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	The new cloud tool kit While the term "cloud" still puts many people off, chances are good that within a few years most companies will have a mix of legacy infrastructure, private cloud pods, public cloud services (SaaS or other), and resources at co-location or hosted facilities. Some people say that's just business as usual, while others say it adds up to one big IT cloud. Nomenclature aside, the question remains: How will you manage it holistically? Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Forrester: The Emergence of Service Assurance Forrester interviewed more than 150 IT professionals to understand the fundamental issues around managing the performance of business application and business services and their underlying transactions. Read their key findings and expert recommendations. Read Now In this Issue Cloud tools organize your messy digital life Is Open Stack taking over the cloud? Cloud, mobility will drive revenue, Juniper says Need to get off that cloud? A virtual moving van Apparent tops off network analysis toolkit with flow analysis Intel hopes to boost cloud gaming with ray tracing Cross-ocean clouds are gaining IT favor Amazon hooks into VMware's management platform Intel courts the cloud builders Cloud gives Microsoft new access to midmarket businesses, CFO says WHITE PAPER: IBM Defining a Framework for Cloud Adoption Read this white paper to understand IBM's framework for cloud computing adoption which establishes common definitions, delivery models and services and identifies key aspects required for a successful cloud computing execution. Read Now Cloud tools organize your messy digital life When people moved from paper to digital files on a computer, it didn't take long to realize that you can get just as burdened by digital stuff as by hard copies. Before long, companies sprang up to sell utility programs to help you find and organize the stuff on your computer. We're going through a similar cycle right now, with many of us moving our digital assets to servers in the cloud, and finding that managing stuff scattered across a myriad of sites belonging to a myriad of companies can be terribly frustrating. Read More Is Open Stack taking over the cloud? When Open Stack was first announced several months ago, many people thought that it could be a major player in the cloud market. Others thought that it could be just another wannabe standard that would fade under all of the cloud hype. With Rackspace, NASA and others behind it, Open Stack had the pedigree to be a game changer. Read More Cloud, mobility will drive revenue, Juniper says Juniper Networks reaffirmed its long-term forecast for annual revenue growth of 20% or more as it met with financial analysts following two big product-line introductions. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM How to Achieve Effective Cloud Computing This paper focuses on private cloud computing and IDC provides a clear definition of all the elements of a private cloud and the platform infrastructure in particular. The paper details IBM private cloud offerings, their capabilities, and benefits. Read now! Need to get off that cloud? A virtual moving van Cloud computing platforms aim to improve IT's ability to be agile. For instance, cloud platforms let you quickly build and install applications, and change the resources underneath later to make them run better. Read More Apparent tops off network analysis toolkit with flow analysis As discussed a few weeks back, enterprise IT interest in flow-based management is on the upswing, set in motion by cloud computing, mobility, VoIP and other forces making an end-to-end view of what's happening across a network so crucial. Read More Intel hopes to boost cloud gaming with ray tracing A new technology from Intel called ray tracing could bring lifelike images and improved 3D effects to games on tablets and other mobile devices. Read More WHITE PAPER: Polycom Learn 6 key best practices for successfully implementing UC. Discover which strategic design and other considerations play critical parts in achieving your ROI objectives. Learn how to develop an implementation strategy that reflects the needs of your organization. Read now. Cross-ocean clouds are gaining IT favor Concerns about latency and questions about legal and regulatory issues aren't stopping CIOs from moving key systems to the cloud, even if it means using applications that are hosted in data centers located overseas. Read More Amazon hooks into VMware's management platform Amazon Web Services (AWS) will help IT staff to move virtual machines to the AWS cloud with a new plug-in for VMware's management platform, AWS says. Read More Intel courts the cloud builders In an office building near Portland, Oregon, in a room next to a massive bank of cubicles, hums one of a group of small Intel data centers known collectively as the Cloud Builders Factory. Read More Cloud gives Microsoft new access to midmarket businesses, CFO says Microsoft CFO Peter Klein told an audience of investment analysts that the company sees prospects for growth in cloud computing by delivering its software as a service to businesses, particularly midsized companies. Read More
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