Google’s cloud courts enterprises with new networking features

	MBaaS shoot-out: 5 clouds for building mobile apps | Cloud expected to make up three-fourths of data center traffic by 2018
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	Google's cloud courts enterprises with new networking features Google today released a variety of new features for its public cloud in an effort to take on its two biggest rivals in the industry -- Amazon Web Services and Microsoft -- and perhaps even more importantly, to position its offering as a viable destination for enterprise workloads. Read More WEBCAST: Ciena Corporation Security+ Guide to Network Security Fundamentals Serious IT breaches happen too often. Is there a way to reduce or eliminate the impact on consumers? Attend this Live Webinar Dec. 2nd,1:00 PM ET / 10:00 AM PT to learn methods for protecting your information resources. 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View now MBaaS shoot-out: 5 clouds for building mobile apps MBaaS (mobile back end as a service) is a fairly new product category that has largely supplanted MEAPs (mobile enterprise application platforms). Over the past two months, I've closely examined five MBaaS systems: AnyPresence, Appcelerator, FeedHenry, Kinvey, and Parse. In this article, I'll wrap up the series by summarizing all five systems, surveying their common ground and key differences, and drawing conclusions. Read More Cloud expected to make up three-fourths of data center traffic by 2018 Over the next four years, data center traffic is expected to nearly triple, largely thanks to a booming cloud computing industry. That's according to Cisco's fourth annual Global Cloud Index, which predicts that the cloud will account for 76% of total data center traffic by 2018. Read More Microsoft's top legal gun decries privacy "arms race" The conflict between snooping governments seeking to defeat encryption and users demanding ever more robust privacy tools has turned into an arms race—and it's time for arms control talks, Microsoft's general counsel said on Tuesday. Read More : Venafi Securing Keys and Certificates to Critical Assets Today's most devastating cyber attacks—including ShellShock, Heartbleed and Zombie Zero—prey on trust. And that puts your digital certificates at risk. This informative resource center explores how next-generation trust protection can help you combat today's attacks, ensuring trusted access to critical assets. Learn More Michael Dell gets his payback, slams 'turmoil' at HP and IBM What a difference a year makes. For much of 2013, while Michael Dell was fighting a costly battle to take his company private, his rivals played up the distraction and did their best to lure his customers away. Now the shoe is on the other foot. Read More How to help Millennials prepare to be successful leaders As millennials continue to grow as the largest generation in the workforce, they will move into leadership roles in ways that are much different than generations before them – that is, without the prerequisites of certain job titles or number of years of experience. When they don't understand what the advancement path looks like, they will leave. Read More Startup promises to secure data centers, clouds workload by workload Illumio, a well-funded startup with an impressive list of customers, is wheeling out a data-center/cloud security platform that imposes individual security policies on every workload. Read More WEBCAST: EMC Redefine Your Mission-Critical Cloud with VMAX3 This webinar examines how EMC's VMAX3 storage solution provides unprecedented reliability, agility, cost-effectiveness and power in today's demanding storage environments. Learn More Microsoft to marry Office with Dropbox for cloud productivity In the latest example of Microsoft partnering with a major competitor, the company has struck a deal with Dropbox to improve interoperability between Office and Dropbox's cloud storage and file sharing services for consumers and businesses. Read More How NOT to do remote PC searches: Experts explain tech dangers of Rule 41 changes Among the Judicial Conference Advisory Committees on Appellate, Bankruptcy, Civil, and Criminal Rules proposed amendments are changes to Criminal Rule 41. Read More After criticizing it, Cisco joins Open Compute Cisco has joined the Open Compute Project, a Facebook-driven effort to develop open source servers and switches, 16 months after criticizing it. Read More
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