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	Cloud gives Microsoft new access to midmarket businesses, CFO says Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Peter Klein told an audience of investment analysts Wednesday that the company sees prospects for growth in cloud computing by delivering its software as a service to businesses, particularly midsized companies. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed ANPM Vendor Analysis Riverbedï¾® Cascadeﾩ stacks up extremely well against the competition. How well? In particular, Cascade outperforms other application-aware network performance management solutions in such important areas as product strength and cost efficiency. Read Now. In this Issue DEMO 2011: Five stand-out cloud products for the enterprise Latency concerns not stopping overseas clouds Cloud Cruiser aims to ease cloud chargeback issue IBM points toward managing multi-cloud universe The cost of bad cloud-based application performance How SaaS will impact 6 key software categories 5 new ways to build apps for iPhone, Android and Web browsers Zyrion's Traverse; BSM done beautifully WAN performance in a cloud-based world? WHITE PAPER: AMD Leveraging Big Data for Competitive Advantage The ability to navigate large data sets is giving companies new insights into their markets and delivering competitive advantage. This paper written by AMD Senior Fellow, Keith Lowery, introduces the main hardware and software concepts of the new trend called ï¾"Big Dataï¾". Read now! DEMO 2011: Five stand-out cloud products for the enterprise On day one of the DEMO Spring 2011 conference this week in Palm Desert, Calif., a slew of start-up companies pitched products ranging from an ecoATM that recycles old gadgets to a Web site that lets customers virtually try on clothes using their Web cams. Read More Latency concerns not stopping overseas clouds Concerns about latency and questions about security and regulatory issues aren't stopping CIOs from moving key systems to the cloud, even if it means using apps hosted in data centers on the other side of the globe. Read More Cloud Cruiser aims to ease cloud chargeback issue As more companies shift more work to the cloud, they are struggling with a new financial problem, namely how to accurately charge business units for use of the cloud services. Read More WEBCAST: Dell Webcast: Is Virtualization Right for SMBs? Youï¾'ve heard that large companies embrace virtualization to consolidate their data centers, reduce costs, and improve operating efficiency and IT service levels. However, your data center only has tens of servers, not hundreds or thousands. Should you consider virtualization as well? View this webcast to learn more. Register now! IBM points toward managing multi-cloud universe IBM's Tivoli cloud management tool upgrade includes the ability to deploy virtual machines in seconds, but there's potential for frustration as well. Its list of supported platforms includes some notable absences. Read More The cost of bad cloud-based application performance If you were worried about the performance of cloud-based applications, here's fair warning: You'll probably be even more so when you consider findings from a recent survey conducted by Vanson Bourne on the behalf of Compuware. Read More How SaaS will impact 6 key software categories SaaS will steal the show in certain categories but remain a bit player in others, Forrester research shows. Here's a look at how SaaS will affect IT management tools, ERP applications and more, for the next two years. Read More WHITE PAPER: Symantec E-mail: Todayï¾'s Problems and How to Deal With Them As e-mail use balloons, IT faces looming archiving, management and security challenges. In these articles, Network World and its sister publications CIO, Computerworld and CSO explore how business users and IT alike can stay on top of the e-mail morass. Read now! 5 new ways to build apps for iPhone, Android and Web browsers Five start-ups unveiled services for building mobile applications and Web services this week at DEMO Spring 2011, bringing application development capabilities to the masses - or, at least, to people who lack traditional programming and mobile development skills. Read More Zyrion's Traverse; BSM done beautifully Network monitoring has always been a complex task for enterprises but with the emergence of virtualization and cloud computing, the job got orders of magnitude harder. And just to make it even more complex, the objective is no longer just network device management but rather the much more complex goal of business service management (BSM). Read More WAN performance in a cloud-based world? How does one optimize WAN performance in a cloud-based world? Thierry Grenot, CTO of Ipanema Networks, weighs in. Read More
	GOODIES FROM THE SUBNETS Up for grabs from Microsoft Subnet: a Windows 7 Enterprise Technician class for three people. From Cisco Subnet: 15 copies of VMware ESXi books. Enter here. SLIDESHOWS 20 awesome tech products at DEMO Build-your-own iPhone and Android apps, cloud services, photo tools and more on display at DEMO Spring 2011. Top 10 Chrome OS extensions Though Google is pitching it as an operating system for netbooks and lightweight notebooks, Chrome OS is essentially the Chrome Web browser bolted on top of a bare minimum version of Linux. The following extensions can improve the user experience of Chrome (OS or browser) to give you some of the functionality found in a traditional operating system. MOST-READ STORIES Welcome to the iPad 2: Inside Apple's new tablet Open source expert takes on the hardest job at Microsoft Meet Google's human search engine for innovation Man gets 7 years for forcing modems to call premium members IE wins, Firefox loses as Internet population shifts Google apologizes for Gmail bug that shook 150,000 users Mr. Linux goes Hollywood for the Oscars 20 awesome tech products at DEMO PHP user group lauds Microsoft's open source contributions Windows Live Mesh goes live without support for Linux
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