IBM and Amazon are battling for an 'explosive' fed cloud market

	IT budgets, headcount set to grow in 2014: study | Georgia Tech warns of emerging threats in cloud, mobile
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	IBM and Amazon are battling for an 'explosive' fed cloud market The fight between IBM and Amazon Web Services (AWS) over a CIA cloud computing contract is just a preview of what's ahead. Federal investment in cloud computing is showing remarkable growth. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap 2013 NEW: IT Roadmap Washington, D.C. is all new for 2013! The content-rich agenda has been redesigned and reenergized to include increased IDG content from editors you know and trust and FIVE FOCUSED PILLARS OF TECHNOLOGY learning that are the most critical for the year ahead. Register now. Attend on December 12th. It's free! In this Issue IT budgets, headcount set to grow in 2014: study Georgia Tech warns of emerging threats in cloud, mobile Riverbed wins 7-vendor WAN optimization test 5 things to watch for at Amazon's cloud show PaaS market to reach $14 billion by 2017, IDC says Start-up Adallom takes on SaaS security monitoring/auditing Arbor Networks introduces cloud-based anti-DDoS service Best practices for safely moving data in and out of the cloud Red Hat expands OpenShift's European availability, slashes prices WEBCAST: Internap Does Virtualization Equal Cloud? Most cloud servers run in a virtualized environment and come with a hypervisor - meaning that the physical server is shared between many users who may be slamming the server and causing resource contention. Watch this video to learn how to benefit from the cloud without virtualization or a hypervisor. View now IT budgets, headcount set to grow in 2014: study Companies are still concerned about the economy, but that hasn't stopped them from funneling more of their revenue to the IT department, according to the latest survey data from the Society for Information Management (SIM). Read More Georgia Tech warns of emerging threats in cloud, mobile Companies will face next year emerging threats in cloud data storage that will demand security measures that go far beyond what is offered by service providers, a university report says. Read More Riverbed wins 7-vendor WAN optimization test As applications move to the cloud, network managers are seeing increasing requirements to optimize and manage WAN connections. Most enterprises have migrated to web-based applications and make heavy use of Internet services for day-to-day business. All of this makes network performance a key factor for productivity and end-user satisfaction. Read More WHITE PAPER: Internap The Top 5 Mistakes to Avoid in the Cloud While the cloud offers the promise of rapid scalability, flexibility and efficiency, there are important caveats to keep in mind when deploying in your organization. Learn the five most common mistakes (and how to avoid them) to help you ensure successful cloud deployment and adoption. View Now 5 things to watch for at Amazon's cloud show Last year some 6,000 attendees trekked out to Las Vegas for the first customer conference of what many consider to be the leading public IaaS cloud provider: Amazon Web Services. AWS re:Invent 2012 saw the launch of a new data analytics and warehousing product, price drops on its services, and lots of tips and tricks for how to use Amazon's cloud. Read More PaaS market to reach $14 billion by 2017, IDC says The global market for PaaS (platform as a service) is set to leap from US$3.8 billion last year to more than $14 billion in 2017 as companies look to cut infrastructure costs and speed up application development, according to newly released research from analyst firm IDC. Read More Start-up Adallom takes on SaaS security monitoring/auditing Start-up Adallom today introduced a cloud-based offering intended to help enterprises better monitor, audit and control use of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications by employees. Read More WHITE PAPER: Novell Mobile Zen: Balancing End-User Productivity and IT Control Mobility is often seen as a zero-sum game: either end users or IT can win, but never both. Learn how users can have the convenience and mobile productivity they need, while IT retains control over enterprise goods. Victory for both sides. Learn More Arbor Networks introduces cloud-based anti-DDoS service Arbor Networks today introduced its first cloud-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) mitigation service to protect enterprises against large-scale attacks intended to swallow up available bandwidth or knock application servers offline. Read More Best practices for safely moving data in and out of the cloud As everyone knows, cloud provider Nirvanix recently fell apart, declaring bankruptcy and leaving its customers in the lurch. Nirvanix gave enterprises less than a month to move their data to a new home. To avoid the fate of those customers, follow these best practices for safely moving data in and out of the cloud. Read More Red Hat expands OpenShift's European availability, slashes prices Red Hat is cutting prices on the commercial version of its OpenShift Online PaaS (platform as a service) and making it available in more European countries, moves aimed at gaining a stronger foothold in one of the enterprise software industry's hottest segments. Read More
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