When storms hit, the Weather Company needs the cloud

	U.S. CIO tells IT leaders to trust the cloud | Amazon's case for running containers in its cloud
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	When storms hit, the Weather Company needs the cloud When major storms hit, the team at the Weather Channel wants to focus on the science behind the weather and getting information out to the people who need it most. That's why the Weather Company has gone all-in with the cloud. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CloudBasic Amazon cloud tools compete with Microsoft at 1/10 the cost New cloud server replication tools from Amazon Web Services marketplace deliver enterprise-class database High-Availability (HA) benefits. Read more In this Issue U.S. CIO tells IT leaders to trust the cloud INSIDER Amazon's case for running containers in its cloud The sun will soon set on HP's Helion Public Cloud EMC and VMware create Virtustream-based cloud business unit INSIDER NetApp's new CEO talks about hybrid cloud, customer challenges How higher ed IT is staying ahead of the cloud computing curve Real world lessons from AWS re:Invent 2015 RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Akamai New case study of attacks analysis Utilizing new social tactics and DDoS methodology, the activities of extortionist group DD4BC increased dramatically and targeted larger organizations over one calendar year. Over 140 DDoS attacks attacks confirmed as DD4BC were observed by Akamai with the financial services sector amongst the most often targeted. Akamai's newly released Case Study: Summary of Operation DD4BC provides attack analysis, examples of extortion letters and security suggestion organizations can take to avoid becoming a target can be downloaded at:http://bit.ly/1gre3KY U.S. CIO tells IT leaders to trust the cloud Tony Scott, U.S. federal government CIO, says big cloud providers are just as secure as today's largest financial institutions and advises his fellow IT leaders to embrace cloud sooner than later. Read More INSIDER Amazon's case for running containers in its cloud Amazon Web Services is evolving its platform in an effort to convince customers that its cloud is the best spot to run application containers. Some are buying in. Read More The sun will soon set on HP's Helion Public Cloud Earlier this year HP let slip that the public cloud may not be a place it wants to compete, and on Wednesday it followed through on that suggestion with an announcement that it will shutter its Helion Public Cloud for good. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: HP CIO Live Event: Big Data versus Corporate Culture Need help building a strong business case for big data analytics? Then join the next CIO live webcast Tuesday, November 3 at 2:00PM ET. Steve Haindl, Executive Vice President of Technology and Innovation at Holman Automotive Group will provide top tips on creating an effective and long-term data driven corporate culture! CIO Live: Is your corporate culture impeding Big Data innovation? Steve Haindl discusses in live webcast November 3, 2:00PM ET - http://bit.ly/1jDLegg #CIOLive EMC and VMware create Virtustream-based cloud business unit EMC and VMware today announced a new cloud computing business unit that will operate under the Virtustream brand. The news comes on the heels of Dell announcing it would purchase EMC for $67 billion. Read More INSIDER NetApp's new CEO talks about hybrid cloud, customer challenges In this installment of the IDG CEO Interview Series, new NetApp CEO George Kurian spoke with Chief Content Officer John Gallant about the reasons for the leadership change and how he plans to deal with the financial and product migration issues NetApp has faced. Kurian explored NetApp's 'data fabric' strategy and talked about how the company is positioning itself as the best provider of hybrid cloud solutions. Read More How higher ed IT is staying ahead of the cloud computing curve Signs that cloud computing is for real are piling up around Carnegie Mellon University's Tom Dugas, but perhaps nothing else brings this home like the fact that the renowned Pittsburgh research school has posted a job opening for its first-ever cloud architect. Read More Real world lessons from AWS re:Invent 2015 Amazon Web Services' signature conference continues to show how customers both large and small are solving their real IT challenges, which is one of the reasons it's evolved into a must-attend conference. Read More
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