Kent State CIO talks about his cloud ambitions, accomplishments, and his new cloud book

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Network World Cloud Computing Alert Mar 31, 2016 Kent State CIO talks about his cloud ambitions, accomplishments, and his new cloud book Ed Mahon says cloud enables him to better utilize IT staff, normalize the budget process by focusing on operating expenses, and minimize unused system capacity Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • How the cloud is transforming HR • 10 big announcements from Google's Cloud Conference • Make the most of free Amazon Web Services • HexaTier secures all those databases in the cloud • User-controlled, private clouds could help with security, think scientists • How to set up a portable, non-cloud-based password manager • Google cloud chief on tackling the enterprise • Most managed security tools will be cloud based by 2020, IHS predicts • Review: Databricks makes big data dreams come true White Paper: Juniper Networks 2016 Predictions: Security Solutions The security market will continue to evolve alongside new requirements arising from the Internet of Things, cloud computing and sophisticated targeted attacks. Read More ▶ How the cloud is transforming HR Cloud computing promises benefits in numerous functional areas, but in few has the impact been felt as keenly as in human resources. Read More ▶ 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 ▶ 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 ▶ HexaTier secures all those databases in the cloud Another day, another Israeli security firm. It must be something in the water. 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 ▶ How to set up a portable, non-cloud-based password manager Setting up a non-cloud based password manager in which the password database can be accessed from more than one device is easier than it sounds. 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 ▶ Most managed security tools will be cloud based by 2020, IHS predicts Even as security remains a concern for cloud users, research firm IHS says managed security vendors are increasingly delivering their security products via the cloud. By 2020, most managed security services will be delivered via the cloud, IHS predicts. Read More ▶ Review: Databricks makes big data dreams come true Cloud-based Spark machine learning and analytics platform is an excellent, full-featured product for data scientists Read More ▶ White Paper: Juniper Networks 3 Major Challenges to Securing Your Data Is your enterprise planning to leverage cloud computing and mobile computing in order to improve business agility, increase employee productivity, and lower capital expenses? 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. Is the Cisco 6500 Series invincible? 2. Arista takes on Cisco, Juniper at routing 3. Oracle seeks $9.3 billion for Google's use of Java in Android 4. NAND mirroring proof-of-concept show that FBI could use it to crack iPhone 5. 19 free cloud storage options 6. US Federal Courts warn of aggressive scammers 7. 9 ways technology will change within the next 10 years 8. 5 IoT trends to expect in 2016 9. 9 new features in Windows 10 10. 7 free Wi-Fi stumbling and surveying tools for Windows and Mac

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