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	Internap launches first public OpenStack cloud Look out Amazon. OpenStack is shaping up to be a game changer in the cloud world. Today, Atlanta-based Internap Network Services announced the launch of the first public cloud built on OpenStack. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Cloud ready business intelligence Learn how Oracle BI's web services based SOA architecture, metadata based design, standards based security integration, common federated access to multiple data sources and common systems management capabilities make it a good fit for both cloud and non cloud type deployments. Read Now In this Issue ABC's of ADCs in the cloud Are you ready for networking in the cloud? 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They provide key functions including server load balancing, monitoring the health of servers and apps; protecting the data center from distributed denial-of-service attacks, performing SSL encryption and decryption; making servers more efficient by managing connections, running specialized application scripts and accelerating applications. Read More Are you ready for networking in the cloud? The two primary forms of public cloud computing, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), are both growing dramatically in popularity. Over the last few years, the primary focus of the IaaS providers has been on offering the basic compute and storage resources required to run applications. Read More The cloud solves those lingering supply chain problems When consumes ship FedEx packages they get a reliable, impressive IT experience as part of that $10 service. Yet many of the world's biggest corporations still only dream of having FedEx-like technology to support their global supply chain operations, but cloud-based services promise to change that. Read More WHITE PAPER: ExtraHop Application Performance Management In this eGuide, Network World, with sister publication CIO, offer news on the latest trends, best practices, and straightforward advice on these solutions and the challenges of managing application performance. Learn More! Look who's getting ready for legal online gambling Regular readers know that the legalization of online gambling - poker, in particular - is a hobbyhorse of mine. Not only do I believe that it should be legal, regulated and taxed, I further believe that opposition to it boils down to paternalism that I find not only wrong-headed but downright offensive. Read More U.S. CIO: Changing the culture of federal IT U.S. CIO Steven VanRoekel hopes cloud computing, Web services and a new IT culture of sharing can reap huge savings and prop up Uncle Sam. Read More Security as a service – What's inside counts This week I'm writing about cloud-based security services, or Security as a Service (SECaaS). What's great about it is that it's delivered as a service with typically no on-premise gear required. In addition, it's generally pay as you go, and it's elastic. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Three steps to agile change Comprehensive IT change configuration and release management (CCRM) continues to confound and frustrate both IT and the business units for which it provides services. But by first instituting the appropriate foundational processes and supporting tools, many enterprises are experiencing renewed CCRM success. Read Now GoGrid to offer dedicated line between its data centers Infrastructure-as-a-service provider GoGrid is adding a dedicated line service between its facilities so users can be sure of fast and secure transfers. Read More Google+ comes to the enterprise via Google Apps Google announced that its new social networking site is now integrated with Google Apps, its cloud-based office suite. Read More Social media, virtual meetings help firms enter markets and save capital When cloud computing service provider Nimbula hires employees for its South Africa development office, the Mountain View, California, company turns to social networking, not recruiters, to find workers. The company also uses video conferencing to conduct interviews with job candidates and to demonstrate software to potential customers, which saves travel expenses. 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