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	GitHub CEO: We're helping software eat the world CEO Tom Preston-Werner explains the appeal of his cloud-based code repository, why Andreessen Horowitz invested $100 million, and what 'optimizing for happiness' really means. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP ESG Offers Guidance on Ensuring Your Network is Cloud-Ready Networks have lagged behind servers and storage when it comes to enabling cloud computing. IT organizations must go well beyond tactically replacing a switch here or there or upgrading to a higher bandwidth core. This ESG reports offers research and guidance on taking a strategic approach to deploying a software-defined network. Learn More In this Issue Microsoft needs to step up its cloud game Amazon drops cloud prices, again RightScale joins OpenStack WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation Big Data, Big Storage Demands Unstructured data in the enterprise is growing faster than ever. With this surge in growth comes the need for new approaches to managing such data. What's needed is scale-out storage and analytics tools that offer improved data availability, performance and scalability – all which derive valuable insight and a competitive edge. Learn more. Microsoft needs to step up its cloud game Although Microsoft is making real progress in the move to cloud computing, it's not leading as it should -- but Amazon, Apple, and Google are. Read More Amazon drops cloud prices, again Amazon Web Services announced an 18 percent price reduction for its virtual machines, the 21st time the leading infrastructure as a service (IaaS) vendor has dropped prices since launching its cloud in 2006. Read More RightScale joins OpenStack RightScale, whose management platform that acts as an integrator for companies using public cloud resources, will support customer deployments into Rackspace's OpenStack-powered cloud. Read More
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