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	Can Dropbox go from consumer hit to business success? As the business world wrestles with adopting cloud-based collaboration services, can a so-called independent company offer a competitive product to the business-centric offerings by Google (Apps/Drive), Apple (iCloud for Work) and Microsoft (Office 365)? Read More   WHITE PAPER: VMware | Lenovo Software-Defined Storage Solves Your Data Storage Challenges Learn about the unique data storage solution via a partnership of VMware, Lenovo and Intel. The companies offer an efficient, cost-saving, high-performance software-defined storage solution for virtual environments. Learn more In this Issue Amazon CTO Vogels on competing with Microsoft in hybrid cloud, keeping partners and customers happy Apple updates the iPod Touch with impressive new upgrades BitTorrent teams with Onehub for 'hybrid' enterprise file-sharing service Microsoft rallies partners around cloud, mobile, Windows 10 Google opens its cloud to Microsoft workloads Let users choose enterprise cloud applications 8x8 upgrades its contact center portfolio with new features and analytics Cloud service brokers help direct you through the traffic No longer just jet engines and wind turbines, GE moves to be a software vendor Open source router project administers Lithium WHITE PAPER: Tealium Build Your Own Marketing Cloud Download our free guidebook, "Build Your Own Marketing Cloud™," to learn how to maximize your technology investments and drive superior cross-channel experiences. Learn more Amazon CTO Vogels on competing with Microsoft in hybrid cloud, keeping partners and customers happy At the AWS Summit in New York, Network World Senior Editor Brandon Butler spoke with Amazon CTO Werner Vogels about the state of the cloud industry, challenges facing AWS, its relationships with partners and customers, and what he's learned from growing AWS into the business it is today. Read More   Apple updates the iPod Touch with impressive new upgrades We may be living in a decidedly iPhone world, but the iPod isn't dead just yet. On Tuesday morning, while most everyone was preoccupied with Amazon's Prime Day, Apple quietly revamped its entire iPod lineup. Read More   BitTorrent teams with Onehub for 'hybrid' enterprise file-sharing service BitTorrent has long billed its Sync file-sharing service as a peer-to-peer alternative to cloud storage, but on Wednesday the company announced it's working with Onehub on a new, combined offering for large businesses. Read More   WEBCAST: EMA Research Reliable Application Delivery Across the Cloud Research from leading IT analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) has evidenced strong and growing interest in cloud deployment models.Join Tracy Corbo, principal research analyst at EMA, for this informative webinar on Thursday, July 16th @ 2PM EST. Learn More Microsoft rallies partners around cloud, mobile, Windows 10 Following what has become a tradition for Microsoft's Worldwide Partners Conference, chief operating officer Kevin Turner did some old-fashioned fiery preaching in his closing keynote, this year condemning cloud-service competitors like Google for not respecting customers' privacy as they chase profits. Read More   Google opens its cloud to Microsoft workloads Google today expanded support for Windows workloads running on its cloud, a move that the company hopes will better position its Google Cloud Platform to court enterprise customers. Read More   Let users choose enterprise cloud applications Asked whether he was considering a cloud application for his company, a CIO of a mid-size organization said the downside risk of ripping and replacing the company's existing on-premises application outweighed the productivity gains the cloud application might bring. Part of that risk, he felt, was his job security. Read More   : Dell Inc. Creating Efficiency through Private Cloud - Infographic Private clouds provide IT with the ability to quickly scale and deliver continuous services to multiple business units while maintaining control over their information and processes. This Infographic highlights the four key steps to building a private cloud foundation. Learn More 8x8 upgrades its contact center portfolio with new features and analytics 8x8, a cloud-based unified communications and contact center solutions service provider, announced a new set of analytics as part of its Virtual Contact Center (VCC) portfolio. Read More   Cloud service brokers help direct you through the traffic With so many cloud service providers that run the gamut from first-rate to not well known, navigating the cloud territory can seem as daunting as hitching a cart to a horse and heading west. Read More   No longer just jet engines and wind turbines, GE moves to be a software vendor For several years now, GE has been looking at its business through the lens of software. Even its corporate tagline has changed to being less physically constrained. GE is now, apparently, the company that "works on things that matter." Read More   Open source router project administers Lithium OpenDaylight is a participant in the CloudRouter Project, and Lithium was released two weeks ago. It is OpenDaylight's third SDN controller release and includes enhancements in security and automation, scalability, performance, OpenStack and group-based policy, including support for Cisco/Citrix/IBM/Microsoft/Sungard OpFlex policy protocol. 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