[TechRepublic] What to expect from the cloud in 2012

The Enterprise Cloud TechRepublic Member | January 16, 2012

What to expect from the cloud in 2012: Experimentation Thoran Rodrigues says that the cloud trends for 2012 can be summed up in one word -- experimentation. He breaks downs some of the areas to watch. Read more Resource of the day IBM zEnterprise 114 Brings "Freedom-by-Design" to Mid-Sized Organizations In IT, it's easy to paint yourself into a corner. This is why flexibility and expandability are so important. Check out this white paper to learn how IBM has made adaptability a priority on their line of system Z products. Additional TechRepublic resources   Deploy an Azure VM Role Service Package John Joyner demonstrates the final steps to building a working VM role in the Azure public cloud -- deploying the service package using the Windows Azure Platform Management Portal. Read more Windows Azure system administration: Geared for the system-impaired Ian Hardenburgh explains why developers of Azure applications can more easily manage their own applications without having to pass it off to system or network administrators. Read more Purge your Google Chat list of Google+ contacts One of the surprises of adding a large number of people on Google+ is that everyone will appear in your Google Chat contact list. But using a hidden-away option will return your list to a more controllable state. Read more Five persistent Web application myths Read what Justin James has to say about a number of common myths he hears about Web applications. Read more Build a Drupal installation on Amazon EC2 Nick Hardiman performs a Drupal install on his Amazon EC2 machine and provides a cheat sheet of the steps and commands that he used to do it. Read more Featured multimedia   IBM shows data storage at the atomic level (images) Researchers from Big Blue say they have been able to store a bit of information with just 12 magnetic atoms. Today's disk drives require a minimum of a million atoms to do the same job. View on site Today's recommended downloads IBM's Migration Factory (IBM) The Key to a Powerful, Resilient, Affordable IT Infrastructure (IBM) The Mainframe Virtualization Advantage (IBM) IBM BladeCenter: Build Smarter IT (IBM) Discover New Dimensions in Workload Management (IBM) Connect with TechRepublic 10 tips for IT pros who have to travel during the winter Winter travel can turn a short hop into a long, frustrating journey. Here are some practical ways to get where you're going with fewer problems. TechRepublic newsletters   Get product reviews, tech news analysis, tips, and more in the following TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! Tech Sanity Check Google in the Enterprise TR Dojo 10 Things

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