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Microsoft's cloud licensing changes: What you need to know

San Francisco grabs onto the cloud with Microsoft | DARPA takes aim at building iron-clad cloud services

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Microsoft's cloud licensing changes: What you need to know
Microsoft will soon let customers use their current licenses to move workloads to the cloud. Here's how it works. Read More


WHITE PAPER: IBM

Cloud Computing Drives Improvements in IT Service Delivery
IDC OPINION Cloud computing promotes a new dialogue between business and IT decision makers allowing them to define business service requirements first and then decide how to balance the use of shared, internal virtualized IT resources and external public services cost-effectively. Read now

WHITE PAPER: BMC

Managing Cloud Services from Request to Retirement
This lifecycle is tailored to the needs of the business, with both the flexibility to deliver the full required software stacks and the management rigor to ensure the operational integrity of the cloud. Read More Today!

San Francisco grabs onto the cloud with Microsoft
The city of San Francisco announced Wednesday that it is moving workers from multiple email systems to Microsoft's cloud-based email. Read More

DARPA takes aim at building iron-clad cloud services
Building highly-secure, vulnerability invulnerable cloud services is part of a new technology drive that will be announced by the scientists at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Read More

Researcher: Dropbox misrepresents security features
Cloud data storage and synchronization company Dropbox has been hit with a complaint to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission alleging that the company has deceived consumers about the level of encryption security it offers. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Dell

Management Madness: How to Manage Mobile Devices
There are six major mobile operating systems in use now and each one offers its own set of security and management challenges. The resources in this Mobility KnowledgeVault will help you keep these devices secure on the corporate network with expert tips on management tools, endpoint security software, increasing application support and more. Read now

Microsoft, SAP team to ease cloud deployments
The two companies will bridge Microsoft .Net and Azure with SAP's NetWeaver Gateway. Read More

Gov't: We want stored emails, phone locations. New bill: Get a warrant!
It's about time! A new bill introduced to the U.S. Senate would update digital privacy laws and finally require the government to get a probable-cause warrant before snagging email and other private communications stored in the cloud. Read More

Ireland hopes security measures attract big cloud providers
IDA Ireland, the state agency that is soliciting cloud providers, touts the country's youthful, well-educated and skilled labor force, attractive tax policy, business-friendly climate, access to markets throughout the European Union -- and its "secure" IT infrastructure. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Netezza, an IBM Company

Oracle Exadata and Netezza TwinFin™ Compared
This ebook will provide the fundamental differences between the Netezza TwinFin® and Oracle Exadata solutions from the perspectives of query performance, simplicity of operation and value. The ebook will help you determine which solutions best meet your business needs and how to achieve optimal results from your data. Read now

HP management suite gets more cloud-ready
HP earlier this week took the wraps off Network Management Center (NMC) 9.1, which includes support for multitenant clouds, more automated performance management capabilities and the ability to managed unified communications environments, among other key updates. Read More

VMware debuts sign-on service for cloud applications
VMware Horizon App Manager will provice a single sign on for all of an organization's cloud applications. Read More

Platform, partners key to NetSuite's future
Count NetSuite among the growing number of SaaS (software as a service) vendors positioning themselves as providers of not just stand-alone applications, but also a rich development stack that partners and customers can use to integrate with and extend the core software. Read More

Senator introduces electronic surveillance reform bill
A new bill introduced in the U.S. Senate would update a 25-year-old law that sets the rules for law enforcement surveillance of e-mail and other electronic communications, with more legal protections for the privacy of data stored in the cloud. Read More

New Relic launches real user monitoring
New Relic, a SaaS application performance management (APM) solution supplier, today announced the extension of their response time visibility into the browser. New Relic customers can now see an end-to-end view of response time from the browser, through the network, the server, and services behind the server. Read More



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