AMD reaches for cloud with new server chips

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	AMD reaches for cloud with new server chips Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday is expected to announce new Opteron 3200 series chips for low-end servers, which the company hopes will give it a competitive edge over Intel in the cloud server market. Read More WEBCAST: Microsoft Lead the Way In the New World of Data Date: Tuesday, April 10th, 2012 Time: 8:30am PST Join us for an expert panel discussion with Microsoft and industry leaders sharing real world solutions and reviewing the latest enterprise roadmap for business and data platform advancements. Learn More! In this Issue How GSA is securing its cloud apps Citrix releases desktop as a service improvements for providers How to get a hot job in big data Amazon uses nearly half a million servers to power EC2, researcher estimates VMware eases cloud provisioning RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: EMC Transform End User Computing Turn to EMC to bring new simplicity, power, and efficiency to end user computing-any user, any device, anywhere. Click to continue How GSA is securing its cloud apps As the General Services Administration (GSA) migrates to a work-anywhere, work-anytime strategy, the real estate arm of the U.S. federal government is discovering that having an iron-clad security strategy is critical to its adoption of cloud-based applications. Read More Citrix releases desktop as a service improvements for providers As desktop as a service (DaaS) continues to mature as a potential option for enterprises, service providers are attempting to automate and optimize their DaaS offerings, which officials at Citrix say will ultimately lead to lower costs and more choices for end users. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Driving Storage Efficiencies with Automated Tiering Storage management has become a huge issue for IT managers, and it's not going to subside, according to market researchers. New research conducted by IDG Research Services reveals that IT managers are considering tiered storage as an essential tool. Download this white paper to learn more about the survey results. Learn More! How to get a hot job in big data The big data revolution is creating a new breed of business-IT jobs -- and threatening to destabilize dyed-in-the-wool IT careers Read More Amazon uses nearly half a million servers to power EC2, researcher estimates Although most end users never get a clear view of the infrastructure underlying the services they consume via Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, Accenture Research Manager Huan Liu recently estimated that a whopping 454,400 individual blade servers are currently being used to power that product. Read More VMware eases cloud provisioning VMware has made its vCloud Integration Manager available, which it says lets service providers more efficiently provision cloud networks for clients. Read More
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