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	Free clouds! Piston latest to jump on 'freemium' bandwagon Piston Cloud Computing -- which bills itself as the OpenStack enterprise company -- is the latest cloud vendor to offer a free or low-cost version of its software for customer trials and proofs of concepts. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems 9 Reasons Why Citrix NetScaler Beats F5 Is your network ready for the Cloud? Not with F5. Shift to Citrix NetScaler. • 2x consolidation – for less • 2x faster 2048-bit SSL performance • 5x capacity on demand – no new hardware. • All functionality, all devices, all the time. Download 9 Reasons Citrix NetScaler beats F5. Learn More In this Issue INSIDER Red Hat CEO: We're the cloud leader -- with Linux Rackspace boosts cloud offerings with monitoring service 10 Gmail tools to supercharge your inbox Cloud provider: The best security for your passwords is to never give them to us New video compression technology will cut bandwidth use in half, says Ericsson Self service: The most understated reason why SDNs will rock your world Zoho cloud apps hit with service disruption Amazon Web Services launches low-cost storage service FCC cites broadband gaps: Digital divide persists Workday adds time-tracking module to cloud HCM software WHITE PAPER: AMD Private Clouds and AMD Processors: A Match Made in IT Heaven Private clouds offer significant promise. This AMD white paper defines private clouds, describes how they are deployed, and discusses their allure. Read on to learn everything you need to know about private cloud technology and discover why the right microprocessor technology serves as a critical building block for private clouds. Learn More! INSIDER Red Hat CEO: We're the cloud leader -- with Linux Jim Whitehurst says it's not just Red Hat's products, but its philosophy that place it at the forefront of cloud computing. Read More Rackspace boosts cloud offerings with monitoring service Rackspace has released Cloud Monitoring, which includes an API designed to give users flexibility in monitoring websites and Web applications that run on a variety of platforms, the company said on Wednesday. Read More 10 Gmail tools to supercharge your inbox From dynamic contact tracking to analytics in your inbox, these add-ons and services provide enhanced capabilities for both casual and power Gmail users. Read More WHITE PAPER: VMware Hardest Problems in Data Management Arguably one of the hardest problems - and consequently most exciting opportunities - faced by today's solution designers is figuring out how to leverage this on-demand hardware to build an optimal data management platform. Read Now! Cloud provider: The best security for your passwords is to never give them to us Ethan Oberman, CEO of cloud backup and sharing service SpiderOak, has a proposition for enterprises that may be leery about using the cloud because of a perceived lack of security. The best security for cloud storage, he says, is to encrypt the data and not give your service provider the keys to unencrypt it. Read More New video compression technology will cut bandwidth use in half, says Ericsson HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) will revolutionize delivery of TV services to all types of devices including smartphones and tablets, according to Ericsson, which will launch what it says will be the first live TV encoder compatible with the technology at the IBC trade show next month. Read More Self service: The most understated reason why SDNs will rock your world As I noted previously, two surveys give different pictures about SDNs. My take: every enterprise will adopt SDNs, but lower hardware prices will not be the biggest reason. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Join the scale revolution for cloud ready networks Today's cloud evolution requires a full scale revolution. Citrix TriScale technology transforms enterprise data centers into highly scalable enterprise clouds. Download this whitepaper and learn how to scale your cloud network for more elastic performance, seamless expansion and simple consolidation. Learn More Zoho cloud apps hit with service disruption Zoho Web-hosted collaboration, communication, business and office productivity applications suffered performance problems and service disruptions on Wednesday for about three hours. Read More Amazon Web Services launches low-cost storage service Amazon Web Services has announced Glacier, a low-cost storage service that has been customized for data archiving and backup, the company said on Monday. Read More FCC cites broadband gaps: Digital divide persists In the FCC's eighth survey of the broadband landscape it was acknowledged that ISPs have made progress in expanding their network footprints, but significant gaps in coverage still exist. The report has therefore concluded that broadband providers are not moving toward universal service in a "reasonable and timely" fashion. Read More Workday adds time-tracking module to cloud HCM software Workday is expanding its cloud-based human resources and financial applications' footprint with a new employee time-tracking module, the company announced. Read More
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