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Featured Articles » Google Drops Prices for Drive Cloud Storage » Wheelings & Dealings: ownCloud Secures $6.3 million in New Round of Funding » The Education Sector is Ripe for Cloud Innovation and Adoption » RapidScale Makes CloudOffice Available on Samsung Solutions Exchange Sponsored By: AT&T WEBINAR: Connected Business Transformation for the Internet of Things (IoT) Thursday March 20, 2014 TIME: 2:00pm ET/ 11:00am PT Best Practices on accelerating IoT/M2M adoption across the enterprise with a standards based approach to harmonize your business operations for the future. A successful M2M / Connected Business/IoT strategy can be complex, with specific challenges inherent in the M2M/IoT space. Choosing the right approach, the right platform, and the right partner can simplify and accelerate M2M projects. Developing a common enablement framework for all business units is critical, and we will explore how to choose the right platform and standards based approach. What Attendees will learn: The value of a connected business strategy The role and advantages of an application development platform in an M2M project How to accelerate a go to market strategy How to scale from hundreds to thousands of connected devices Best practices from customer case study examples Who should attend: CTO, CIO Research & Development Managers M2M Developers IT Directors and Managers exploring M2M   Top Stories » Clouds Interconnect Offers Softswitch as a Service » InterCloud Systems Delivers Turnkey UC Platform for Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services » Relay2's Cloud-based Wireless LAN Solution Simplifies Deployment, Management of Wireless LAN » StarTek Selects AT&T Cloud Services   From The Expert Corner March 17, 2014 New Jersey's Open Data Centers Offers Carrier Neutral Connectivity for MSPs and Cloud Providers By Laura Stotler TMCnet Contributing Editor For cloud, hosted services and managed service providers (MSPs) interested in carrier neutral partnerships and low cost colocation facilities, New Jersey’s Open Data Centers offers an interesting solution. The company, which recently opened its first data center in Piscataway, NJ, provides a number of advantages for service providers who want to add points of presence (POPs) without spending a lot of money or time forging partner relationships. Open Data Centers recently participated in the IT EXPO Miami event, where the company discussed how service provider customers may benefit from its no monthly fee cost connect model. “We offer high volume access to carrier cross connects and interconnection,” said Erik Levitt, CEO of Open Data Centers...Read More   Featured Video What Should You Look for in a Cloud Hosting Provider?   TMCnet Free Premium Content » Avoiding Cloud Security Audit Pitfalls » Making the Leap: Taking your Call Center to the Cloud » Making Financial Services Cloud-Ready   Featured Channels » Cloud Call Center Resource » Cloud Hosting » Cloud Computing - Features   Webinars Download One of Our Webinars Today to learn about new opportunities to enhance your business. http://www.tmcnet.com/webinar/   Become a TMCnet Columnist! Become a TMCnet columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TMCnet Web site and this newsletter. Contact TMCnet Group Editorial Director, Erik Linask, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details.

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