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	Cloud storage users share pros and cons of leading services Dropbox, Box, OneDrive and Google Drive are among the most popular cloud services for storing, syncing and sharing files. Picking the best service for your organization can be a challenge, but this guide will help determine which cloud service is right for you. Read More WHITE PAPER: Ixia Overcoming Visibility Deficits in Virtualized Environments With up to 80% of data center traffic traveling between virtualized servers, end-to-end visibility is a major concern. This paper provides an overview of virtualized data center blind spots and offers a solution to overcome them. View now In this Issue 10 major Office 365 migration gotchas to avoid How to ensure the success of your private PaaS project Key Cisco defections in data center, OpenStack Rackspace: Not for sale anymore IBM cryptographer Gentry wins Genius Grant Oracle to release a PaaS Ericsson acquires majority stake in Apcera for cloud policy compliance HP leapfrogs Red Hat to become top contributor to OpenStack Ping Identity picks up $35 million more in venture funding Amazon to use a neighbor's data center to heat its new Seattle high-rise 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 10 major Office 365 migration gotchas to avoid Migrating to Office 365 is becoming increasingly popular among businesses both large and small. The upside of moving from an on-premises environment to one hosted online by Microsoft offers compelling benefits. But switcher beware: Early Office 365 adopters have come back from their migration path battle-worn by a slew of unexpected perils they encountered along the way. Read More How to ensure the success of your private PaaS project Building a private platform-as-a-service (PaaS) cloud that provides on-demand access to databases, middleware, presentation layer and other services can enable consumer agility, lower the cost to maintain that agility, and increase the utilization of on-premise resources. Read More Key Cisco defections in data center, OpenStack Cisco lost two vital soldiers in its data center and OpenStack platoons to competitors this week. Dom Delfino, vice president of worldwide system engineering for data center and virtualization, has jumped to SDN rival VMware while Kyle Mestery, principal engineer in Cisco's Office of the Cloud CTO, will soon surface at HP. Read More WEBCAST: Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Integrating Mobility with Unified Access Meeting mobility demands of 4500 students, faculty and staff at a university is no small task. Join this Webcast to hear the Director of Enterprise Infrastructure explain the steps Abilene Christian University took to deliver a new level of student-faculty interaction. Learn More Rackspace: Not for sale anymore This week Rackspace officials said they ended formal evaluation of mergers and acquisitions that the company had been considering. In doing so the company also named a new president, Taylor Rhodes. Read More IBM cryptographer Gentry wins Genius Grant The MacArthur Foundation's Class of 2014 "Genius Grant" winners includes a civil rights lawyer, a cartoonist, a mathematician and a jazz composer, but the one new fellow most of interest to the Network World audience is an IBM cryptographer named Craig Gentry. Read More Oracle to release a PaaS Oracle plans to announce a new platform as a service (PaaS) that will allow customers to build Java applications in the cloud, according to a report in the New York Times. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Taming the Big Data Beast As IT publications and business magazines constantly remind us these days, we live in an era of big data. Considering just how big today's burgeoning repositories of insight-laden analytical data are, it's only natural to assume that governing them poses a whole new kind of challenge. Learn more! Ericsson acquires majority stake in Apcera for cloud policy compliance Cloud software veterans created Apcera's Continuum platform with built-in policy and auditing controls. Read More HP leapfrogs Red Hat to become top contributor to OpenStack OpenStack has a new top contributor: HP Read More Ping Identity picks up $35 million more in venture funding Ping Identity has picked up another $35 million in venture funding to speed development of the next-generation of its identity and access management technology and expand the company's presence in Europe and Asia-Pacific. Read More Amazon to use a neighbor's data center to heat its new Seattle high-rise If waste heat could be considered the lemon of data center output then Amazon and a Seattle partner have come up with a way to make lemonade. Read More
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