More Microsoft rolls out migration tool for porting apps into Azure cloud One of the big problems with IaaS cloud computing is how to get apps up into the cloud. There are a variety of emerging technologies for solving this problem, but Microsoft is one of the first big vendors to acquire a company that specializes in this and today the company is making the service available in its cloud. Read More Debunking the top open source myths Today many IT executives choose open source over proprietary software for everything from cloud computing to facilitating teamwork among remote workers. Read More IBM secures SoftLayer with Intel trusted modules Intel's Trusted Execution Technology helps the IBM cloud service meet stringent compliance and auditing regulations. Read More
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