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	Pharmaceutical firm retires Microsoft environment for cloud services Amag Pharmaceuticals, based in Lexington, Mass., has almost eliminated its internal server network, and couldn't be happier about it. That's because the company, with about 240 employees, is now largely riding on cloud services. Read More WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc. Akamai Cloud Optimization for Amazon EC2™ The emergence of public cloud platforms and services has IT organizations thinking about which applications they want to keep in-house and which they can build within the cloud. Read more In this Issue RIM launches smartphone management for small businesses Leveraging virtual I/O technologies to achieve converged infrastructures: The road to the private cloud Exchange vs. Office 365: Microsoft exec does the math Amazon promises to improve redundancy after Dublin outage CloudSwing enables open source cloud stacks Preparing for the real costs of cloud computing Rethinking the ESB: Building a simple, secure, scalable Service Bus with an SOA Gateway Google CEO Larry Page blogs on why he's buying Motorola Mobility Get control over your cross-platform identity management issues Are Motorola's patents enough to protect Android? WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies The Changing Role of IT This white paper analyzes research conducted by IDG Research Services about the changing role of IT: what's driving the change, what skill-sets will be more valued and what should forward-looking IT executives consider as IT shifts increasingly towards an IT supply chain model. Learn More RIM launches smartphone management for small businesses Research In Motion launched a free online service for small businesses to help them centrally manage BlackBerry smartphones in the cloud, providing protection for business content saved on the devices. Read More Leveraging virtual I/O technologies to achieve converged infrastructures: The road to the private cloud A private cloud architecture leverages the power of end-to-end virtualization so workloads can be fluidly distributed among a pool of servers, but this ideal cannot be achieved with traditional network infrastructure. Read More Exchange vs. Office 365: Microsoft exec does the math Speaking at an Oppenheimer tech conference, Microsoft investor relations GM Bill Koefoed did his best to explain how his company's Office 365 cloud service can be sweet deal for customers and investors alike. Read More WEBCAST: Citrix Systems Forrester Webinar – "Enabling 2011 Business Initiatives" Forrester Webinar – "Enabling 2011 Business Initiatives" – shows how to use virtual appliances to build a network infrastructure that supports top business priorities. Includes expert recommendations for how to optimize your data center for Cloud computing and loads that change with user and business needs. Compliments of Citrix. View now Amazon promises to improve redundancy after Dublin outage Amazon Web Services (AWS) learned a lot of lessons from the outage that affected its Dublin data center, and will now work to improve power redundancy, load balancing and the way it communicates when something goes wrong with its cloud, the company said in a summary of the incident. Read More CloudSwing enables open source cloud stacks OpenLogic's service will go up against PaaS offerings from Red Hat and VMware. Read More Preparing for the real costs of cloud computing The cloud is moving past the hype stage and beginning to deliver tangible benefits to organizations. These improvements include increased flexibility and agility. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Fine-Tune Your IT Performance Learn how to bridge the gap between application performance management solutions that don't understand the underlying network and network management products that don't know how to map network traffic to applications. Learn more! Rethinking the ESB: Building a simple, secure, scalable Service Bus with an SOA Gateway For years the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) has been seen as a corporate integration and messaging backbone upon which application architectures are built. However, this concept must evolve to meet the requirements of today's corporate landscape, where IT boundaries are blurring, driven by the need to integrate with partners, cloud and mobile applications. Read More Google CEO Larry Page blogs on why he's buying Motorola Mobility In a company blog post, Google CEO Larry Page lays out the rationale for his software company to pay $12.5 billion for a leading maker of Android-based smartphones and tablets. Read More Get control over your cross-platform identity management issues According to the Gartner 2010 CIO Survey, identity management is the No. 1 IT security priority through 2011. This will be an ongoing concern well beyond 2011 as companies grapple with increasingly complex and disparate infrastructures and a multitude of new mobile access devices. New tools offer help in gaining control across heterogeneous platforms, even into the cloud. Read More Are Motorola's patents enough to protect Android? Google's $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility will land it a vast portfolio of patents, but the legal obstacles facing its Android operating system are far from over, legal experts said. Read More
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