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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Microsoft ups the cloud ante; cloud security survival guide; Riverbed looks to speed cloud apps

3 most important announcements about Microsoft's Azure cloud; Microsoft touts groundbreaking 'clip-on' for Active Directory
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Microsoft adds app, data marketplace to Windows Azure

Microsoft says its upcoming Windows Azure cloud computing platform will come with marketplaces for both online apps built to run on Azure as well as datasets that companies can use to build their own apps. Read full story

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3 most important announcements about Microsoft's Azure cloud
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Microsoft touts groundbreaking 'clip-on' for Active Directory
Microsoft is introducing a directory technology built on a database and designed around a new API that provides developers with a single model for building claims-based access controls into applications that run in the cloud, internally or on devices.

Microsoft touches on cloud management system
Almost as a forgotten footnote, Microsoft introduce System Center "Cloud" Tuesday, providing little detail other than a name on a slide during the opening keynote of the annual PDC conference.

The cloud security survival guide
For companies increasingly dependent on cloud services, security challenges abound. Here's a collection of articles, columns and audio to help IT security practitioners plot the right course.

Riverbed looks to speed cloud applications, storage
Riverbed has a plan to accelerate applications and storage resources that are located in a cloud computing environment and delivered over the Internet to private data centers, distributed branch offices and mobile users.

Cloud won't do for critical applications, SAP says
SAP does not expect mission-critical applications to move to the cloud in the near future, the company's CTO says.

HP expands high performance computing infrastructure
HP just launched new servers, storage, software and networking that include the HP ProLiant G6 blade along with 'skinless' server technology, optimized for Web 2.0, cloud and high-performance computing environments.

Elastra offers a tool to build public-private clouds
Elastra has announced the availability of its Cloud Server platform, which lets enterprises build public-private computing clouds.

November giveaways
Cisco Subnet is giving away free books on VMware vSphere security. Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons and free books on Exchange Server 2010. Google Subnet is giving away free books on Android app development. Entry forms can be found on the main contest page. Trivia answers are revealed on each main Subnet page.

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