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Thursday, August 04, 2011

Amazon boosts identity management, private cloud offerings

Barracuda doubles capacity of cloud storage, retains pricing | Subway changes its menu, adds SaaS

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Amazon boosts identity management, private cloud offerings
Amazon Web Services will introduce new capabilities for enterprises on Thursday, including identity federation and support for private network connections to AWS. Read More


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Making the Promise of Cloud a Reality
Whether a business builds out its own cloud or buys cloud services from someone else, they need to be sure the end results are optimized for the speed users require. This paper identifies where the limitations of cloud computing exist and provides actionable strategies to unleash cloud performance. Read now!

Barracuda doubles capacity of cloud storage, retains pricing
Barracuda Networks announced it has doubled the amount of cloud storage capacity available to customers of its backup service, but it kept the price at $50 per month. Read More

Subway changes its menu, adds SaaS
Subway is a fast-food franchisor with some 35,000 restaurants worldwide. Like many big enterprises, it expected to host a new mission-critical spending-management system in-house. It ended up doing the exact opposite. Read More

Intel extends cloud research to consumer devices
Intel is opening up two research centers at Carnegie Mellon university that will develop technology around delivery of real-time information to consumer electronics aggregated from millions of cloud sources, the company said on Wednesday. Read More


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Maximizing The Cloud To Your Needs
Today's enterprise is increasingly IT-dependent and network-based, requiring agile IT infrastructure sourcing approaches to meet rapidly changing business objectives. See how a dynamic, cloud-based infrastructure can flexibly supports key business needs—and whether it's right for your organization. Read now!

Xen developers conference showcases the future of virtualization and the cloud
One of my favorite sayings is, "Open source software is as much about people as it is about technology." This week in Santa Clara, CA over one hundred people active in the open source Xen hypervisor community – largely developers and power users – gathered to discuss the state of the popular open source hypervisor. Read More

CloudTV maker wins $115M suit against Verizon
Cloud-based TV infrastructure company ActiveVideo has won a US$115 million judgment against Verizon Communications for infringement of its patents. Read More

Cloud-based vs. premise-based VoIP
We recently had a chance to interview two executives at RingCentral about the company's cloud-based voice services, with much of the discussion focused on how a cloud-based service compares to a premise-based VoIP system. Explaining the differences simply, Victoria Treyger, CMO at RingCentral, said, "RingCentral is both the phone system (which replaces the PBX) and the phone service." Read More


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Performance Metrics and the Cloud
Unlike static configuration management databases, which often contain information too outdated for real-time understanding, a dynamic operational service model provides relevant, timely information. Read More

The impact of cloud balancing on application delivery
This is the second of two newsletters that is focused on the impact that cloud computing is having on application delivery. With that objective in mind, this newsletter will look at the pros and cons of cloud balancing. Read More

Google, data centers using less power than expected
Data centers have been using less electricity than you think ... or at least, than they have in the past. Read More

GE pushes ahead with 500GB holographic disc storage
GE is about to begin distribution of holographic optical disc technology and plans to license it to manufacturing partners in the next few months. But a rival company, InPhase, says its own holographic technology is better. Read More

Big tech names Dell, Torvalds among Google+ early adopters
Part of the buzz about Google+ is that Google is reportedly working to lure celebrities such as Lady Gaga to its new social network service with verified accounts. Not sure if tech big shots beyond Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg count as celebrities, but the list of the technology industry's biggest names using Google+ is on the rise. Read More

ENIAC still influencing enterprise IT 68 years later
Sixty-eight years ago this month, construction began quietly on ENIAC, the first electronic computer that was built for the U.S. Army to speed up the calculation of ordnance trajectories for soldiers in wartime. Read More



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