Microsoft Launches Into Cloud Race With Office 365; Google Health, PowerMeter Join Other Failed Web Service Initiatives

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TOP STORIES - June 30, 2011 • Microsoft Launches Into Cloud Race With Office 365 • Google Health, PowerMeter Join Other Failed Web Service Initiatives • ICANN's Custom Domains May Make Cyber-Squatting More Expensive • DotCloud Goes GA With Multiple-Stack Cloud Development Platform • Plan Cloud Migrations Carefully to Avoid Finger Pointing Later SPOTLIGHT Six IT Skills With Rising Pay We take a look at what IT skills are paying, which ones are not and what certifications, if any, IT pros should work toward. READ MORE >> BEST OF eWEEK • Galaxy Tab 10.1 Takes Aim at iPad 2 • HTC Evo 3D 4G Delivers Dazzling 3D • Google Speeds Up Web-Page Downloads • Shielding Implants From Cyber-Attack FEATURED VIDEO Getting SMBs Online A robust Web presence with next-gen commerce tech could pave path to success. WATCH NOW >> MOST READ STORIES • Firefox 5 Sports Speed, Security • U2 Turns to Dell for an Extra Edge • How Security Experts Stay Safe Online • Top Programming Languages for 2011 IN THIS ISSUE Microsoft Launches Into Cloud Race With Office 365 Much is riding on Microsoft's Office 365, which launched June 28. If Office 365 succeeds with businesses and consumers, it'll help validate the company's choice of an "all in" cloud strategy. If the platform fails, it'll provide an opening for other cloud-software producers--most notably Google, which already offers a cloud-productivity platform with Google Apps. READ MORE >> Google Health, PowerMeter Join Other Failed Web Service Initiatives Google June 24 quietly announced it will close Google Health and Google PowerMeter, two Web services that failed to catch on among consumers. The products are also just the latest of several once-prominent Web service initiatives and applications that Google had to sunset because of lack of interest. We take a look at the major cloud services Google has shelved. READ MORE >> Sponsored by Symantec.cloud Visit the new Security Solution Center on eWEEK.com for the latest IT security news, reviews, videos, and resources. Go to the Security Solution Center ADVERTISEMENT ICANN's Custom Domains May Make Cyber-Squatting More Expensive For organizations already battling cyber-squatting, ICANN's expansion of top-level domain suffixes may just mean more domains to register defensively. READ MORE >> DotCloud Goes GA With Multiple-Stack Cloud Development Platform DotCloud is a second-generation PAAS provider whose secret sauce makes it simpler for developers to deploy and scale their applications while delivering the flexibility and robustness required by critical business software. READ MORE >> Plan Cloud Migrations Carefully to Avoid Finger Pointing Later Organizations need to plan carefully how they transfer important IT resources and enterprise applications to the cloud to sidestep potential problems, according to one industry expert at a Ziff Davis Enterprise Digital University presentation. READ MORE >> How to Get Started with Cloud Computing View this panel discussion with IBM cloud computing leaders on how enterprises can get started with cloud computing -- reviewing which workloads make sense to move first and the right type of cloud for workloads. DOWNLOAD NOW >> What You Need to Succeed in the Cloud Find out how to begin your journey to the cloud today. To ensure you arrive at your destination when you want, use True PaaS for better, more accurate navigation for your journey. DOWNLOAD NOW >> Public, Private, and Hybrid: All about Clouds and How to Choose One Jul 20, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern / 11:00 a.m. Pacific (60 minutes) Cloud computing has become so popular today that other important IT infrastructure solutions, including consolidation, virtualization and disaster recovery have taken a back seat. But while clouds offer numerous benefits, including scalability, cost and ease of management, they also present challenges that must be overcome before organizations can start reaping those benefits REGISTER >> Building an Efficient Test / Development Management Process Jul 21, 2011 at 3:00 p.m. Eastern / 12:00 p.m. Pacific (60 minutes) Many companies have virtualized their test and development environments as a first foray into virtualization. But even on this small scale, some of the challenges of managing virtual infrastructures become evident. Manual provisioning processes can delay the delivery of virtual machines to developers. Developers may oversize their requirements just to save time, which results in VM sprawl as test/dev machines are abandoned and forgotten. REGISTER >>

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