How to Lose the Cloud Chasm Between Executives and IT

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	How to Lose the Cloud Chasm Between Executives and IT Cloud computing discussions abound these days, but there is a growing gap between executives and IT when it comes to assessing cloud's potential. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: VMware Cloud Credits Partner Campaign VMware Cloud Credits: Ultimate Control for your Cloud Budget VMware Cloud Credits enable the pre-purchase of cloud services on budget or project cycles and subsequent management and controlled consumption of public and hybrid cloud by the business with approved vCloud Service Providers. The net result allows your business to take advantage of cloud economics to improve business agility. Learn more at www.vmware.com/go/vmwarecloudcredits. When you're ready to purchase, work with your VMware Solution Provider to identify your public or hybrid cloud needs, then purchase VMware Cloud Credits in line with your requirements. In this Issue 14 Things You Need to Know About Data Storage Management Cloud Industry Needs to Standardize, Says Fed CIO How to Use Cloud Integrated Storage to Support the Distributed Enterprise Publisher Macmillan Rolls Out Cloud Business Social Collaboration Tool This is Likely How You Will Buy Cloud Resources Moving Forward RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Prolexic Technologies New DDOS Threat Advisory Issued – Drive Toolkit There's a growing trend where DDoS attacks are used to camouflage fraud and identity theft. The #1 perpetrator is the Drive toolkit, an attack tool commonly used to sidetrack IT security personnel at financial services and e-Commerce firms while criminals attempt to transfer funds, gather passwords for later use, or place unauthorized orders. A thorough analysis of the Drive threat, including screenshots, launch commands, sample payloads and identifying signatures to enable DDoS mitigation techniques, is available free of charge in Prolexic's Drive DDoS Threat Advisory. 14 Things You Need to Know About Data Storage Management If you think backing up files and software to a storage device or to the cloud will automatically preserve and protect them (and your organization), think again. Data storage and management experts discuss what steps you need to take to properly manage and store data -- and why just backing up data is not enough. Read More Cloud Industry Needs to Standardize, Says Fed CIO U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services' chief information officer wants way to compare cloud providers. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Jump-Start Your Application Modernization Look at application modernization as a way to move the business forward. By tapping into the expertise of the right partner, you can transition your IT infrastructure from maintenance to innovation, so your business can continually grow and adapt to evolving business demands. Read now! How to Use Cloud Integrated Storage to Support the Distributed Enterprise Cloud-based or Cloud Integrated Storage (CIS) shifts the actual data storage away from the hardware to the cloud where it can be accessed by a new class of storage controller or cloud gateway. Read More Publisher Macmillan Rolls Out Cloud Business Social Collaboration Tool Global publisher Macmillan Science and Education has deployed a cloud-based business social networking platform to allow its staff, writers and researchers to collaborate more effectively. Read More This is Likely How You Will Buy Cloud Resources Moving Forward The migration of services delivered through cloud-based resources is causing tectonic shifts across the IT vendor landscape and one area of the market that's been unsure about what it means has been channel resellers. But the channel is finally finding its groove in the cloud, according to a new study. Read More
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