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5 reasons why Google can catch Amazon in the cloud
Google, according to industry analysts, is positioning itself to take on Amazon's dominance as a cloud provider. While it's lagging today, Google could catch Amazon and some day supplant its top position in the cloud. Read More

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Infographic: Eliminating Desktop Virtualization Bottlenecks
Organizations are turning to desktop virtualization to provide greater mobility, reduce IT costs and improve security. Find out why more and more organizations today are turning to converged architectures to deploy virtual desktops efficiently. Learn more

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WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems, Cisco, & NetApp

University of Tennesse Knoxville success story
The University of Tennessee Knoxville needed a desktop virtualization solution to support anywhere, anytime student computing while conserving IT resources and budget. Discover how an integrated infrastructure from NetApp, Cisco and Citrix helped them simplify deployment, reduce costs and minimize risk. Learn more

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Healthcare IT pros laud security, privacy tools
Healthcare IT spending is projected to hit $34.5 billion in North America this year as organizations wrestle with healthcare reform, adoption of electronic records, and the proliferation of digital and wireless medical devices. Read More

Judge to Microsoft: Hand over cloud data no matter where in the world it is stored
"The U.S. government doesn't have the power to search a home in another country, nor should it have the power to search the content of email stored overseas," wrote Microsoft Deputy General Counsel David Howard. That was last week when Microsoft challenged the power of US government-issued search warrants seeking customer content stored exclusively outside the US. Read More

IBM puts all its cloud services in one place
IBM has assembled a vast array of hosted cloud services, and now it has somewhere to show them off. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Apperian

Unlock the Value of Enterprise Mobility
Download this guide and learn how to manage the secure deployment of enterprise mobile apps and data, while still encouraging the levels of employee adoption needed to drive the productivity and ROI gains that are possible. Learn More

Just how much bigger AWS is compared its next competitor may surprise you
Amazon.com came out with its quarterly earnings last week, and Technology Business Research analyst Jillian Mirandi crunched the numbers of how much of a lead AWS has on its competitors in the public cloud market. The numbers are striking. Read More

Microsoft boosts OneDrive for Business storage
The cloud-storage arms race heated up even more on Monday when Microsoft gave its OneDrive for Business service a big capacity boost. Read More

Switching highlights Juniper's Q1
Juniper's Q1 earnings, in which it beat Wall Street revenue estimates and grew switching revenue 46%, included an announcement that AT&T named it as the latest supplier to its Domain 2.0 initiative to build a user-defined cloud. Domain 2.0 is AT&T's network virtualization project that looks to embrace software-defined networking and network functions virtualization. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Intigua

Systems Management Virtualization
Discover how virtualizing the management layer, by de-coupling agents from the underlying server infrastructure, eliminates the need to install physical agents on servers and makes ongoing management tasks such as provisioning and updating agents as simple as copying a single "virtual agent" file to all required servers. Read more. Learn More

Wall Street Beat: Mobile, cloud are key to tech earnings
Tech industry bellwethers, including Facebook, Microsoft, Apple and Amazon, weighed in this week with quarterly earnings and -- surprise! -- mobile and cloud offerings appear to be the key to their health. Read More

Cloud-savvy Bluetooth 4.1 to reach devices by year end
Bluetooth 4.1, due out by the end of the year, will directly connect devices to cloud services. Read More

Security vendor blames Amazon for customer malware
A security vendor claims Amazon Web Services provided a cloud-computing customer with an unpatched version of Windows that resulted in a malware infection. Read More

Public cloud market ready for 'hyergrowth' period
The public cloud market is set for what one analyst firm calls 'hypergrowth.' Read More

Cloud computing confronts critical crossroads
It's been an amazingly busy period for the cloud computing industry. A multitude of powerful forces – both positive and negative – are simultaneously buffeting the industry, and their combined effects could dramatically affect the landscape for both consumer and enterprise users of cloud computing services. Read More

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Fave Raves: 33 tech pros share their favorite IT products

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