Who Can Pry Into Your Cloud-based Data?

	OpenStack Celebrates 3 Years of Building Open Source Cloud Platform | 5 Elements Your Cloud Infrastructure Needs to Enable Application Agility
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	Who Can Pry Into Your Cloud-based Data?   Can anyone access the data that you trust to the safekeeping of a cloud-computing vendor? It's a good question, made all the more relevant by the revelations regarding the National Security Agency's Prism program. So how can you best address these issues in your contract with your cloud vendor? Read More   RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Prolexic Technologies     Average Packet-Per-Second Volume Increases 925% over Q2 2012   As the world's leading DDoS mitigation provider, Prolexic is ideally positioned to collect valuable data on the origins, tactics, types, and targets of these attacks and identify emerging trends. Through data forensics and post attack analysis, Prolexic is able to build a global view of DDoS attacks. Download the full DDoS attack report >>> In this Issue OpenStack Celebrates 3 Years of Building Open Source Cloud Platform 5 Elements Your Cloud Infrastructure Needs to Enable Application Agility Connected Cars Race Toward Mobility and the Cloud Startup Turns Applications Into Cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Oracle Joins Rivals to Advance Cloud Computing Cloud Computing Swallowing Up Branch Office Hardware Apple Looks to Pick Off Engineers From Amazon, OpenStack to Build Out iCloud WEBCAST: HP Autonomy     Dispelling Myths about Cloud–based Archiving   Visit this Interactive Resource Center, designed to dispel any concerns you may have. It's packed with informative videos, whitepapers and case studies as well as Twitter feeds and a live Forum—everything you need to move confidently to the cloud. View Now! OpenStack Celebrates 3 Years of Building Open Source Cloud Platform   The project to deliver a ubiquitous open source cloud computing platform for public and private clouds has become one of the fastest growing open source projects in history. Read More   5 Elements Your Cloud Infrastructure Needs to Enable Application Agility   Cloud computing offers affordability and agility, but that doesn't mean it automatically enables business agility. To achieve that, you may need to rethink the way you design, deploy and manage the application development lifecycle. Read More   Connected Cars Race Toward Mobility and the Cloud   Forget fuel efficiency, all-wheel drive and sunroofs. Your next car may connect wirelessly to an array of cloud services, talk to your iPhone, call 911 if you have a medical emergency and even place your coffee order. It's not as futuristic as you may think. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Red Hat     A single vendor cloud strategy might not be the best course   A recent IDG Quick Poll of U.S. CIOs found IT leaders seek alternative providers of virtualization technology as well as technology to manage a heterogeneous virtual environment. Learn More Startup Turns Applications Into Cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)   As the wave of cloud computing continues to ripple through the technology world, many applications are being left behind because they don't translate well into being delivered as a software as a service (SaaS) in the cloud, says Osman Kent, founder of Numecent, which aims to fix that problem. Read More   Oracle Joins Rivals to Advance Cloud Computing   Ending a bitter feud, the database vendor enters into a cloud-centric deal with Salesforce.com, and announces similar agreements with Microsoft and NetSuite. Read More   Cloud Computing Swallowing Up Branch Office Hardware   The popularization of cloud computing and ubiquitous access to high-speed Internet connectivity mean that the days of the specialized branch office IT appliance are numbered, according to industry sources. Read More   Apple Looks to Pick Off Engineers From Amazon, OpenStack to Build Out iCloud   Apple is on the hunt for cloud infrastructure engineers familiar with building large-scale deployments like those at Amazon Web Services and OpenStack companies, according to a job posting. Read More
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