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Network World Cloud Computing Alert Mar 29, 2016 10 big announcements from Google's Cloud Conference At its big cloud user conference this week Google added some core features for enterprise customers and some fancy new machine learning tools too. Check out the top 10 announcements from Google Cloud Platform NEXT. Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • User-controlled, private clouds could help with security, think scientists • Google cloud chief on tackling the enterprise • Make the most of free Amazon Web Services • Google's new Stackdriver service can manage applications across multiple clouds • Google explains its cloud computing vision for enterprises and startups • Is Google pushing the cloud envelope too far? • Oracle wants to put its public cloud behind your firewall • IDC: SD-WAN market to hit $6B by 2020 • Is the hybrid cloud's biggest challenge a lack of expertise? Research/Infographic: Ixia Infographic: What is the Cost of One More Test? Think you can't afford one more test before launch? Consider the the cost of cleanup if there's a breach. Read More ▶ User-controlled, private clouds could help with security, think scientists A total reversal of how permissions and PII is stored is proposed by computer scientists. Read More ▶ Google cloud chief on tackling the enterprise Google's cloud leader discusses one of the biggest IT challenges related to enterprise cloud deployments and offers advice on how companies can identify the business functions that are best suited for the cloud. Read More ▶ Make the most of free Amazon Web Services If you avoid the gotchas and keep a close eye on resource consumption, you can have a useful server in the Amazon cloud for free Read More ▶ Google's new Stackdriver service can manage applications across multiple clouds Google is aiming to help companies manage their applications running across public and private clouds with a new product and a set of partnerships announced at its cloud user conference Wednesday. Read More ▶ Google explains its cloud computing vision for enterprises and startups Google wants to grow its cloud customers by giving them the same security, data centers and open source machine learning, containers and orchestration tools it uses. Read More ▶ Is Google pushing the cloud envelope too far? At its Google Cloud Platform Next conference in San Francisco, Google's top executives launched a variety of new cloud features, but some are wondering if the company is too far ahead of where customers are in their use of cloud services. Read More ▶ Oracle wants to put its public cloud behind your firewall Public clouds may promise a world of potential benefits, but for companies grappling with data sovereignty and other issues, the risks can loom large. Hoping to ease such concerns, Oracle launched a product on Thursday that effectively puts its public cloud behind the enterprise firewall. Read More ▶ IDC: SD-WAN market to hit $6B by 2020 IDC for the first time has forecast the size of the SD-WAN market to be a nascent $225 million last year, but growing at a 90% compound annual growth rate to $6 billion by 2020, driven by the adoption of cloud services and mobile workers. Read More ▶ Is the hybrid cloud's biggest challenge a lack of expertise? Making the business case for embracing cloud services isn't the challenge it once was. What is proving to be more of a hurdle to wider-scale cloud adoption is the lack of expertise, experience and resources to take advantage of what's now possible. Read More ▶ White Paper: OpenText ArcelorMittal Deploying a Seamless Global B2B Network ArcelorMittal Deploying a Seamless Global B2B Network Read More ▶ Join The Network World Communities As network pros you understand that the value of connections increase as the number of connections increase, the so called network effect, and no where is this more evident than in professional relationships. Join Network World's LinkedIn and Facebook communities to share ideas, post questions, see what your peers are working on and scout out job applicants (or maybe find your next opportunity). Network World on Facebook ▶ Network World on LinkedIn ▶ SLIDESHOWS The most momentous tech events of the past 30 years 25 real-life ways people have been hurt using their phones Read More ▶ Most-Read Stories 1. Microsoft's AI Tay offends and goes offline; Deepdrumpf AI snarks 2. iPhone 7 Rumor Rollup: Here come the airpods and 4K display; beyond the Phablet; iPhone 5SE mocking 3. 19 free cloud storage options 4. 10 big announcements from Google's Cloud Conference 5. 9 ways technology will change within the next 10 years 6. Thumbing through issue No. 1 of NetworkWorld 7. FAQ: What you need to know about 802.11ax Wi-Fi 8. 7 free Wi-Fi stumbling and surveying tools for Windows and Mac 9. Data scientist Hilary Mason wants to show you the (near) future 10. iPhone SE reviews are glowing as device now available for pre-order

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