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	Box CEO courts enterprise cloud customers Aaron Levie, cofounder and CEO of cloud-storage provider Box, got some laughs from the crowd at Re/code's enterprise conference Tuesday night when he said he's been thinking about files for 10 and a half years. He wasn't joking. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WEBCAST: Nasuni What You Need to Know About Connected Storage Watch this exclusive video webcast with Fred Pinkett, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Nasuni, and learn how to overcome the challenges of the traditional storage stack through "connected storage." Learn More In this Issue The week cloud computing took over the world Dell takes on Cisco and Juniper with 100G data center switch In case you aren't suitably impressed by the scale of Amazon Web Services EMC Syncplicity lets enterprises manage their own encryption keys WHITE PAPER: CDW Preparing For Future Attacks The Stuxnet worm is believed to have significantly affected Iranian nuclear processing, and was widely considered to be the first operational cyber weapon. Learn More The week cloud computing took over the world If you had any lingering doubts that cloud computing was dominating the world of information technology, last week's quarterly earnings reports from Amazon and Microsoft should have obliterated them. Both companies announced big-time growth and revenue from their cloud operations.Amazon shares its numbers First, let's talk Amazon, which for the first time broke out the numbers for its Amazon Web Services division, including "amounts earned from sales of compute, storage, database, and other AWS service offerings for startups, enterprises, government agencies, and academic institutions." And those numbers were scorching!To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: CDW Best and Worst Practices: Total Software Management This paper takes a closer look at some of the initial steps of establishing and leveraging total software management (TSM) and also discusses some of the best and worst practices. Learn More Dell takes on Cisco and Juniper with 100G data center switch Dell this week extended its arsenal of data center Ethernet switches, highlighted by a 100G device with ports dividable into 25G and 50G channels.Twenty-five gigabit and 50G Ethernet are becoming popular options for data centers looking to fill the bandwidth gap between 10G and 40G for server-to-top-of-rack switch connectivity. Products supporting 25/50G are intended to scale network bandwidth to cloud server and storage endpoints, where workloads are expected to surpass the capacity of 10/40G Ethernet links deployed today.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: Kony Inc 5 Steps to Great Apps Say goodbye to one-off apps and set a foundation for a comprehensive enterprise mobility strategy. Learn More In case you aren't suitably impressed by the scale of Amazon Web Services Although the video has been up for awhile, if you haven’t had the chance to watch Amazon Web Service’s VP & Distinguished Engineer James Hamilton spell out AWS facts at the re:Invent conference last November, do yourself a favor and pull up a chair. Fascinating stuff that gives you some insight into the rapidly evolving world of cloud computing.The video is embedded below (or you can watch it on YouTube here, but here are some facts to whet your appetite: AWS has more than 1 million users AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) usage is growing 132% year over year AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is growing 99% year over year Every day AWS adds as much new server capacity as Amazon used to support its $7 billion business back in 2004 Networking only represents 8% of monthly AWS operating costs, Hamilton says, but the “cost of networking is escalating relative to the cost of all the other equipment.” That is very “anti-Moore,” he says.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More EMC Syncplicity lets enterprises manage their own encryption keys Some enterprises that are happy to put their data in a public cloud prefer to keep the keys to that data under their own control. That’s the message online file sync and sharing services are sending lately.On Wednesday, EMC’s Syncplicity division announced Customer Managed Keys, a feature that lets enterprises store the encryption keys for their Syncplicity shared data on a rights management server on their own premises. It’s a new option in addition to having the keys stored in Syncplicity’s cloud.The announcement came just a couple of months after rival Box released its own private key-management feature into beta testing. That system, called EKM (Enterprise Key Management), may become generally available on Wednesday at the Box Dev conference in San Francisco. EKM likewise was added as an alternative to keeping keys in the vendor’s cloud.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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