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	Clouds are backing up clouds, with more choices on tap Nasuni introduced a cloud-to-cloud mirroring option to give customers extra assurance that their data will be available in case of a service outage. The same day, cloud-to-cloud backup vendor Backupify added more choices for where users can have their data sent. Read More ARTICLE: VMWare Click to continue In this Issue The cloud's next big federal spying threat Google, Microsoft play catch up to Amazon, add load balancing, auto-scaling to their clouds Dimension Data plans cloud backup for its computing services Joyent CTO: How big data platforms should work WHITE PAPER: NeuStar, Inc. Reducing the Risk to Online Content with IP Intelligence This paper explores how you can use IP intelligence to protect your assets, while detailing key best practices that can turn risk into reward. Learn More. The cloud's next big federal spying threat Citing the Patriot act, the FBI is pressuring telecom carriers (such as AT&T and Verizon) to install "port reader" software that would allow the agency to intercept and analyze entire communication streams in real time. Read More Google, Microsoft play catch up to Amazon, add load balancing, auto-scaling to their clouds Google rolled out load balancing features to its public cloud service. The rollout comes just a few months after Microsoft improved its Azure cloud service with new auto-scaling features. Both companies are effectively playing catch-up with leading IaaS provider Amazon Web Services, which already offers such features. Read More Dimension Data plans cloud backup for its computing services Global services provider Dimension Data announced it will offer cloud-based backup as an option for its CaaS (computing-as-a-service) offering beginning in October. The announcement came the same day that Backupify and Nasuni introduced services that can back up cloud-based data to another cloud. Read More Joyent CTO: How big data platforms should work Jason Hoffman, CTO and founder of cloud service provider Joyent, details how combining object storage and parallel compute clusters can make working with big data easier and faster by eliminating bottlenecks. Read More
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