Tuesday, February 14, 2012

UptimeCloud shows real-time AWS costs

Valentine's Day Google Doodles through the years | Best practices for scaling up SaaS

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UptimeCloud shows real-time AWS costs
Uptime Software is the latest company aiming to help eliminate bill shock for cloud users. Read More


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WLAN Vendor Ranking
This 2011 Gartner Magic Quadrant analyzes and ranks the many options. Learn more.

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Cloud and the IT Infrastructure
Join guest speaker, Rohit Mehra, IDC Director of Enterprise Communications Infrastructure, to explore current trends, discuss best practices for optimizing Data Center and identify ways to better allocate network resources, reduce operating costs and improve application performance. View Now!

Valentine's Day Google Doodles through the years
Google goes all hearts and flowers on Feb. 14, at least most years. Read More

Best practices for scaling up SaaS
Guardian Life Insurance isn't about to take big risks when making IT investments, and CIO Frank Wander will be the first to tell you that he doesn't have a cloud computing strategy, per se. Read More

AT&T aims to ease private-to-hybrid cloud transition
AT&T has launched a new version of its Synaptic Compute as a Service offering designed to help enterprises access capacity beyond their private clouds. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Quantum

Big Data: Managing Explosive Growth
Are you experiencing a data explosion? The trend toward leveraging Big Data for competitive advantage helps IT professionals successfully meet business goals. Learn how to reliably manage, store and access vast amounts of archived data while protecting it and keeping costs low. View Now

Citrix simplifies cloud service management
Citrix is shipping a new version of its cloud management software CloudStack that makes it simpler for service providers and large businesses to manage and provision cloud services. Read More

Choose the right chargeback solution for greater cloud cost savings
While cloud computing offers many opportunities for IT cost savings, its diverse and dynamic nature can make it difficult to reap the expected financial benefits. For example, how do you see all of your costs in a heterogeneous cloud environment? And how do you charge for the resources being used? Read More

Oracle buying Taleo for US$1.9 billion in direct hit at SAP
Oracle is buying cloud-based talent management and employee recruitment software vendor Taleo for roughly US$1.9 billion. The move comes shortly after SAP's move to acquire SuccessFactors, a close competitor of Taleo, for US$3.4 billion in a deal that has yet to close. Read More


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Disaster Recovery Planning and the Cloud
Find out how virtualization is the stepping stone to the cloud and how to leverage virtualization technologies today to reduce the cost and improve the performance of your disaster recovery plan. Learn More!

Building an IDPS without big iron
Companies seeking to deploy intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDPS) for network security have traditionally had to rely on proprietary appliances that cost from $15,000 to $50,000. That puts IDPS out of reach for many small to midsize companies, but SaaS-based alternatives might fit the bill. Read More

Forget public cloud or private cloud, it's all about hyper-hybrid
Cloud computing has gone from being a promising technology to a reality that brings a unique set of challenges along with benefits. To fully leverage the disruptive potential of cloud without getting trapped in a web of integration complexity, CIOs and their IT organizations need to focus on what it means to rethink their business as a collection of services. Read More

Cloudscaling to offer OpenStack private cloud platform
Cloudscaling plans to introduce an OpenStack-based platform that enterprises can use to build private clouds. Read More

NextAdvisor picks its top cloud storage services for consumers
Consumer and small business product review site NextAdvisor.com launched a new category, with reviews and comparisons of the best cloud storage services. Read More



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