Microsoft kills the enterprise cloud

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	Jonny Evans: Microsoft kills the enterprise cloud Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer may be taking a page from the Apple playbook in repositioning his corporation as a "devices company", but that's just smoke and mirrors to disguise a firm that's lost its soul: its data surveillance deal with the NSA undermines its precious position in the enterprise. Here's why: Read More WHITE PAPER: ServiceNow 3 IT Imperatives CIOs Use To Drive Change CIOs who have been successful in bridging the divide between IT operations and business did it by accelerating the transformation of IT. Read now! In this Issue Video Brew: Listen to the beat of the hard drive drums Preston Gralla: Microsoft reorganization's hidden message: We want to be your daddy JR Raphael: 3 awesome Android apps for following news with Feedly Greg Lambert: Six degrees of patches this July Peter Eicher: Makin' copies! How many copies of data are you storing? Sharky: Because what's a summer holiday without PICNICs? WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Data Center Transformation: Stepping Back to Move Forward While getting caught in the middle of competing demands is nothing new for IT leaders, the pressures being felt today are coming from more sides and with greater intensity than ever. Read Now Video Brew: Listen to the beat of the hard drive drums Using an HP Scanjet 3C, two hard drives, two oscilloscopes and a xylophone, YouTube user bd594 creates some pretty well-executed music. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft reorganization's hidden message: We want to be your daddy Microsoft today unveiled a major reorganization that will drastically change the way the company operates. But beneath the restructuring was a hidden message: Like Google, Microsoft wants to gather lots of private data about you, and use that to know what you want before you even do yourself. Read More JR Raphael: 3 awesome Android apps for following news with Feedly Google Reader may be gone, but don't despair: There are some pretty awesome Android apps available for following news via Feedly. Read More WHITE PAPER: TEKsystems Top Reasons for Outsourcing Mobile App Development TEKsystems commissioned IDG to survey Computerworld's audience regarding their organizations' mobility strategy, the approaches they have pursued or are pursing in implementing mobile technology within their organization and the various ways providers have addressed or plan to address select mobility obstacles. . Learn More Greg Lambert: Six degrees of patches this July This month, we have seven updates, with six rated as Critical and one rated as Important. We are on track for a bumper year of Critical updates ─ with 22, so far ─ compared to 34 for all of 2012. Read More Peter Eicher: Makin' copies! How many copies of data are you storing? There's a very old IT problem that's gaining renewed attention lately: the problem of keeping too many copies of data. The analyst firm IDC has quantified the problem and come up with some rather startling statistics. For example, they say that more than 60% of all enterprise disk capacity worldwide is filled with copy data Read More Sharky: Because what's a summer holiday without PICNICs? It's late in the day just before a major holiday when this pilot fish gets a call from a telecommuter, who reports that the touchpad on his new laptop is totally dead and the computer is running slow. Read More
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