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	5 freshly-funded cloud computing companies worth watching Investors made a crowd around the cloud this week, investing $175 million in companies focused on everything from storage to the WAN to the supply chain. The big winner of the bunch was FinancialForce.com, a San Francisco cloud ERP provider based on the Salesforce1 Platform that touted $110 million in fresh funding led by Technology Crossover Ventures. Read More   RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: EMC   Hybrid Cloud Made Easy Building a hybrid cloud can be hard. EMC has made it easy with the Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud. You can get a hybrid cloud in 28 days, using the technology you want. Hear what others are saying, and see the results from your peers In this Issue INSIDER When Intuit's network gets taxed, it turns to Riverbed performance management tools Google for Work vs. Microsoft Office 365: A comparison of cloud tools Amazon Cloud Drive's unlimited storage plans undercut rivals Google Cloud Launcher deploys VM-based apps in a snap Microsoft adds MDM capabilities to Office 365 GitHub recovering from massive DDoS attacks Amazon debuts bottomless storage plans for photos, data Startup takes the effort out of endpoint detection and response Acer Chromebook 15 review: Massive display, with mixed results overall Amazon blasts FAA on drone approvals, regulations WEBCAST: IBM Corporation   Leverage Analytics to grow customer life-time value Consumer expectations are changing; retailers today have challenges in all fronts from acquiring to growing to retaining profitable customer base. 81% of consumers expect the same brand experience across all channels. Learn More   INSIDER When Intuit's network gets taxed, it turns to Riverbed performance management tools With TurboTax and QuickBooks becoming increasingly cloud based, user experience is key. Read More   Google for Work vs. Microsoft Office 365: A comparison of cloud tools CIOs and IT managers have many choices when it comes to cloud-based productivity tools for email, documents, calendar and file-sharing. The first two options that come to mind for most, however, are Google Apps for Work and Office 365. Read More   Amazon Cloud Drive's unlimited storage plans undercut rivals Amazon Cloud Drive is taking the 'bang for your buck' throne away from Microsoft with new unlimited cloud storage plans. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Aerohive The Benefits of Cloud Networking Cloud networking introduces a new way to deploy, operate, & manage distributed enterprise networks. It delivers network capabilities via a cloud infrastructure with minimal capital investment or IT resources. This paper provides details on cloud networking, the state of the cloud market & its benefits Read Now Google Cloud Launcher deploys VM-based apps in a snap Google's latest enhancement to Cloud Platform is not a new feature but a repackaging of an existing innovation. But it's a downright useful offering all the same. Read More   Microsoft adds MDM capabilities to Office 365   Microsoft today announced the general availability of mobile device management (MDM) capabilities for Office 365, which is designed to give administrators the built-in capability to manage access to data in the cloud-based productivity suite across iOS, Android and Windows Phone devices. The MDM features are available at no additional cost in all Office 365 commercial plans, according to Microsoft.. Read More   GitHub recovering from massive DDoS attacks Software development platform GitHub said Sunday it was still experiencing intermittent outages from the largest cyberattack in its history but had halted most of the attack traffic. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Fortinet Threat Brief: A Detailed Analysis of Targeted Email Attacks Curious about how email attacks can still bypass established defenses and, more importantly, what you can about it? View Now>> Amazon debuts bottomless storage plans for photos, data If you've got tons of digital photos and music that are a headache to back up, Amazon wants to interest you in two new storage services designed to ease home backups and archiving. Read More   Startup takes the effort out of endpoint detection and response Startup Red Canary is offering an endpoint detection and response service based in the cloud that is backed up by a team of analysts who weed out false alarms. Read More   Acer Chromebook 15 review: Massive display, with mixed results overall I used the Acer Chromebook 15, which boasts the largest screen of any Chromebook, and I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it yet. Read More   Amazon blasts FAA on drone approvals, regulations   The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is taking too long to approve drone tests and isn't looking far enough into the future as it prepares rules for commercial drone flight, an Amazon executive told lawmakers. Read More
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