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	Microsoft Office 365 goes live Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer launched the much-awaited Office 365 on Tuesday after a beta program of about nine months, as the company responds to the rising popularity of cloud-based applications for collaboration and communication. Read More WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper Corporation NEW Diskeeper 2011 Pro Premier Edition Diskeeper 2011 Pro Premier edition provides essential performance and efficiency increases for power workstation users as well as all the features of the Professional edition. Learn more! In this Issue Richi Jennings: 5 reasons to avoid Microsoft Office 365 Is Offshoring Different in the Cloud? LaCie offers hybrid cloud storage service Microsoft's Office 365 launch puts Google on defensive The 10 worst cloud outages (and what we can learn from them) CA modernizes the mainframe with updated stack Four companies rethink databases for the cloud Lockdown: How would you handle emergency network operations? Wyoming cuts cable, moves to cloud with Google Apps Zenprise cloud service manages corporate mobile device surge WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems, Inc. Social Technologies Transform Business Social technologies are moving from the consumer space into the enterprise, and Enterprise Social Software (ESS) is changing how people work. A white paper based on a Forrester Consulting survey commissioned by Cisco reveals the benefits and inhibitors faced by decision makers and how ESS is transforming business processes. Read the white paper now. Richi Jennings: 5 reasons to avoid Microsoft Office 365 It's Office 365 day, and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) employees are no doubt dancing in the streets of Redmond. They'll be celebrating the launch -- after a long beta gestation -- of the company's latest cloud service for messaging, collaboration, and good-old Office documents. Which is nice, but please don't all rush at once -- there are a few reasons why you should think twice before signing. Here are five of those reasons, in The Long View... INSIDER (free registration required) Read More Is Offshoring Different in the Cloud? Offshoring IT work to India, China, Eastern Europe, and even South America has been a staple of IT cost reduction. And by definition the Cloud means location independence. Generally speaking, they're practically made for each other. Read More LaCie offers hybrid cloud storage service LaCie today announced a hybrid storage product that combines a network-attached storage box with an online backup service. Read More Microsoft's Office 365 launch puts Google on defensive Microsoft's launch of Office 365 has Google feeling pressure to explain why businesses should use Gmail and Google Docs. Read More The 10 worst cloud outages (and what we can learn from them) Sending your IT business to the cloud comes with risk, as those affected by these 10 colossal cloud outages can attest Read More WHITE PAPER: Red Hat Agencies Visually Manage Linux VMs Managing a Linux-based virtualized environment does not have to be complex. See how Red Hat provides the big picture to management and: • Delivers 100% ROI in less than five months • Doubles the number of Linux servers managed per admin • Eliminates managing Linux systems with cryptic commands Read now! CA modernizes the mainframe with updated stack CA Technologies has added fresh user interfaces to its stack of mainframe management tools. Read More Four companies rethink databases for the cloud Several companies are developing new database technologies to solve what they see as the shortcomings of traditional, relational database management systems in a cloud environment. Read More Lockdown: How would you handle emergency network operations? Are you ready for a natural disaster, denial of service or security breach? If one happened right now, would you have a plan ready to respond to it? What the recent highly publicized security breaches demonstrated was that some companies were ready and some were woefully unprepared. Part of that has to do with technology and security controls, but most of it is about planning and process, not tools. So what does it take to be ready for an attack? Read More Wyoming cuts cable, moves to cloud with Google Apps Wyoming has rolled out Google Apps for some 10,000 state workers, the first state-wide implementation of the cloud platform in the U.S. Read More Zenprise cloud service manages corporate mobile device surge Zenprise deploys its mobile device management application in third-party data centers to offer a cloud-based service aimed at small- to medium-size businesses. Read More
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