The enterprise wish-list for the hybrid cloud

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CIO Cloud Computing Oct 31, 2016 The enterprise wish-list for the hybrid cloud A group of enterprises like General Electric, Pfizer, Cap and Citigroup have come together with a wish list of how they would like public IaaS providers like Amazon, Microsoft and Google to make their clouds more interoperable. Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • Cloud services lift IT outsourcing market higher than expected • Platforms in the cloud take heavy lifting out of architecture tasks • Startup Nubeva pitches Security-as-a-Service in the cloud • Cloud growth continues to be the name of the game for Microsoft • Azure brings SQL Server Analysis Services to the cloud • IBM is folding SoftLayer into its Bluemix cloud services portfolio • AWS quietly launches tool for migrating on-premesis apps to the cloud • MySQL face-off: Amazon outscales Google • If you're just thinking about cloud it's already too late Case Study: IBM Corporation Case Study: Simplify, Save and Innovate Learn how IBM helped a leading bank's IT organization focus on innovation and strategic projects while massively reducing costs and streamlining operations. Read More ▶ Cloud services lift IT outsourcing market higher than expected The global IT and business services industry had its strongest third quarter to date, bolstered by the record-high value in the as-a-service segment of the market. Read More ▶ Platforms in the cloud take heavy lifting out of architecture tasks As tech giants battle for cloud dominance, businesses looking to offload heavy-duty infrastructure tasks are reaping hefty rewards from platform-as-a-service offerings. Here's how three IT leaders mixed and matched their powerful yet flexible PaaS packages. Read More ▶ Startup Nubeva pitches Security-as-a-Service in the cloud A team made up of executives from Aruba Networks and Panzura are out with a new self-funded startup this week that aims to deploy security tools that enterprises use in their campus and extend it to the cloud. Read More ▶ Cloud growth continues to be the name of the game for Microsoft Microsoft's ongoing move to the cloud paid off once again over the past quarter, as strong growth from Azure and Office 365 offset declines in the PC market. Read More ▶ Azure brings SQL Server Analysis Services to the cloud SQL Server Analysis Services, one of the key features of Microsoft's relational database enterprise offering, is going to the cloud. The company announced Tuesday that it's launching the public beta of Azure Analysis Services, which gives users access to semantic data modeling tools in the cloud. Read More ▶ IBM is folding SoftLayer into its Bluemix cloud services portfolio IBM is ditching the SoftLayer brand for its public cloud infrastructure, replacing it with Bluemix, the name it uses for the rest of its cloud services portfolio. Read More ▶ AWS quietly launches tool for migrating on-premesis apps to the cloud Amazon is trying to simplify the process of moving legacy applications to the cloud with a new service that it quietly launched this week. The aptly-named Server Migration Service is designed to help IT teams set up the incremental replication of virtual machines from their on-premises infrastructure to Amazon's cloud. Read More ▶ MySQL face-off: Amazon outscales Google Google Cloud SQL performance may beat Amazon Aurora at low thread counts, but Aurora owns the high end Read More ▶ If you're just thinking about cloud it's already too late Many IT leaders are pondering the meaning of 'cloud' and how what it's impact might be. Yet, as we we watch and wait the pace of change in technology has never been faster. Read More ▶ White Paper: IBM Corporation Data Warehouse Modernization in the Age of Big Data Analytics No matter the vintage or sophistication of your organization's data warehouse (DW) and the environment around it, it probably needs to be modernized in one or more ways. Read More ▶ 5 strategies to reboot your IT career Whether you cut your teeth on Unix and AIX or you tire of doing the necessary but thankless tasks that come with keeping the lights on and the datacenter humming, there's still time to reinvent yourself. Here's how. ▶ 12 hardware and software vulnerabilities you should address now Hardware and software that live past their end-of-life dates pose serious risks to organizations. Find out which assets you should update, upgrade or replace ASAP. ▶ Got 15 minutes? Take the 2017 Salary Survey and enter to win $500 Computerworld's annual salary survey shines a bright light on IT compensation. The more respondents, the better the results will be – and participants can enter a drawing to win 1 of 3 $500 American Express gift checks. Take the 2017 IT Salary Survey. ▶

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