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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

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DEMO 2011: Five stand-out cloud products for the enterprise | Latency concerns not stopping overseas clouds

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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
Riverbedᆴ 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.

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.

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Gladinet Cloud Desktop, a real cloud product | NetSuite's CEO cashes in on cloud mania

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Cloud storage a steep climb
It's been nearly five years to the day since Amazon introduced its groundbreaking Simple Storage Service -- or S3, as it's more commonly known. But despite that offering's track record, many enterprise IT executives still struggle with the notion of using cloud-based storage services to hold their corporate data. Read More


WHITE PAPER: IBM

Decisions That Drive Success
Read this white paper to learn how decision management makes it possible to use predictive analytics an integral part of real-time decision process including: the different types of decisions and which ones are right for automation; how decision management solutions work; and how to implement a decision management solution at your organization. Read Now

WEBCAST: BMC

Why Change Schedulers?
Recent yearï¾'s attempts to retrofit older solutions to meet todayï¾'s challenges are costing companies millions, and not delivering the desired results. View this webinar to find out how companies reduce their costs by switching to BMC CONTROL-M. Watch Now!

Gladinet Cloud Desktop, a real cloud product
Gibbs looks at the latest version of Gladinet Cloud Desktop and likes what he sees. Read More

NetSuite's CEO cashes in on cloud mania
An exclusive interview with Zach Nelson, CEO of NetSuite, reveals the challenges and rewards of being the leading ERP-as-a-service provider Read More

The change imperative
Some 400 of your peers gathered at Network World's IT Roadmap show in Chicago last week to discuss everything from cloud plans to iPad support, flat network options and Windows 7 migration. Read More


WHITE PAPER: CA

Layered Tech expands to new markets with CA 3Tera AppLogic
As Layered Tech's customers required more complex services, the cost of servicing them increased. They needed a solution that would enable rapid reaction to hosting demands while helping to lower operating costs. CA 3Tera AppLogic is a turn-key cloud computing platform enabling infrastructure solutions that can dynamically adapt to changing needs. Learn More

Should you outsource UC?
While the ï¾"cloudï¾" is all the rage in the press these days, the reality is that the vast majority of organizations still in-source their UC applications. But another reality is that deployments are increasingly complex as IT managers face not only the need to integrate disparate systems, but manage performance across a growing array of end-points and locations. Read More

HP to enter public cloud
In his first time speaking about HP's strategy, Leo Apotheker, CEO of HP spoke about cloud at HP Summit 2011 last week in San Jose, Calif. Read More

AccelOps, Zenoss flesh out cloud management wares
With each passing week, another one or more network and systems management companies tout the roles their products will play in managing cloud-based IT environments. Read More


WHITE PAPER: CA

The 2010 Handbook of Application Delivery
Now is the time for application delivery 2.0. From virtualization to cloud computing, ensuring application performance has become more complicated. This comprehensive handbook provides a state-of-the-market report on best practices to address the new application delivery challenges. Read Now

SAP plans cloud version of HANA
SAP plans to offer a version of its HANA (High-Performance Analytic Appliance) software that will allow customers to upload data to the vendor's own cloud setup for processing, rather than deploy related infrastructure in-house. Read More

CloudStack, OpenStack, here a cloud, there a stack, it's all open to me
This past week, Cloud.com released the latest version of its open source cloud OS, CloudStack. Read More

Unified communications and cloud-based services
Unified communications and cloud-based services: We examine how these two complementary trends can be of significant advantage when considered together. Read More

Verizon, SAP team to deliver CRM CaaS
Verizon and SAP have announced that they are teaming to jointly deliver the SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) to enterprise users through Verizon's Computing as a Service (CaaS) cloud offering. Subscribers will be able to access SAP CRM from their desktops or their mobile devices. 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

Perks drive up pay for tech CEOs
Many tech vendors have shied away from extravagant perks, but there are still plenty worth highlighting. Like a $1.5 million tab for home security. Or how about the $36,619 one company paid to reimburse its CEO for the taxes he had to pay on the $106,589 he gained by using company aircraft for personal flights? Read on to find out which tech CEOs enjoyed the priciest perks in 2010 and which ones went to work perk-free.

First look at Microsoft Internet Explorer 9
Microsoft has a real competitor once again with IE9, released at midnight Monday night on Windows 7 and Vista after several months of beta testing. The focus is on speed, privacy and simplicity, with a stripped-down interface, tracking protection, pinned sites, jump lists and enhanced support for HTML5.

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  10. On the company dime: Rogue game server admins tell all

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