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	HP looks to ease enterprise IT cloud fears Hewlett-Packard hopes its investment of muscle and money into private clouds can convince enterprise IT executives to take the cloud plunge. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM The Forrester Wave™: Online Collaboration Software Vendors This report and associated Excel model highlight the key criteria CIOs and their staffs should evaluate when looking at prospective providers of online collaboration services. Learn More In this Issue Chromebook overload! A simple guide to all the new stuff ahead Office Online is great for Word and Excel, not PowerPoint Review: Apple's iWork for iCloud is elegant but limited IBM adds OpenStack to its cloud marketplace Lenovo set to launch cloud-based services for mobile devices, data centers Box zings rivals with massive GE customer win Microsoft Azure tools aim to ease hybrid cloud management WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Accelerate WAN File Transfers by 50x According to Taneja Group research, 83% of IT managers are considering a move to the cloud a top priority. This paper highlights their research and provides guidance on how to overcome cloud adoption barriers and further leverage virtualization and consolidation efforts by strategically deploying WAN optimization. Read now! Chromebook overload! A simple guide to all the new stuff ahead With all the new Chrome OS devices on the horizon right now, trying to wrap your head around everything is enough to make you dizzy. Blogger JR Raphael helps simplify things a bit. Read More Office Online is great for Word and Excel, not PowerPoint Reviewer Woody Leonhard finds Word Online and Excel Online are surprisingly capable, but PowerPoint Online and Office document compatibility are still half-baked. Read More Review: Apple's iWork for iCloud is elegant but limited Apple's online productivity suite is exceptionally polished and easy to use, but lacking in word processing and spreadsheet features. Read More : VMware HP University Virtualizes Mission-Critical Oracle Databases Wanting to migrate from a proprietary and expensive platform, Indiana University virtualized its most demanding Oracle Databases on x86 servers and discovered that VMware could handle their largest transaction-processing workloads while dramatically reducing costs and increasing flexibility. Read Now IBM adds OpenStack to its cloud marketplace To make it easier for users to build their own private and hybrid cloud systems, IBM has added its distribution of the OpenStack cloud hosting software to its recently launched online market of products and services. Read More Lenovo set to launch cloud-based services for mobile devices, data centers The ability to come up with cohesive cloud offering has eluded Lenovo for years, but the company is taking steps to offer more services that it can wrap around its mobile devices and enterprise products. Read More Box zings rivals with massive GE customer win Rocked recently by reports that it has delayed its IPO, Box rebounded with a major customer win, snapping up General Electric, which plans to roll out the cloud storage and file sharing service to its 300,000 employees worldwide. Read More Microsoft Azure tools aim to ease hybrid cloud management Microsoft has released a bevy of tools and services to help administrators connect their internal operations to Microsoft's Azure cloud. Read More
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