Google shakes up cloud services market with another price cut

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	Google shakes up cloud services market with another price cut Google has fired back at Microsoft with cheaper cloud services, signaling another round of price cutting in an increasingly competitive market. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CommVault How big is your data footprint? Find out now and learn how to reduce it with single-platform Simpana software. Try our storage efficiencies calculator today. In this Issue Cisco bulks up branch routers for cloud Is that used iPad actually stolen? Apple creates tool for would-be buyers to check Xen Project discloses serious vulnerability that impacts virtualized servers Microsoft weaves around Office bloat complaints with Sway authoring tool How one user (successfully) managed the Amazon cloud reboot Q&A: Meet Microsoft's new Azure CTO, Mark Russinovich Ellison pushes Oracle's new cloud platform hard, but questions linger Ex-NSA director Alexander calls for new cybersecurity model White House sets 20% data center efficiency goal, but finds few takers WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation Countering Threats By Modeling "Normal" Website Behavior Check out this informative technology dossier to explore the ins and outs of using big data analysis and web-user profiling to protect your company against cyber threats. Read Now Cisco bulks up branch routers for cloud Cisco is fortifying its ISR branch routers to give users more options when accessing cloud services and backing up primary links. Read More Is that used iPad actually stolen? Apple creates tool for would-be buyers to check If you're looking to buy a used iPhone, iPad or iPod touch device, Apple is now offering an online tool to let you first check if it's been locked down by the previous owner, which could indicate that it was actually stolen or lost. Read More Xen Project discloses serious vulnerability that impacts virtualized servers Major cloud providers like Amazon and Rackspace were forced to reboot some of their servers in order to apply the patch. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Best Practices for Securing Hadoop Historically, Apache Hadoop has provided limited security capabilities, and most Hadoop implementations to date have been deployed with little thought given to security. To protect sensitive data being stored and analyzed in Hadoop, security architects should use a structured approach to security. Learn more! Microsoft weaves around Office bloat complaints with Sway authoring tool Reacting to chronic complaints that Office applications have become unwieldy with endless menus and features, Microsoft is developing a streamlined presentation application built from the ground up for mobile devices and cloud computing. Read More How one user (successfully) managed the Amazon cloud reboot Amazon Web Service's reboot of its cloud servers left many users holding their breath. Read More Q&A: Meet Microsoft's new Azure CTO, Mark Russinovich Earlier this month, Microsoft quietly appointed software architect Mark Russinovich as chief technology officer for its Azure cloud computing platform, formalizing a role he's been executing for the past several years. It was a smart appointment not the least because it may help ease any remaining concerns of system administrators reluctant to take on Microsoft's cloud platform as part of their job duties. Among the Microsoft faithful, Russinovich has serious geek credibility. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Forrester 2014 Dynamic Case Management Wave Forrester has released its 2014 Dynamic Case Management Wave, and for the second consecutive time, IBM is a leader. View Now>> Ellison pushes Oracle's new cloud platform hard, but questions linger Oracle chairman Larry Ellison has delivered another dose of hype for the vendor's cloud platform, but many customers may need more convincing before they make the leap. Read More Ex-NSA director Alexander calls for new cybersecurity model Small and medium-size U.S. companies should band together on cybersecurity systems as a way to pool limited resources against increasingly sophisticated attackers, the former director of the U.S. National Security Agency said Tuesday. Read More White House sets 20% data center efficiency goal, but finds few takers Without a carbon tax or anything that penalizes fossil fuel consumption, the federal government has little ability to influence how much energy a data center uses. But it's trying. Read More
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