Microsoft bulks up Azure virtual machines

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	Microsoft bulks up Azure virtual machines Responding to customer hunger for bigger virtual machines, Microsoft has bulked up its most powerful VM with more storage and higher throughput, paving the way for running large-scale, database-driven applications in the Microsoft Azure cloud. Read More WHITE PAPER: Red Hat, Dell & SAP Agility, Simplicity, Modernization CIOs today have more responsibility than ever to fulfilling business: increasing revenue growth, reducing operating costs and driving productivity improvements. Read how vendors are creating state-of-the-art systems to accommodate these systems in one solution. Learn More In this Issue As police move to adopt body cams, storage costs set to skyrocket VMware and Google buddy up in the cloud Google's productivity suite updated with dictation, integrated search and more What's the deal with Apple-Cisco deal? Salesforce jumps into healthcare with a tailored cloud platform Surprise! Best Buy prices often on par with Amazon How VMware aims to distinguish itself in the cloud Microsoft researcher: Why Micro Datacenters really matter to mobile's future Fujitsu confirms cloud outage CIOs embrace hybrid cloud and software-defined data centers : APC by Schneider Electric eGuide: Data Center Efficiency In this eGuide, Computerworld, CIO, and Network World examine recent trends and issues related to data center efficiency. Read on to learn how a more efficient data center can make a difference in your organization. Learn More As police move to adopt body cams, storage costs set to skyrocket Police body cams are a big business, but even bigger is the business of storing the video content that's created as camera adoption grows. Determining how much video to keep -- and for how long -- is also an issue. Read More VMware and Google buddy up in the cloud In what is a symbiotic relationship for both companies, VMware and Google have expanded their partnership in the IaaS cloud market this week. Read More Google's productivity suite updated with dictation, integrated search and more Google rolled out a big set of updates to its productivity suite today aimed primarily at enhancing its capabilities for students and teachers. Read More WHITE PAPER: Iron Mountain When the Cloud Evaporates Recent research reveals that while SaaS adoption is high, there are relevant reasons to worry about its risks - and to have a contingency plan. This white paper shares insights from the survey about the ongoing proliferation of SaaS, the potential risks of relying on cloud applications, and the actions companies are taking to mitigate those risks. Learn More What's the deal with Apple-Cisco deal? Apple's newly announced partnership with Cisco to sell more iPads and iPhones to businesses was short on detail. Read More Salesforce jumps into healthcare with a tailored cloud platform Sales and marketing have long been Salesforce's proverbial bread and butter, but on Wednesday the CRM giant branched out in a new direction with a cloud platform tailored specifically for healthcare providers and patient data. Read More Surprise! Best Buy prices often on par with Amazon It's not often that a brick-and-mortar retailer can match, let alone beat, Amazon.com's online prices. Best Buy, however, is doing just that, according to a Wall Street analyst's comparison of more than four dozen items sold by both stores. Read More WHITE PAPER: Alcatel Lucent USA Inc. Transforming Healthcare IT This paper examines what healthcare IT needs to be fast enough for Big Data. Learn More How VMware aims to distinguish itself in the cloud VMware VP of Cloud Services Mathew Lodge acknowledges that the virtualization vendor got started later than other folks in the IaaS public cloud market, but he flatly denies that the company is slowing investment in this area. Read More Microsoft researcher: Why Micro Datacenters really matter to mobile's future Microsoft Research distinguished scientist Victor Bahl has been spreading the word about Micro Datacenters, also known by the adorable name "cloudlets," as a key concept for optimizing the performance and usefulness of mobile and other networked devices via the cloud. Read More Fujitsu confirms cloud outage Fujitsu, the Japanese technology company with an international IaaS cloud offering, confirmed that it had a significant outage to the company's California data centers last month. Read More CIOs embrace hybrid cloud and software-defined data centers Companies building mobile and Web applications to support their digital businesses depend on a mix of private and public clouds to exchange data, said Bill Fathers, VMware's executive vice president and general manager of cloud services, at the company's VMworld customer event. Read More
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