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	Mexico hotel giant puts its IT in Texas The U.S. has been shipping application development work offshore for years, but cloud computing may help make America a data center services exporter. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Webcast Demonstrates New Collaboration Advances An insightful webcast demonstrates how you can harness the power of people-centric collaboration in today's post-PC world. You'll learn about new collaboration tools and technologies and witness firsthand why they're making the experience more immersive and more mobile, in boardrooms, bistros, and everywhere in between. Watch the webcast today. See how these solutions make collaboration possible from iPads to boardrooms. And learn how they're enabling organizations to accelerate decisions, be more productive, and save countless dollars in the process. View the webcast and see for yourself. In this Issue Amazon talks about its cloud security practices, joins CSA registry INSIDER Microsoft System Center targets cloud, virtualization Office 365 for consumers will cost less than $6 per month, analysts say Preston Gralla: Office 2013 to be a great cloud performer; will ship with the SkyDrive client app U.S. groups: Foreign cloud providers marketing against privacy concerns Richi Jennings: VMware buys Nicira: Open-source threat or cloudy opportunity? Google establishes partner program for cloud services How to choose an IaaS provider Dell's cloud plans slip behind schedule WEBCAST: Oracle Addressing Your Top Database Management Challenges Date: Thursday, August 30, 2012, 1:00 PM EDT Learn how your experience stacks up against your peers and gain insight on strategies to address the most pressing issues as new survey results on managing databases are revealed by Crimson Consulting in this live Webcast. Learn More Amazon talks about its cloud security practices, joins CSA registry Amazon Web Services has submitted an entry to the Cloud Security Alliance's Security, Trust & Assurance Registry (STAR), a move that sheds some light into the security features of its IaaS cloud offering. Read More INSIDER Microsoft System Center targets cloud, virtualization With the revamped System Center 2012 suite of management tools, Microsoft has launched a powerful new weapon in the battle to control the virtualized data center and the cloud, both private and public. (Insider - free registration required.) Read More Office 365 for consumers will cost less than $6 per month, analysts say Microsoft must aggressively price its Office 365 subscription plans, perhaps as low as $2 a month, to convince consumers that it's better to rent software than to buy it. Read More Preston Gralla: Office 2013 to be a great cloud performer; will ship with the SkyDrive client app I've reviewed Office 2013 and complained that it isn't up to snuff when it comes to using the cloud because it won't sync files everywhere. But Microsoft now says Office 2103 will ship with the SkyDrive app -- and with that, Office will be a great cloud performer. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Improving Governance, Risk and Compliance In this webcast you'll learn how your organization can become more responsive to financial market challenges while reassuring decision makers the accuracy of execution. Register Now U.S. groups: Foreign cloud providers marketing against privacy concerns Cloud computing services from outside the U.S. are trying to exploit perceived weaknesses in privacy laws to drive business away from U.S. providers, according to some representatives of the tech industry. Read More Richi Jennings: VMware buys Nicira: Open-source threat or cloudy opportunity? VMware is buying Nicira for $1.26 billion. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder what the future holds for open-source software-defined networking and cloud-computing generally. Read More Google establishes partner program for cloud services Following the best marketing practices of traditional IT firms, Google has launched a partner program to help third-party vendors use and sell Google cloud services. Read More How to choose an IaaS provider Move over, Amazon: Google, HP and Microsoft, and others, want a seat at the table. How do you choose among all those IaaS providers? Start with this quick primer. Read More Dell's cloud plans slip behind schedule Dell announced an aggressive schedule last year to roll out cloud-based application services, but it now looks like the schedule was a little too aggressive. Read More
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