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	Google Drive for Business boosts data retention features in crowded market One of the key ways of getting businesses to adopt new technology is to ensure that it meets with all of users' discovery and compliance requirements, including data retention and deletion. If a company already deletes some or all of its data after a certain period of time, a new service needs to comply with that. Read More   In this Issue Apple drops iCloud prices, matches rival storage services from Google and Microsoft 3 big takeaways from Amazon's latest cloud outage Startup Syncano wants to take some coding chores off developers' hands HP's divide, layoff and conquer strategy a challenge for managers Amazon rolls out cold cloud storage option Is public cloud really a $20 billion quarterly industry? AWS glitch strikes Netflix and Tinder, offering a wake-up call for others Benioff backs Salesforce away from the cloud Juniper lines up Aerohive for cloud WLANs Arista expands its portfolio with 25, 50, and 100-Gig data center switches INSIDER Is OpenStack ready for prime time? WHITE PAPER: Windstream Communications The Rising Popularity of Unified Communications in the Cloud Discover top trends and best practices for moving UC to the cloud in this Nemertes Report. Learn More Apple drops iCloud prices, matches rival storage services from Google and Microsoft For the second year in a row, Apple reduced prices for its expanded iCloud storage plans, putting costs in line with rivals like Google, Microsoft and Dropbox. Read More   3 big takeaways from Amazon's latest cloud outage In the wee hours of Sunday morning something went very wrong in an Amazon Web Services data center. Amazon's latest cloud outage stirs up a debate in the cloud. Read More   Startup Syncano wants to take some coding chores off developers' hands A startup that will provide back-end components to front-end developers says its service should make it easier for enterprises to write applications, including ones for the so-called Internet of Things. The company, Syncano, aims to help developers focus on things like user experience or unique capabilities rather than underlying functions. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems   SDN: An Emerging Reality Are you analyzing the potential value SDN offers? You're not alone. A 2015 survey revealed that 36% of IT leaders are doing the same. This Network World Digital Spotlight highlights how SDN will be implemented, key problems SDNs address, adoption inhibitors, integration concerns, the role OpenFlow will (or will not) play. Learn More HP's divide, layoff and conquer strategy a challenge for managers On Tuesday, Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman announced the company plans to lay off go an additional 25,000 to 30,000 workers in an attempt to "enable a more competitive, sustainable cost structure" for the new company -- or, companies. Read More   Amazon rolls out cold cloud storage option   Amazon Web Services today launched a new, less-expensive flavor of its cloud-based object storage service meant for data that is infrequently accessed (IA). Read More   Is public cloud really a $20 billion quarterly industry? Public cloud is big, and it's growing fast. Nobody will deny that. But Synergy Research Group's latest estimate that IT corporations earned $20 billion in revenue thanks to the public cloud seems a little high. Is this fuzzy math or is the cloud really this big? Read More   WHITE PAPER: Windstream Communications The Path to Value in the Cloud The Path to Value in the Cloud, by Oxford Economics and Windstream, brings together the latest insights, tactics and strategies C-suite respondents are using to make the cloud work for them. Learn More AWS glitch strikes Netflix and Tinder, offering a wake-up call for others Netflix, Tinder and other major websites were affected for a time Sunday by glitches in Amazon Web Services' Northern Virginia facility, offering a cautionary lesson to other companies that rely on the cloud service for mission-critical capabilities. Read More   Benioff backs Salesforce away from the cloud Salesforce.com is seen as one of the pioneering inventors of the cloud computing market, but company co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff says Salesforce is not about the cloud. Read More   Juniper lines up Aerohive for cloud WLANs Juniper Networks has allied with Aerohive Networks to offer cloud-managed Wi-Fi with it switches, an alternative to Cisco's Meraki cloud-based WLAN product. The Aerohive arrangement follows a recent partnership Juniper struck with Ruckus Wireless to deliver a unified wired and wireless system to mid-size and large enterprise customers, including education and hospitality. Read More   Arista expands its portfolio with 25, 50, and 100-Gig data center switches It seems 10 Gig Ethernet (Gig-E) technology has been the de facto standard in data centers for the better part of a decade now. Frankly, 10 Gig-E is still a lot of bandwidth and is fine for most businesses. However, it cannot cost-effectively meet the bandwidth requirements of next-generation cloud and web-scale environments. Read More     INSIDER Is OpenStack ready for prime time? If you listen to the hype surrounding OpenStack, it's nothing less than a panacea offering fast, relatively easy, cost-efficient tools for deploying enterprise apps as cloud services. Some analysts are far less bullish, arguing that building a private cloud with OpenStack is a daunting task. (Insider Story) Read More
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