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	9 things you need to know before you store data in the cloud The amount of electronic information (e.g., documents, images, emails, videos) organizations produce is staggering. Storing all your digital data in your data center can be expensive. That's why cloud storage -- which often comes at a fraction of the cost of storing the information on-premises -- has become increasingly popular. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Open Business Conference Attend the Open Business Conference May 5-6 and discover... How tools for leveraging data have opened up almost completely. From Hadoop to Open Stack to NoSQL and technologies like MongoDB, never have so many powerful technologies been available to so many. As Big Data matures, these tools are becoming increasingly accessible. Register and attend May 5-6, 2014, The Palace Hotel, San Francisco. Click to continue In this Issue CloudFlare launches bug bounty program Report: New Start menu and free cloud-based Windows to debut this fall BMC automates the mainframe change ticket Hands on: Polaris Office's new cloud option wants your contacts Even the most secure cloud storage may not be so secure, study finds Google's smart contact lenses could aid the visually impaired Enterprise who? Google says little about Apps, business cloud services in Q1 report For Red Hat, it's RHEL and then...? SAP reports strong growth in cloud amid slow overall revenue growth WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Microsoft SharePoint Performance Brief To use SharePoint as it was intended, it is essential to provide quick document check-in/check-out performance to all team members, regardless of where they are trying to connect from or their distance from the server. Read Now CloudFlare launches bug bounty program CloudFlare started a bug bounty program on Monday, joining a host of companies that are turning to independent security researchers to spot bugs in their network. Read More Report: New Start menu and free cloud-based Windows to debut this fall Microsoft will reportedly debut its revamped Start menu--along with a free, cloud-based version of Windows--this fall. Read More BMC automates the mainframe change ticket Mainframe operators using BMC software may now be able to enjoy the speedy, devops-style development pace that is quickly becoming the norm for customer-facing mobile applications and Internet services. Read More Hands on: Polaris Office's new cloud option wants your contacts Mobile office suite Polaris Office now offers a cloud option for storing your documents. But in all the metrics that matter--price, privacy, and functionality--you'd be better served by passing it by. Read More WHITE PAPER: Intigua Systems Management Virtualization Discover how virtualizing the management layer, by de-coupling agents from the underlying server infrastructure, eliminates the need to install physical agents on servers and makes ongoing management tasks such as provisioning and updating agents as simple as copying a single "virtual agent" file to all required servers. Read more. Learn More Even the most secure cloud storage may not be so secure, study finds Some cloud storage providers who hope to be on the leading edge of cloud security adopt a "zero-knowledge" policy in which vendors say it is impossible for customer data to be snooped on. But a recent study by computer scientists at Johns Hopkins University is questioning just how secure those zero knowledge tactics are. Read More Google's smart contact lenses could aid the visually impaired In today's accessible technology roundup: Google wants to embed cameras in contact lenses, Apple gets a patent for a new GUI for touch devices to improve accessibility and a hacker develops a virtual cane for the blind Read More Enterprise who? Google says little about Apps, business cloud services in Q1 report Google did little during its first-quarter earnings report to shush critics who say its Enterprise unit is a second-class citizen in its kingdom. Read More For Red Hat, it's RHEL and then...? Red Hat has successfully grown Linux into an enterprise platform, now it's looking to do the same with OpenStack. Read More SAP reports strong growth in cloud amid slow overall revenue growth SAP reported a strong growth in cloud revenue and fast adoption of its HANA platform in the first quarter, while its software revenue dipped from the same quarter in the previous year. Read More
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