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	Verizon boosts cloud services with CloudSwitch buy Verizon said it has acquired CloudSwitch and plans to use its cloud software to help enterprise customers more easily move applications to Verizon's Terremark environment. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Rackspace Grow your cloud knowledge at Cloud U 2011. Through a year-long series of whitepapers and webinars, independent analyst Ben Kepes will be building a cloud computing curriculum designed for technologists and non-technical users alike. The mission is to build widespread knowledge about the cloud revolution and encourage discussion about the cloud's benefits for businesses of all sizes. Learn More Now In this Issue The race to cloud standards gets crowded Amazon adds in-memory caching to its cloud VMware launches cloud-packaged Postgres Cloud-based storage improves disaster recovery at Situs Cloud growth prompts shift in enterprise security strategies Dropbox cloud was a haven for data thieves, researchers say Pharmaceutical firm retires Microsoft environment for cloud services Josh Stephens: Cloud computing -- more philosophy than technology SaaS ERP is making the grade at Brown University Amazon's GovCloud: Lessons for the private sector Amazon promises to improve redundancy after Dublin outage Glenn Weinstein: Cloud brokering isn't about commoditization Preston Gralla: Microsoft comes out a winner in cloud deal with Chinese Linux provider StackMob aims mobile cloud platform at Heroku customers WHITE PAPER: F5 Connecting to the Cloud with F5 and VMware vMotion Learn how load balancing Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) can substantially reduce expenses in traditional and virtualized architectures with a fast ROI. F5 customers have maximized their ROI by simply employing SSL offload, compression offload, and TCP optimization. Read More Today! The race to cloud standards gets crowded Multiple groups have sprung up to develop cloud standards. Will that diversity lead to success or fragmentation? Read More Amazon adds in-memory caching to its cloud Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a public beta test of ElastiCache, which is designed to allow enterprises to speed up their Web applications, the company said. Read More VMware launches cloud-packaged Postgres Augmenting its line of software to support cloud deployments, VMware has created a package for running the Postgres database in a virtualized environment, the company announced Monday. Read More Cloud-based storage improves disaster recovery at Situs When Bill McCown joined The Situs Companies six years ago, the Houston-based real estate consulting firm was anticipating growth, and the company figured its tape-based backup systems would need to be upgraded. Then came September 2008, when Hurricane Ike slammed into Houston.While employees in other locations had access to the data center, the central office was offline and out of the communications loop. Read More Cloud growth prompts shift in enterprise security strategies What a different global economy this would be if it were only a little bit more like the cloud. As the financial markets go through their bipolar mood swings with every wrenching headline, the market for cloud services has marched steadily upward and onward, seemingly unfazed by the concerns of the non-virtual world. Read More Dropbox cloud was a haven for data thieves, researchers say Files entrusted to cloud-storage provider Dropbox were susceptible to unauthorized access via three attacks devised by security researchers, but the provider has since closed the vulnerabilities. Read More 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: Rackspace Moving your Infrastructure to the Cloud This paper details the significant benefits that Cloud Computing brings and provides guidance to IT decision makers to help their decision making process. This is especially important given the plethora of vendors in the marketplace today. Read Now! Josh Stephens: Cloud computing -- more philosophy than technology At least once a week I end up in a conversation about cloud computing with someone who really has no idea what it is. It's hard to blame them as there are so many different things that get lumped into this bucket and the explanations seem to keep changing. With that in mind, I thought I'd provide some very basic definitions that even the neophytes out there can understand in hopes of finding some common ground. (Insider - free registration required.) Read More SaaS ERP is making the grade at Brown University SaaS ERP is being looked at more and more as a viable option to traditional complex, expensive and labor-intensive packaged ERP suites. Read More Amazon's GovCloud: Lessons for the private sector Amazon introduced a new cloud service aimed specifically at the United States government this week. Although the Amazon Web Services GovCloud is targeted at government agencies, there are also some valuable lessons for private sector businesses and IT admins to learn about cloud servers and data storage. Read More Amazon promises to improve redundancy after Dublin outage Amazon Web Services 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 Glenn Weinstein: Cloud brokering isn't about commoditization True cloud brokerages don't just consolidate raw computing power -- they serve as trusted advisers to CIOs that need to make SaaS and PaaS vendors play nicely together. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft comes out a winner in cloud deal with Chinese Linux provider In a sign that Microsoft recognizes that the future is multi-platform, and not Microsoft-centric, it has signed a deal with China's leading Linux provider to develop and sell cloud-computing solutions for the Chinese market. This is good news, not just for Microsoft but for anyone who is interested in using the cloud. (Insider - free registration required.) Read More StackMob aims mobile cloud platform at Heroku customers StackMob hopes to make it easier for Heroku's customers to extend their applications to mobile phones, by adding its service as a Heroku add-on. Read More
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