Cloud industry needs to standardize, says Fed CIO

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	Cloud industry needs to standardize, says Fed CIO Frank Baitman, the CIO of the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, favors a cloud broker model to help government entities identify the best cloud approach for a particular workload. To make comparisons possible, Baitman says, cloud vendors will have to "standardize in those areas that we evaluate cloud on." Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Preparing Your Infrastructure for the Hyperconvergence Era From cloud computing and virtualization to mobility and unified communications, an array of innovative technologies is transforming today's data centers. And along the way, they're also flooding corporate networks with enormous new torrents of traffic. Read Now In this Issue Google's Chromebook enters adulthood Bitbucket vs. GitHub: Choosing a source code host Where do SDNs fit in the data center? Box looks beyond cloud storage with note-taking app Workday rolls out big data analytics module AT&T, Microsoft team to link business customers to Azure cloud HP rolls out next-gen firewall line, threat-detection service Couchbase open source data store goes mobile WEBCAST: IBM Corporation Give Your Users What They Want with Cloud and Mobile Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 Time: 2:00 PM EDT You will learn: - How moving to the cloud can help accelerate mobile adoption in your organization. - The benefits of combining the power of cloud with the freedom and functionality of mobile. Learn More. Google's Chromebook enters adulthood Intel's decision to bring its Haswell chips to Google's Chromebook might make it the system it was meant to be. Read More Bitbucket vs. GitHub: Choosing a source code host Picking the source code hosting solution that's right for your organization boils down to a number of factors -- you might even consider using both. Read More Where do SDNs fit in the data center? CIOs are trying to make sense of the hype surrounding software-defined networks (SDNs) and their potential in data centers -- but are they looking for answers in all the wrong places? Read More Box looks beyond cloud storage with note-taking app Box, the Silicon Valley darling that has disrupted enterprise cloud storage and file sharing, will broaden its scope into the content-creation space with a new online note-taking application. Read More WEBCAST: ServiceNow Software Asset Management During our Software Asset Management webinar you will learn how having asset, configuration and other service management processes together in one system of record provides the control and visibility you need to overcome these challenges. View Now! Workday rolls out big data analytics module Workday has unveiled a new software module for its cloud-based human capital management (HCM) application that allows customers to analyze data from both Workday and third-party sources. Read More AT&T, Microsoft team to link business customers to Azure cloud AT&T is putting the finishing touches on a service that connects its corporate customers' VPNs to Microsoft Azure services, eliminating the need to find separate links between business sites and Microsoft's cloud. Read More HP rolls out next-gen firewall line, threat-detection service HP's Next-Generation Firewall line is designed to exert application-level controls and visibility over all traffic related to the enterprise -- including mobile devices used in public WiFi settings and traffic from cloud services. Read More Couchbase open source data store goes mobile Couchbase is launching a version of its namesake NoSQL open source data store that can run on mobile devices, called Couchbase Lite. Read More
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