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	Netflix uncages Chaos Monkey disaster testing system Netflix has released Chaos Monkey, which it uses internally to test the resiliency of its Amazon Web Services cloud computing architecture, making available for free one of the tools the video streaming company uses to keep its massive cloud computing architecture running. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Application Delivery Optimization Fueled by users who are hyper-sensitive to delays in application delivery, organizations are striving to improve performance by optimizing delivery. Learn how to achieve that goal without sacrificing the agility of modern data center architectures. Learn More! In this Issue Mexico hotel giant puts its IT in Texas The 5 hottest IT jobs right now Under competitive pressure, Dropbox doubles capacity, not prices Higgs boson researchers consider move to cloud computing The Day VMware ate Cisco Oracle buys Xsigo for software-defined networking Microsoft Office 2013 fires shot at Google's enterprise push The 7 most common challenges to cloud computing Disaster recovery plans get new urgency Dell's cloud plans slip behind schedule WHITE PAPER: Teradata The Private Cloud Private clouds are emerging as a way for enterprises to take advantage of many of the benefits of the cloud model, but with less risk. This eBook discusses why private cloud models are the best choice for many organizations today. Learn more. Mexico hotel giant puts its IT in Texas The U.S. has been shipping application development work offshore for years, but cloud computing may help make America a data center services exporter. Read More The 5 hottest IT jobs right now If you're an IT professional with experience building mobile or cloud applications, it's a good time to be job hunting. That's because the number of job openings in these areas is up dramatically from last summer. Read More Under competitive pressure, Dropbox doubles capacity, not prices Uder pressure from Google Drive and other industry heavyweights, Dropbox announced it is doubling the capacity of its Pro 50 and Pro 100 online storage options and will also offer a new 500GB service plan. Read More WEBCAST: SAP Automate Your Partners for Efficient E-Business Join IDC's Maureen Fleming and SAP for an insightful Webcast on the different approaches companies are taking to B2B integration and how you can ask the right questions to reassess your B2B approach. Learn More Higgs boson researchers consider move to cloud computing How did European researchers working on the Higgs boson recently make one of the most revolutionary physics discoveries in recent decades? From an IT perspective, they relied on a good old-fashioned grid computing infrastructure, though a new cloud-based one may be in the offing. Read More The Day VMware ate Cisco With as much as we have all seen and heard for the past several years about the cloud, sometimes things happen that make you realize just how real the drastic changes facing the networking industry really are. And the purchase of Nicira by VMware this week is one of those moments. Read More Oracle buys Xsigo for software-defined networking Oracle said Monday it has inked a deal to buy software-defined networking vendor Xsigo Systems, in a move that will support Oracle's ongoing foray into cloud computing. Terms of the acquisition, which is expected to close within a few months, were not disclosed. Read More WHITE PAPER: Blue Coat Systems, Cisco Systems, and Citrix Systems The 2012 Accelerating the Cloud Challenge The Cloud is not magic. Enterprises still need to ensure that Service Levels are met and key to this are their Application Delivery solutions. Their WAN Optimization Controllers (WOCs) and Application Delivery Solutions (ADCs) play a key role in making their SaaS implementations and their deployment to the Cloud a success. Learn more. Microsoft Office 2013 fires shot at Google's enterprise push With the upcoming release of Office 2013, Microsoft is putting a lot of focus on the cloud in a bid to compete with Google. Read More The 7 most common challenges to cloud computing It's no secret that agencies core to the U.S. government has as a central plan - known as Cloud First -- to move most operations toward a cloud computing service. In the process of course is a never-ending evaluation by other agencies to talk about how those cloud implementations are doing. Read More Disaster recovery plans get new urgency Increasing numbers of weather-related disasters -- violent storms, wildfires that have ravaged more than 2 million acres in the Rocky Mountains and drought conditions affecting some two-thirds of the United States -- should have IT executives scurrying to update disaster recovery plans. Read More Dell's cloud plans slip behind schedule Dell announced an aggressive schedule last year to roll out cloud-based application services, but it now looks like the schedule was a little too aggressive. Read More
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