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Network World Cloud Computing Alert Apr 05, 2016 Startup helps quiet noisy cloud neighbors Startup AppFormix announced a partnership with Intel that allows the company's software to sniff out so called 'noisy neighbors', which are applications that share a cloud provider's physical resources. Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • Review: Databricks makes big data dreams come true • Microsoft fires back at AWS with Azure Functions service and more • Why you should own the key when encrypting data in the cloud • Kent State CIO talks about his cloud ambitions, accomplishments, and his new cloud book • Microsoft, Google make their pitches to unseat Amazon in the cloud • CloudFlare aims to block fewer legitimate Tor users • Healthcare organization adopts security as a utility   • How the cloud is transforming HR • Google cloud chief on tackling the enterprise White Paper: Red Hat Convincing Your Boss That Software-Defined Storage Is The Future You've probably heard the term software-defined storage. But how do you define it? And what does it really mean for the future of storage. If you've been trying to persuade your boss that software-defined storage is right for your organization. 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 ▶ Microsoft fires back at AWS with Azure Functions service and more On Thursday, Microsoft Executive Vice President Scott Guthrie fired back at Amazon in the ongoing public cloud wars with a set of new announcements of capabilities for Microsoft's Azure cloud platform. Read More ▶ Why you should own the key when encrypting data in the cloud Even if a cloud provider encrypts files after they arrive, it is critical you encrypt data before it's sent Read More ▶ 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 ▶ Microsoft, Google make their pitches to unseat Amazon in the cloud The past two weeks have been a bonanza of cloud conferences and they provide useful insight into the ongoing IaaS cloud wars between Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. Despite a flurry of announcements, the consensus is that neither Microsoft nor Google did anything over the past two weeks to unseat AWS, but it's clear the cloud wars are as hot as ever. Read More ▶ CloudFlare aims to block fewer legitimate Tor users CloudFlare is tweaking its systems to make it easier for legitimate Tor users to access websites that use its content delivery system. Read More ▶ Healthcare organization adopts security as a utility   Use of ProtectWise enables it to acquire, manage and operate their security architecture from the cloud 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 ▶ 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 ▶ White Paper: Red Hat Gartner Newsletter: Achieving Frictionless I.T. in a Bimodal World, Why Devops is the Bridge Towards Speed, Agility, and Innovation The cool vendors in this research are very diverse in their technical paradigms. This confirms that the DevOps "virtual" market is still very much in motion/forming and adds to the confusion of potential buyers. 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 9 new features in Windows 10 Terrible computer pranks that could get you fired Read More ▶ Most-Read Stories 1. Techie April Fools' Day – in pictures 2. MIT Media Lab defaults to free & open source software 3. Raspberry Pi + Google Coder = HTML + CSS + JS + node.js = way cool 4. 19 free cloud storage options 5. Ubuntu on Windows - The good, the bad and the just plain weird 6. Microsoft: Universal Windows apps will keep 'bit rot' from slowing your PC over time 7. 10 no-cost home security mobile apps worth a download 8. 7 free Wi-Fi stumbling and surveying tools for Windows and Mac 9. 5 things you should know about two-factor authentication 10. Salary Survey 2016: How does your compensation stack up?

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