F5 BIG-IP cloudbursts onto Amazon Web Services scene

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	F5 BIG-IP cloudbursts onto Amazon Web Services scene Joining the ranks of companies like SAP, Microsoft, Eucalyptus, and CloudStack that are deepening their ties with AWS (Amazon Web Services), F5 this week announced a virtual edition of its BIG-IP suite designed for specifically for Amazon's popular public cloud. F5's aim here is to lure in customers who are eager to take to advantage of AWS extensive on-tap computing resources -- either through cloudbursting or moving entire applications into the Amazon cloud -- while maintaining control over scalability, security, and performance. Read More WEBCAST: Riverbed Extend the Virtual Edge of the Data Center to the Branch Organizations today are faced with the challenge of satisfying both end-users and IT. While end-users require flexible and reliable access to their data and applications, IT organizations need to meet those demands while keeping budgets under control and company assets secure. Learn More In this Issue Microsoft updates Visual Studio 2012 with better testing tools, Windows XP support Infor teams up with VMWare for virtualized ERP Boundary adds analytics features to cloud monitoring service NEC data center units to cut power usage by 30 percent with convection Digital watchdogs warn of spam, privacy issues with Facebook changes WHITE PAPER: NTT America Managing Security in the Cloud While the future of the hybrid cloud looks bright, lingering concerns about security are casting a shadow on deployment, sidelining some companies as they grapple with concerns related to compliance and the ownership of core business data. Learn More Microsoft updates Visual Studio 2012 with better testing tools, Windows XP support Microsoft's Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 (Visual Studio 2012.1) is now available for download. The update allows users to develop applications for Windows XP and more thoroughly test their work. The previous version of Microsoft's development tool was launched along with .Net 4.5 in September of this year. Read More Infor teams up with VMWare for virtualized ERP Infor has teamed up with VMWare to help customers of its Infor LN ERP (enterprise resource planning) software run on VMWare's latest virtualization technology, opening a door to cloud deployments and potentially lower infrastructure costs. The companies have created a reference architecture that customers and partners can use to create a virtual appliance with VMWare products such as vSphere, Cloud Director and vFabric, according to the announcement, which was made Tuesday. Read More Boundary adds analytics features to cloud monitoring service Boundary has added analytics features to its cloud monitoring service to give enterprises a better idea of how applications running on public clouds are performing and warn them when something starts to go wrong. Boundary is delivered as software-as-a-service and the new analytics features are being added this week, according to CEO Gary Read. Read More NEC data center units to cut power usage by 30 percent with convection NEC is working on a new type of small data center unit that uses convection to slash power usage by a third. The Japanese electronics giant said Tuesday it has designed a new type of portable data center that can use the temperature difference between hot air exhaled from servers and untreated air from outside to create air flow and lessen the need for dedicated coolers. Read More Digital watchdogs warn of spam, privacy issues with Facebook changes Two digital rights group urged Facebook on Tuesday to halt changes to its governance and data use policies, warning the modifications could increase privacy risks. Facebook said last Wednesday it would no longer allow users to vote on proposed policy changes. The social networking site also changed its Data Use Policy, allowing third parties to access user data, and modified a setting that allows users to control the types of messages they receive by email. Read More
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