Microsoft goes all-in on hybrid cloud with Azure-in-a-box

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	Microsoft goes all-in on hybrid cloud with Azure-in-a-box Microsoft Monday doubled down on hybrid clouds by unveiling an on-premises system that syncs up with Azure public cloud services. With its new Cloud Platform System (CPS), Microsoft is attempting to differentiate itself vs. rivals Amazon Web Services and Google. Read More WEBCAST: CenturyLink Effective collaboration = exceptional customer engagement Live on 10/21. IT leaders are constantly required to do more with less, but even as new digital technologies now play the most vital role in engaging customers, many IT groups spend 75% of their resources on legacy application maintenance. Join us to learn how IT organizations can pivot from maintenance to creation and innovation. View now In this Issue First products from Apple-IBM deal to come next month Microsoft (hearts) Linux, for Azure's sake Dropbox used for convincing phishing attack Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst on the impact of cloud and mobile Is your Ethernet fast enough? Four new speeds are in the works IBM earnings slump as company shifts to cloud, mobile and analytics Armed with $100M investment, OpenStack consultant Mirantis eyes an IPO GlobalFoundries to take over IBM's semiconductor unit in $1.3 billion deal Anonymous sharing app Whisper under a cloud over user location data HP unveils cloud config manager WHITE PAPER: Alert Logic State of Cloud Security Report In a relatively short time, cloud computing, specifically Infrastructure-as a-Service, has shifted from a new but unproven approach to an accepted, even inevitable, model. Driven by flexibility and efficiency, the question facing most organizations is which applications and workloads to move to the cloud and when. Learn More First products from Apple-IBM deal to come next month The first products from Apple's mobile enterprise partnership with IBM will roll out next month, according to Apple CEO Tim Cook, who said the partnership "could change the way people work." Read More Microsoft (hearts) Linux, for Azure's sake Microsoft now loves Linux. This was the message from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, standing in front of an image that read "Microsoft [heart symbol] Linux," during a Monday webcast to announce a number of services it had added to its Azure cloud, including the Cloudera Hadoop package and the CoreOS Linux distribution. Read More Dropbox used for convincing phishing attack Dropbox's file storage service was used for a tricky phishing attack, although the service was quick to shut down it down, according to Symantec. Read More WEBCAST: Dell | Symantec Mobility Debate: Manage the Device or the App? Managing and securing mobile devices, data, and apps has become an IT imperative. This Webcast highlights the key criteria IT should evaluate before choosing a solution. Learn More. Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst on the impact of cloud and mobile Last month, I wrote about what Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst had to say about applications finally overshadowing infrastructure. But the rise of apps is only one of the big changes roiling the IT landscape. Cloud computing has had an equally dramatic effect. Has the cloud already won? Yes… and no. Read More Is your Ethernet fast enough? Four new speeds are in the works Ethernet's future is now about much more than the next top speed: The engineers charting a path for the ubiquitous networking protocol are looking at several new versions to serve a variety of applications. Read More IBM earnings slump as company shifts to cloud, mobile and analytics IBM is hitting a rough patch financially as it shifts its strategy from hardware to cloud, mobile and analytics technology. Read More WEBCAST: Code 42 Enabling Collaboration while Maintaining Data Security Much to the dismay of IT­—well-meaning knowledge workers are using consumer-grade file sync and share tools, violating security policies and putting mission-critical, corporate data at risk. Learn More Armed with $100M investment, OpenStack consultant Mirantis eyes an IPO OpenStack consultancy Mirantis has raised a $100M funding round led by a cadre of venture capital firms and the company's CEO says he hopes to take the company public in 2016. Read More GlobalFoundries to take over IBM's semiconductor unit in $1.3 billion deal IBM will sell the semiconductor technologies unit that makes its Power processors to GlobalFoundries, paying the chip manufacturer about US$1.3 billion to take two factories off its hands in a move to save money. Read More Anonymous sharing app Whisper under a cloud over user location data Anonymous sharing app Whisper has come under a cloud after a newspaper report charged it with tracking the location of its users, including those who have asked not to be followed. Read More HP unveils cloud config manager HP this week unveiled a network virtualization system for large enterprise and cloud providers designed to simplify network configuration. Read More
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