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Network World Cloud Computing Alert Nov 01, 2016 IBM, LEGO offer Macs as recruiting tool In a tight labor market, employers aim to differentiate themselves on multiple fronts, including tech. Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • MySQL face-off: Amazon outscales Google • IT departments becoming 'obsolete' • Azure brings SQL Server Analysis Services to the cloud • Google is trying to reinvent the whiteboard • OpenStack: It's interoperable after all • Startup Nubeva pitches Security as a Service in the cloud • IBM is folding SoftLayer into its Bluemix cloud services portfolio • Your network, IoT, cloud computing and the future • AWS quietly launches tool for migrating on-premesis apps to the cloud White Paper: Softchoice Corporation 5 Steps to Good Azure Governance Cloud computing has come a long way in recent years, from a nebulous buzz term, to an instrumental driver of almost every serious IT department on the planet. Windows Azure, Microsoft's umbrella brand for its cloud services and tools, has been a key contributor to the cloud's meteoric rise in enterprises and businesses everywhere. 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 ▶ IT departments becoming 'obsolete' Cloud computing, smartphones and as-a-service software products are killing off the traditional, 'dark days' IT department, says printer manufacturer Brother. 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 ▶ Google is trying to reinvent the whiteboard What's big, red, and supposed to be the next big thing in workplace collaboration? Google's new Jamboard, a massive touch display and accompanying cloud service that's supposed to help business users brainstorm together. Read More ▶ OpenStack: It's interoperable after all 17 OpenStack cloud vendors completed the Interop Challenge, and the results prove OpenStack is interoperable. 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 ▶ 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 ▶ Your network, IoT, cloud computing and the future Several trends, including cloud computing and the Internet of Things, may have implications for how the internet and your network will evolve. 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 ▶ White Paper: Softchoice Corporation The State of Cloud Readiness: Transformation and Strategic Adoption Measured IT departments no longer dispute that the cloud is crucial to their success. Cloud services like Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services have evolved into robust solutions that can meet the increasing business demands on IT. 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