VMware's Cloud Strategy Equal Parts Foggy, Stormy

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	VMware's Cloud Strategy Equal Parts Foggy, Stormy With VMworld on the horizon, VMware has been touting its cloud strategy. That 'strategy,' though, seems to involve dissing Microsoft and Amazon, marginalizing CSP partners and clinging to the idea that the cloud is solely the domain of IT departments. If VMware keeps this up, it can expect a stormy future in the cloud, CIO.com columnist Bernard Golden says. Read More   In this Issue Amazon Still Public Cloud Leader By a Long Shot Cloud Market Destined to Change Following NSA Leaks Can the U.S. Postal Service Find a Future Running a Gov't Cloud-Based Authentication Service? Box Rolls Out New Cloud Storage Plans Catering to Small and Medium Businesses Despite Recent Cloud Service Outages, Security a Bigger Concern Than Availability Businesses Shouldn't Let Google and Microsoft Outages Shake Their Confidence in the Cloud IBM Lands Billion Dollar Cloud Transformation Contract with U.S. Government WEBCAST: HP Intel VMware   The Cloud: Why the Hybrid Cloud May Be Best A combination of the public and private cloud, the hybrid cloud fits the needs of a broad range of enterprises. View Now! Amazon Still Public Cloud Leader By a Long Shot Amazon Web Services remains the top IaaS public cloud computing provider, offering the widest breath of services of any vendor in the market, Gartner concluded in its annual Magic Quadrant report. Read More Cloud Market Destined to Change Following NSA Leaks Internet surveillance by the National Security Agency (NSA), leaked to the media by ex-contractor Edward Snowden, has shifted companies' priorities when sizing up cloud services providers in and outside the U.S., experts say. Read More   Can the U.S. Postal Service Find a Future Running a Gov't Cloud-Based Authentication Service? Can the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) find a new future running a cloud-based authentication service for the government? The USPS intends to try and do just that under a three-year $15.12 million contract awarded to SecureKey Technologies today for some foundation technology to build a cloud-based authentication exchange. Read More   WEBCAST: Kony Solutions Facebook says NO to HTML5 - Should you? Are you considering HTML5 development? While it's ideal for some mobile apps, there are limitations and challenges that should be considered before committing. Watch this Webcast to hear how you can: - Overcome browser fragmentation issues - Keep development costs in check - Test for all target devices - Optimize performance across platforms View Now! Box Rolls Out New Cloud Storage Plans Catering to Small and Medium Businesses Box is launching new, more affordable pricing plans to attract small and medium businesses to its cloud data storage and file sharing service, and it is doubling the amount of storage it provides for free personal accounts. Read More   Despite Recent Cloud Service Outages, Security a Bigger Concern Than Availability A 25-minute outage for Amazon is still not a reason to abandon the cloud. However, there are other caveats to using cloud services. Read More   Businesses Shouldn't Let Google and Microsoft Outages Shake Their Confidence in the Cloud Despite the recent downtime of these two popular services, the advantages of the cloud still outweigh the risks. Read More   IBM Lands Billion Dollar Cloud Transformation Contract with U.S. Government IBM has been awarded a contract worth up to $1 billion to transform the U.S. Department of the Interior's IT as part of a major cloud computing initiative. Read More
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