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Turns out, there already is a cloud for spooks

Posted April 1, 2013 - 3:26 pm

The NSA revealed it is running an OpenStack cloud
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Federal CIO calls for government-wide 'IT as a service'

Posted April 1, 2013 - 12:18 pm

White House PortfolioStat 2.0 offers updated roadmap for overhaul of federal IT operations, calling for shift to cloud computing, CIO empowerment.
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Cloud prices: How low can they go?

Posted April 1, 2013 - 12:05 pm

Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud providers are battling in a price war that has seen 29 price reductions by the four major providers during the past 14 months, a trend industry analysts expect to continue.
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Apple's iRadio music service is finally coming - maybe

Posted April 1, 2013 - 11:09 am

Apple may be close to launching its long-rumored streaming radio service, but we've heard that before
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More SDN-friendly Arista switches could boost cloud services

Posted April 1, 2013 - 10:52 am

Arista Networks this week unveiled software-defined networking (SDN) extensions to its data center switch operating system that tie the company's products into cloud orchestration and flow management systems.
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Start Small, Grow Tall: Why Cloud Now

Posted March 29, 2013 - 4:30 pm

Cloud is the hottest thing in computing today, and enterprises are eagerly seeking to adopt it. They realize that it holds the promise of curing today's "data center sprawl;" however, companies still face a number of obstacles to cloud adoption.
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Adapt your technology, services, and organization to cloud ~ HP Converged Cloud Workshop

Posted March 29, 2013 - 4:30 pm

Read this white paper sponsored by HP and Intel® for an overview of the HP Cloud Discovery Workshop and to understand how it can help clarify your company's cloud vision.
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The Weekly Hash - March 29, 2013

Posted March 29, 2013 - 11:29 am

Having some fun at the expense of this week’s top tech newsmakers, this week featuring astronauts having a quick rendezvous, a Google exec having a midlife crisis and one teenager having a very good week
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Linux use in enterprises jumps again: survey

Posted March 28, 2013 - 4:46 pm

In the next 5 years 80 percent of organizations plan to increase Linux server use, but only 20 percent plan to purchase Windows servers.
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Avaya CEO talks competition, debt, innovation

Posted March 28, 2013 - 4:44 pm

Avaya is pushing a new range of unified communications products, but is finding that managed services are becoming more popular among its customers who would rather turn over complex UC transitions to someone else for a predictable monthly fee, says the company's CEO Kevin Kennedy.
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Cisco lays off 500

Posted March 28, 2013 - 4:42 pm

Cisco this week reduced its workforce by about 500 people as the company realigns to face the advent of software-defined networking, cloud computing and its impact on routing and switching.
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Office 365 mixes new features, familiar feel and bridge to the cloud

Posted March 28, 2013 - 4:13 pm

The new Office 365 and its enterprise-grade cloud services are a good option for a business of any size. We look at the Windows 8 experience, the desktop-cloud connection and which of the new features will most appeal to both end-users and IT admins.
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Equinix, NetApp, Amazon team to enable hybrid clouds

Posted March 28, 2013 - 4:06 pm

A new partnership will allow customers to host dedicated NetApp storage infrastructure in Equinix data centers to provide fast connections up into Amazon Web Service's cloud.
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HortonWorks: The Hadoop company everyone wants to be best friends with now

Posted March 28, 2013 - 3:45 pm

During the past few years Neustar, an $830 million publicly-traded data analytics company, has undergone a dramatic business transformation, and it's been powered almost entirely by Hadoop.
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Workday Focuses on Its Post-IPO Future

Posted March 28, 2013 - 1:24 pm

Workday's HR software-as-a-service tool wins praise for ease-of-use, but it remains to be seen whether the company's financial module will be adopted as quickly
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Cloud Computing for CIOs: Getting Inside the Mind of Your CFO

Posted March 28, 2013 - 1:15 pm

No longer is moving to the cloud only spearheaded by small IT groups. This white paper sponsored by HP and Intel® discusses how CIOs that establish a combined approach with CFOs on cloud IT investments are seeing more real business value.
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Red Hat, Rackspace win early dismissal of Uniloc patent suit

Posted March 28, 2013 - 10:33 am

Red Hat and Rackspace have won an early dismissal of a patent infringement claim brought by Uniloc, in a decision the companies are hailing as a potential landmark in intellectual property law.
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It’s the network, stupid

Posted March 28, 2013 - 9:00 am

Cloud service providers that also own the network will have a distinct advantage over competitors
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11 classic "smart" watches

Posted March 27, 2013 - 2:43 pm

These pre-Internet watches were smart, in their own ways, well before the Pebble was kickstarted or the iWatch rumored
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Microsoft touts Office 365 wins, but customers want more

Posted March 27, 2013 - 1:11 pm

Microsoft is trumpeting Office 365 customer successes at its U.S. Public Sector CIO Summit on Tuesday, but some of those otherwise happy clients have a wish list of features and enhancements they'd like to see in the vendor's cloud email and collaboration suite.
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Dirty smartphones: Devices keep traces of files sent to the cloud

Posted March 27, 2013 - 11:42 am

When smartphone users upload files to cloud-based services, remnants of those files often remain on their handheld device, even if the data is meant to be stored only in the cloud, researchers have found.
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Social networking drives business processes at Pandora and Rosetta Stone

Posted March 27, 2013 - 11:22 am

Pandora and Rosetta Stone have embraced social business tools and the cloud to cut costs, increase productivity and improve collaboration. Learn how these two companies overcame security concerns, gained executive buy-in and more.
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AWS takes aim at security conscious enterprises with new appliance

Posted March 27, 2013 - 8:39 am

In a bid to improve data security, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched AWS CloudHSM, which uses a separate appliance to protect cryptographic keys used for encryption.
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Compute price bottom may be in sight

Posted March 27, 2013 - 8:00 am

New data collected by RightScale shows that it's possible margins are slim enough in compute services that future cuts may be harder to come by
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How to remotely inspect the DOM on a mobile device

Posted March 27, 2013 - 8:00 am

How often have you as a mobile web developer struggled to diagnose a style or layout issue on a particular device through trial and error? Wouldn’t it be so much easier if you could just inspect the DOM on the mobile device as you would on the desktop through Chrome or Firebug? It turns out there is a tool for that.
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