Cloud Weekly Update: The Software-defined Data Center in the Enterprise

This Week In Cloud Friday, February 13

FEATURED RESEARCH The Software-defined Data Center in the Enterprise Due to agility needs, budget constraints, and compliance mandates, smaller enterprises now have the same need for software-defined principles used the world's largest webscale data centers. Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial   by Ben Kepes   February 12, 2015   Multicloud Brokerage: Managing the Complexity of Choice The choice of cloud services for businesses is increasingly complex. Many enterprises and service providers are turning to cloud services brokers to simplify the management and aggregation of public and private cloud offerings. Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial   by David S. Linthicum   February 11, 2015   Flash in the Data Center: Solid-state Drives For Enterprise Workloads Flash enables and accelerates key data center initiatives in database, analytics, cloud computing, and virtualized desktop infrastructure. Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial   by George Crump   February 9, 2015

ANALYST BLOG POSTS What the VMware-Google Partnership Could Mean for the Cloud Market  byJanakiram MSV Survey: Experience with Cloud and Containers  by Gigaom Research Amazon Ups the Enterprise Ante with Corporate Email Service  by Janakiram MSV Google is Adding a Private Registry to its Docker Arsenal  by Janakiram MSV Why AWS Lambda is a Masterstroke from Amazon  by Janakiram MSV Users can chart the course of SDN at next ONUG meeting  by Robert Cohen Managed service providers: the conduits for cloud services consumption  by Ashar Baig Getting a head start on IoT at Structure Connect  by Ken Andersen How enterprises can ensure success with the public cloud  by Gigaom Research Structure Connect 2014 brings IoT visionaries to the mainstage this October  byGigaom Research