NFV a hit for OpenDaylight; HP scoops up app-dev platform Stackato

	HP scoops up cloudy app-dev platform Stackato | Despite H-1B lottery, offshore firms dominate visa use
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	NFV a hit for OpenDaylight Almost three quarters of OpenDaylight users plan to use the open source SDN technology for Network Functions Virtualization, while over half are looking at it for cloud orchestration. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Apprenda Enterprise Platform as a Service for App Architectures Apprenda is the only Enterprise PaaS on the market that supports both new and existing application architectures. In this whitepaper you'll learn how Apprenda supports your existing applications, how the applications are cloud enabled, and how they are on-boarded with Apprenda, using production customer examples. Learn More In this Issue HP scoops up cloudy app-dev platform Stackato Despite H-1B lottery, offshore firms dominate visa use How ITIL can help cloud services IBM aims new IoT community site at developers Google: Lock up your Compute Engine data with your own encryption keys IBM launches platform to enhance collaboration, mobility Alibaba eyes cloud computing expansion with $1 billion investment Armed with Watson smarts, Pepper aspires to be a robot salesman Amazon proposes drone superhighways in sky INSIDER It pays to be CIO: Median pay for 25 Fortune 500 CIOs tops $2.4M WHITE PAPER: Axway B2B 360-Degrees: A Revolution in EDI and API Integration Using B2B integration technology, digital networks allow companies to manage, secure and optimize data transactions across all industries and in every corner of the globe. Read this whitepaper to learn more. Learn More HP scoops up cloudy app-dev platform Stackato Consolidation in the cloud computing market continued this week with Hewlett Packard scooping up PaaS product Stackato. Read More   Despite H-1B lottery, offshore firms dominate visa use Offshore outsourcing firms that do most of their work in India remain the largest users of the H-1B visa for computer-related jobs, seemingly unaffected by the odds of the visa lottery, according to new data. Read More   How ITIL can help cloud services Cloud-based services, in comparison to traditionally delivered IT services (i.e., implemented in-house), changed the way people consume content. That's particularly true for small businesses, which gained significant value because the cloud enabled them to use services that would never be affordable if implemented from scratch inside their companies. Read More   WHITE PAPER: CDW The Cloud As A Catalyst For Business Transformation Cloud computing has rapidly evolved from a disruptive innovation to a pervasive reality. Organizations of all kinds now use the cloud for everything from data backup to core systems such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM). And use of the cloud keeps growing. View Now IBM aims new IoT community site at developers Hoping to rally the worldwide development community around the Internet of Things and drive business to its cloud services as well, IBM has launched a community space for programmers to write software to connect remote devices to back-end cloud systems. Read More   Google: Lock up your Compute Engine data with your own encryption keys Google will now let enterprise customers of one of its Cloud Platform services lock up their data with their own encryption keys, in case they're concerned about the company snooping on their corporate information. Read More   IBM launches platform to enhance collaboration, mobility IBM has unveiled a new platform for developers based on open source technologies, announcing plans to release 50 projects designed to spur a new class of cloud innovations around mobile, analytics and other high-growth areas. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Red Hat First Cloud project? Consider using AppDev/Test As businesses become more digital, IT professionals face the challenge of delivering applications and new business services faster. Implementing an application development/testing cloud not only offers developers a practical starting point for a cloud implementation, but also is the key to staying ahead of the competition. Learn more >> Alibaba eyes cloud computing expansion with $1 billion investment Enterprise customers can expect to hear more from e-commerce giant Alibaba Group. The Chinese company is accelerating the global expansion of its cloud computing business, with a US$1 billion investment. Read More   Armed with Watson smarts, Pepper aspires to be a robot salesman Japanese robot Pepper is getting an intelligence upgrade via IBM's Watson, but that doesn't make interacting with the real world any less challenging. Read More   Amazon proposes drone superhighways in sky Amazon has unveiled a bold vision for integrating drones into the skies above our cities, proposing drone superhighways that would crisscross the sky and enable thousands of unmanned vehicles to fly at high speeds under completely automated control. Read More     INSIDER It pays to be CIO: Median pay for 25 Fortune 500 CIOs tops $2.4M Today's CIOs can make millions as they ascend the corporate ladder. While climbing, many tech chiefs take on additional titles and broader administrative roles. (Insider Story) Read More
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