Cloud computing is not IT's enemy

	Oracle's Hurd brims with confidence about SaaS, social, and cloud | Think through your cloud plans -- or else
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	Cloud computing is not IT's enemy A lot of the discussion about the cloud and how it will make IT go away is about IT infrastructure economics. The fact is, those don't matter a bit. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Verizon Wireless Verizon Cloud Solutions for business. Improve time to market. Scale capacity to demand. Simplify the deployment of apps. Reduce capital investment. Control operating costs. Cloud Solutions from Verizon can enhance your competitive advantage and improve IT flexibility. And since you only pay for the capacity you need, you're more agile and better equipped to support changing demands. Click to continue In this Issue Oracle's Hurd brims with confidence about SaaS, social, and cloud Think through your cloud plans -- or else INSIDER Securing the new data center RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Sparqlight Get Work Done! - Free Enterprise Social Workflow Sparqlight, the Enterprise Social Workflow Application, is a smart, simple and better way to measure, improve and get work done. Now any enterprise can deploy social workflow to every person and every system in your organization. That's powerful, that's revolutionary, that's getting work done. #GETWORKDONE Oracle's Hurd brims with confidence about SaaS, social, and cloud To hear Oracle President Mark Hurd tell it, the $37.1 billion hardware and software company is well ahead of competitors on any number of fronts, from transitioning customers to SaaS and the cloud, to incorporating social technology into its products. Read More Think through your cloud plans -- or else The core issue in IT is that the use of best practices such as architecture and design, which typically ensure success, are largely considered roadblocks as we run from one technology to another. Read More INSIDER Securing the new data center Its hard enough to secure resources when they are bound to a physical box, but the game changes when servers are virtualized and start to move around, not only to other servers in the data center, but also to off-premise cloud facilities. How do you stay out ahead on security in this dynamic, new, virtualized, cloud-ready world? Read More
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