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This Week in Cloud, January 3, 2013: RIM sells NewBay, Amazon’s Christmas Eve outage, Can a cloud provider pull the plug on your service? And more…

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Cloud News

  • Research In Motion (RIM) has sold NewBay, its cloud services company, to Synchronoss Technologies for $55.5 million, according to this Talkin’ Cloud article. The acquisition will expand the global presence of Synchronoss and add the major mobile operators in Europe to its customer list.

  • Amazon Web Services experienced an outage which left Netflix customers without service on Christmas Eve, according to this New York Times article. Amazon traced the outage to an issue with its load balancing service.

  • A recent IDC report predicts that 7 million jobs will be created by cloud computing over the next three years, according to this InformationWeek article. The report, which was sponsored by Microsoft, also claims that there are currently 1.7 million cloud-related job openings worldwide.

Feature Article

Capacity Management on the Journey to Cloud

By Jeremy Rossbach, CA Technologies

Jeremy Rossbach

Cloud initiatives are at the top of many our customers’ to-do lists nowadays. Whether they are looking to migrate applications to the cloud or just choose the appropriate cloud provider to host a business service during peak utilization periods, capacity management is at the heart of these difficult business decisions. A capacity management solution can provide answers to questions like "How will my workloads affect the performance of the cloud provider's hosted platforms I consume?" and "How can I be sure my application's performance will not suffer when migrating to the cloud?" Read the full article.

Cloud Views

  • Can your cloud provider pull the plug on your service? In this InfoWorld blog, Simon Phipps examines the terms of use from some of the leading cloud providers and reveals that cloud providers maintain the right to suspend your service.

  • What are your cloud computing resolutions for 2013? In this InfoWorld blog, David Linthicum shares his suggestions for 2013, including: I resolve not to cloud-wash, not to use cloud computing for everything, to always consider management, performance, and service governance, and not to question cloud security before I understand the technology.

  • Are you looking for a wide variety of cloud and IT predictions for 2013? On VMblog.com, David Marshall shares the 2013 predictions of numerous cloud companies, including Dell, HP, CA Technologies and Rackspace.

Trend Watch

  • What can CIOs do to drive innovation? In this Smart Enterprise blog, Denise Dubie recaps a recent Talking Innovation podcast with Jacob Lamm, executive VP of Strategy and Corporate Development at CA Technologies, where he discusses how the CIO’s role needs to change in order to embrace and drive innovation across the organization.

  • Are vendors rebranding their products to ride the hype of big data? In this Forbes blog, Edd Dumbill discusses the imprecision of the term ‘big data’ and how some vendors are capitalizing on the trend.

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