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A new career website that launched on Monday aims to be a one-stop shop for hiring managers and job seekers.

http://www.cisco.com/go/cloudindex An animation telling the story of datacenter traffic growth, through the scope of the back office of a cupcake bakery. Transcript: How big will cloud computing be in 2015? Consider the cupcake. When you interact with a business -- such as a bakery -- your request is sent to a datacenter. The order entry datacenter stores your information, authenticates it, and synchronizes it with other systems. For many businesses, this internal processing can generate as much as 80% of the datacenter traffic. From there, another 15% of your baker's datacenter traffic comes from sending the order to the factory datacenter where it's put into production. Finally, the last 5% of traffic is generated by the confirmation notice of your cupcake order. So while you don't see it, the total traffic generated from a single order can multiply exponentially, and that can be a challenge for businesses and service providers to handle. This global datacenter traffic reached 1.1 zettabytes in 2010, and will grow more than four-fold to 4.8 zettabytes by 2015. Of that, Cloud traffic is growing two-times faster than traditional data center traffic. While in 2010, only 21% of workloads were processed through the cloud, by 2015, that figure will jump to 57%. More workloads moving to the cloud means less complexity in the datacenter, improved economies of scale, and most importantly, more cupcakes.

At the GigaOm Net:Work conference in San Francisco, Google's Rajen Sheth talks about how the product development of Gmail inspired Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt to embrace cloud computing. The three at first "soundly rejected the idea" of Gmail because he was pitching it as packaged software, Sheth says. A few months later he came back with the concept of putting Gmail in the cloud.

Video: In today's edition, they discuss how investors can play the cloud computing trend. Dave offers up three broad strategies with a couple of stock ideas for each. Dave also mentions the ones he is considering for his real-money portfolio.

Cloud computing plays a vital role in helping executives bring their companies into the future. Learn how innovative cloud solutions are opening new possibilities for Kaiser Permanente, ING, Navistar, Bharti Airtel, and others.

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Video: Andrew McAfee, principal research scientist, MIT Center for Digital Business, offers three suggestions for experimentation.