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	Download the Cloud Applications Deep Dive report Thanks to the success of Amazon EC2, Salesforce, and other public cloud services, most enterprises understand the value of cloud computing, and an increasing number of enterprises are exploring the idea of getting into the cloud computing business. Why not? Launching a public cloud service may establish a new revenue stream -- or self-service convenience for customers -- with minimal additions to existing infrastructure. But launching a cloud service can be a laborious process. Read More WEBCAST: HP How to overcome challenges with database solutions. Your business is growing. How is your IT handling increased business transactions, stringent SLAs and increasing budget pressures? Join Richard Winter, President at WinterCorp, and Ajaya Gummadi, HP NonStop WW Database Product Manager, as they discuss the challenges enterprises face with database solutions, and how to overcome them with HP. Learn more. In this Issue Xamarin adds Android designer to Visual Studio New DDR4 memory to boost tablet, server performance SAP lays out cloud strategy post-SuccessFactors acquisition Lenovo working with Intel on ThinkPad Windows 8 tablet WHITE PAPER: Amazon Web Services Microsoft SharePoint on the AWS Cloud Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides services & tools for deploying Microsoft® SharePoint® workloads on its cloud infrastructure platform. This white paper discusses general concepts regarding how to use these services and provides detailed technical guidance on how to configure, deploy, and run a SharePoint Server farm on AWS. Deploy SharePoint quickly at lower total cost on AWS Cloud. Learn how Xamarin adds Android designer to Visual Studio Xamarin, with an upgrade to its Mono for Android SDK on Monday, is adding a drag-and-drop, graphical designer for building Android application interfaces within either Microsoft's Visual Studio or Xamarin's own MonoDevelop IDE. Read More New DDR4 memory to boost tablet, server performance The upcoming shift from Double Data Rate 3 (DDR3) RAM to its successor, DDR4, will herald in a significant boost in both memory performance and capacity for data center hardware and consumer products alike. The DDR4 memory standard, which the Joint Electronic Devices Engineering Council (JEDEC) expects to OK this summer, represents a doubling of performance over its predecessor and a reduction in power use by 20 percent to 40 percent based on a maximum 1.2 volts of power use. Read More SAP lays out cloud strategy post-SuccessFactors acquisition SAP announced a broad set of plans to become a player in cloud computing, spanning from a "loosely coupled suite" of business applications to data integration and PaaS (platform as a service) Tuesday during the Sapphire conference in Orlando. The conference comes several months after SAP's $3.4 billion acquisition of SuccessFactors, a move that gave it a large set of cloud-based HCM (human capital management) software as well as what executives called "cloud DNA," or expertise running such businesses. Read More Lenovo working with Intel on ThinkPad Windows 8 tablet Lenovo is working with chip maker Intel on a future ThinkPad tablet based on Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system, a Lenovo executive said. The release of an Intel-based ThinkPad tablet depends on when Microsoft releases Windows 8, said Dilip Bhatia, vice president and general manager of the ThinkPad business unit, in an interview. He declined to provide a specific date, though Windows 8 is expected to come out later this year. Read More
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