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Public and Private Cloud Boundaries Are Colliding Public and private cloud boundaries are rapidly colliding. On-premise private cloud hosting within a data center is shifting to a hybrid environment, where business functions are distributed across public SaaS applications, outsourced service partners, and multiple private collocation facilities. |
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Can Your Organization Use an Outsourcing Strategy that Works? Nothing strikes fear in the heart of IT folks like the word “outsourcing," and now it appears that a company has created robots that can handle simple business and IT functions. Joe Townsend explores whether or not an outsourcing strategy can work with your organization. |
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Google’s Eighteen Minutes of Downtime—Security Fears Remain Google's Chrome and Gmail crash lasted only eighteen minutes on Monday, but what kind of damage do these repeated, albeit brief, downtimes cause those who are already skeptical of moving their data to the cloud? One way to stop the bleeding is to quickly let customers know what went wrong. |
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Should SCM Professionals Be Scripting Experts? Joe Farah explains to what degree should SCM professionals be scripting experts. While high-level scripting for SCM professionals is great, you might need to rethink your technology so your CM team can do real work. |
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The Case of the Proliferating OpenStack Distros It seems that a growing number of companies are not sticking with the main OpenStack program and deciding to fork off their own distributions for sale to their customers. If OpenStack follows the same development path as Linux, there will be hundreds of distributions with subtly different features. |
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The Iron Dome and ALM Israel's Iron Dome Missile Interception System is a computer aided rocket system that intercepts incoming missiles and destroys them before they reach their intended target. Bob Aiello writes on this military defense system and how it relates to many of the practices associated with ALM. |
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Prices Drop as Cloud Storage Wars Heat Up Amazon and Google are racing to grab cloud customers, and headlines, in the great cloud war. By consistently lowering prices and offering advanced services, both giants want nothing more than to be the world's cloud storage leader. But is either of them making a profit? |
