Relentless economies of scale punish would-be enterprise clouds

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The Cloud Revolution January 12, 2015 Editor of this Newsletter Mary Weilage | Senior Editor | @TechRepublic Mary Weilage is a Senior Editor for the CBS Interactive site TechRepublic. Relentless economies of scale punish would-be enterprise clouds Verizon and others want to beat Amazon by offering "enterprise clouds." It's a losing strategy. Resource of the day On-demand Webcast: Centrify and Dropbox for Secure Collaboration View this webcast now to learn how Dropbox for Business and Centrify can help you protect your corporate data with secure authentication, identity management, and mobile device management for Dropbox and thousands of SaaS apps. Additional TechRepublic resources 10 ways IT can hit the ground running in 2015 Will 2015 be the year of the Microsoft/Linux love fest? Lawsuit against Apple for iOS storage misrepresentation: Get the facts 10 enterprise startups to watch in 2015 Factor in the people side of cloud risk management What 2014 taught us about the shifting startup landscape Featured multimedia CES 2015: A photo tour of the best and most interesting stuff Today's recommended downloads On-demand Webcast: Centrify and Dropbox for Secure Collaboration (Centrify) eBook: Unleash Analytics that Drive Business Growth (Hewlett-Packard & Intel®) Live Webcast: A Fast, Secure Path to the Cloud (NetApp) Creating Operational Efficiencies and Overcoming Legacy IT (Nutanix) Webcast: Moving the Data Center to Hyper-Converged and Web-Scale: A Customer and Analyst View (Nutanix) Connect with TechRepublic A Special Feature from TechRepublic and ZDNet Enterprise Startups: Risk vs. Reward Enterprise-focused startups have emerged as some of tech's hotbeds of innovation. We highlight how partnering with startups can help companies leapfrog competitors and we provide perspective on how to approach buying IT solutions from enterprise startups. TechRepublic newsletters Get product reviews, tech news analysis, tips, and more in the following TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! Startups The Mobile Revolution Visit the Subscription Center to get other free newsletters, manage your account settings or to be removed from TechRepublic communications. The e-mail address for your subscription is habib2best@gmail.com. Unsubscribe | Send Feedback | FAQ | Advertise | Privacy Policy Copyright 2015 CBS Interactive, Inc. All rights reserved. TechRepublic is a registered service mark of CBS Interactive, Inc. TechRepublic 235 Second Street San Francisco, CA 94105 U.S.A.