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	Microsoft buys Yammer for $1.2 billion Microsoft has agreed to acquire Yammer, a maker of cloud-based enterprise social networking software, for $1.2 billion in cash, a deal rumored to be in the works for the past week and a half. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CompTIA Catch on to the Cloud with CompTIA Cloud Essentials CompTIA Cloud Essentials™ is vendor neutral and non-technical. Take the first step toward realizing the benefits and opportunities the cloud offers you and your organization. Explore the various types of cloud and learn the steps to successful adoption and more! Get certified for 10% off CompTIA Cloud Essentials today! In this Issue Top CIOs take home seven-figure pay packages Gartner: 1/3 of consumer data will be stored in the cloud by '16 The more you encrypt, the more the government breaks into your cloud INSIDER If you are going to build a private cloud, Eucalyptus is the tool you're looking for, says CEO Mårten Mickos BYOD boon: Make identities part of the cloud OS OpenStack company Piston adds virtual desktop infrastructure Application performance: The key goal of WAN optimization Open source cloud vendors air their differences Rackspace president: Cloud needs open alternative to Amazon WEBCAST: Cisco Systems Listen and Learn: "Countdown to Cloud" Webcast Cisco TechWiseTV's Jimmy Ray Purser walks through steps required to prepare your WAN for public, private, & hybrid clouds, as well as how to best scale those services across your organization. Listen See how you can deliver a better cloud experience with a Cisco Cloud Intelligent Network. Watch Now Learn more. Top CIOs take home seven-figure pay packages CIOs and senior IT leaders have ascended the ranks of corporate America, and in some cases, they rate among the most highly paid executives at the largest U.S. companies. IT leaders at Fortune 500 companies including Aetna, Gap, FedEx, Home Depot and Walgreens took home multimillion-dollar pay packages in 2011. Read More Gartner: 1/3 of consumer data will be stored in the cloud by '16 Consumer adoption of cloud services will continue to increase in the coming years, with one-third of personal data being stored in the cloud by 2016, Gartner predicts. Read More The more you encrypt, the more the government breaks into your cloud Your online privacy has never been less private; try to protect it with encryption and the government steps around you via stored records in the cloud. While not everyone encrypts data stored locally on their hard drive, encryption is becoming the default for Internet communications. If it is encrypted, then it seems to be interpreted as a threat by government and law enforcement agencies. Read More WHITE PAPER: MegaPath 6 Best Practices to Ensure a Thorough Evaluation Identify 6 key situations that demonstrate when it's time to consider managed network services, plus 6 best practices to ensure your evaluation of managed network service providers is thorough enough to support your decision. View Now INSIDER If you are going to build a private cloud, Eucalyptus is the tool you're looking for, says CEO Mårten Mickos There are a growing number of open source cloud infrastructure players in the market, but Eucalyptus says it is the best bet for private enterprise clouds. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix caught up with CEO Mårten Mickos, who, as the former CEO of MySQL, has loads of experience growing significant open source companies, to learn more about the company and how Mickos sees private clouds evolving. Mickos addresses where Eucalyptus fits in, typical use cases, how they are different from Piston Cloud and OpenStack, ties to Amazon (described as the Linux of today), the importance of migrating jobs to and from public clouds, plans for the $30 million in capital Eucalyptus just raised, and more in this wide-ranging chat. Read More BYOD boon: Make identities part of the cloud OS Symplified's CEO will argue at an upcoming conference one way to deal with the problem: Push access management and control into the cloud. Read More OpenStack company Piston adds virtual desktop infrastructure Piston Cloud Computing is the first OpenStack-based company to embrace virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), marking OpenStack's entrance into the VDI market dominated by Citrix. Read More WHITE PAPER: Certeon The Evolution of Cloud Networking This cloud networking report closely examines the cloud's impact on the network. Learn how IT organizations are changing their networking approach, get tips to evaluate a cloud service provider, learn the role cloud balancing plays, and leverage survey data to compare your cloud networking plans with your peers. Learn more. Application performance: The key goal of WAN optimization As the WAN matures, with advances in robust applications, cloud delivery and other technologies, optimization tools have had to keep pace. It is no longer just about classic compression and protocol acceleration. The new role is about application performance, delivering everything from application visibility to quality of service (QoS) control. In short, the focus is on true WAN governance. Read More Open source cloud vendors air their differences The open source cloud world looks to be getting more contentious. At a panel discussion this week, representatives from OpenStack, Citrix's CloudStack and Eucalyptus – three competing open source cloud deployment software platforms – traded jabs back and forth. Read More Rackspace president: Cloud needs open alternative to Amazon Rackspace President Lew Moorman says that the cloud market needs an open source alternative to the undisputed leading public cloud infrastructure provider in the market, Amazon Web Services. Read More
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