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Sign up for other newsletters  |  Unsubscribe  |  Update your profile Volume: 1, Issue: 05 - February 23, 2011 A Fortnightly Magazine for IT Professionals Dear Friends, Transition to the cloud--whether it's a wholesale shift or moving small pieces of your IT infrastructure to start with; whether it's delivered on-premise or through a provider-the ability to manage and control the environment is paramount. In fact, the trust factor is one of the perceived barriers to cloud computing. Trust grows out of visibility into infrastructure, applications and data protection policies. Microsoft's System Center suite can help bridge those visibility gaps between the traditional enterprise datacenter, the virtual datacenter, and the cloud by taking the processes and management skills in place for your current infrastructure and applying it to whatever you provision over time. That datacenter-to-cloud approach makes System Center and Windows Server 2008 R2 a powerful combined solution for implementing the IT-as-a-service model which promises cost efficiency and business agility gains. In this edition we bring you an insightful collection of articles, how do I videos, white papers that will help you understand and manage this capability really well. We have Tony Scott, Microsoft CIO also offering a glimpse into what does cloud mean to the modern day CIOs. Do check out the Video here. Many thanks and happy reading... Chinmaya Saxena IT Pro Audience Marketing Manager Microsoft Corporation (India) Pvt. Ltd.   Pradyumn Lavaniya Director - Private Cloud Microsoft India Microsoft provides the most comprehensive approach to cloud computing, so that you can harness the full power of the cloud on your terms. 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