Apps: The Heart and Soul of Cloud Providers' Product

Finding us in your spam mailbox? Please add us to your address book! Trouble viewing this email? View in Browser  Manage my subscriptions Optimizing Infrastructure January 27, 2012 Cloud Apps: The Seven Deadly Sins A highly optimized infrastructure, no matter how state of the art, is meaningless without the apps. Applications are the heart and soul of winning new cloud business, securing recurring revenue and ensuring customer satisfaction. So, how can private cloud providers ensure delivery of an application cloud rather than an infrastructure cloud? rPath has identified the seven deadly sins of cloud apps and best practices for avoiding them. Read more > Featured White Papers Five Key Considerations for a More Agile Infrastructure This white paper looks at five considerations to enable a more agile infrastructure, discusses the dependencies between location, scale, cost, performance, and flexibility, and explores how you can increase your agility with a new approach to the network that connects everything. •  Complete Web Protection: The Four Rules You Must Know •  Ten Errors to Avoid When Commissioning a Data Center •  Protecting Sensitive Data: Must-Read Encryption Guidance Eight Cloud Security Predictions for 2012 With the cloud, in the blink of an eye, you gain access to all the resources you desire, and at a fraction of the cost of building out additional physical infrastructure. Given the ease of access and relative low cost, the cloud continued to rapidly gain traction during 2011. What can we expect this year? Download: Apple iPad 2 Quick Reference Custom Guide's Quick Reference on the iPad 2 includes all the pertinent info you need to get savvy, describing the hardware, apps and gestures. Five SSD Predictions for 2012 All things considered, the real impact of SSDs probably won't be felt until the second half of this year. Latest White Papers The Blueprint for an Effective Information Architecture Less Time, Less Money: How to Cut Backup Time in Half Security Strategies for the BYOD Invasion The Changing Definition of Failure for IT Systems Brocade® Ethernet fabrics Get a highly automated network with Brocade® Ethernet fabric. Brocade fabrics dramatically increase automation. Brocade.The world leader in Ethernet fabrics. > "Virtual desktop infrastructure has been trying to get off the ground for some time, and, to be fair, it has met with a certain amount of success. But it's also fair to say that it has failed to gain the respect it craves as a transformational enterprise technology, if only because it has not completely replaced the traditional hardware desktop." Excerpt from Arthur Cole Infrastructure Blogs Mike Vizard IT Unmasked The Coming Convergence of IT Management in the Cloud Paul Mah SMB Tech Build Your Own Private Cloud with Two NASes Arthur Cole Infrastructure Solid-State Storage and PCIe: Fast and Furious for the Enterprise Redefining Server Performance Benchmarks   Check out this resource center to a high-performance, low-cost application solution for your data center needs. Go there now > This e-mail is sent by: IT Business Edge, property of QuinStreet, Inc. Attn: Newsletter Subscription Dept. 950 Tower Lane, 6th Floor Foster City, CA 94404 Copyright © 2012 QuinStreet, Inc. All rights reserved. E-mail Reports Sign up for these additional e-mail reports to get the best return on your company's technology and talent: •  Aligning IT & Business Goals    •  Optimizing Infrastructure    •  Integrating the Enterprise    •  Maximizing IT Investments    •  Business Tools & Templates •  IT Careers •  Leveraging Enterprise Software •  Managing Compliance Standards •  Mobile and Telecom •  Fortifying Network Security •  Daily Edge Privacy Policy     Manage Subscriptions     Unsubscribe     Contact Us     How to Advertise