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clarecate
clarecate
1 day ago
How to monitor application performance in the cloud

What tool will help me determine what the user experience is for the apps they access in a cloud environment?

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hughye
hughye
4 days ago
Does data centre co-location still make sense for a SMB, or is it time to just go directly for the cloud?

In many ways, both are providing the same service. We have co-located our data centre for quite a while, and in general found it to be...

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blackdog
blackdog
3 weeks ago
How good of a productivity suite is Zoho?

I've been using Google Docs for a few years, but I've never really warmed up the the word processor. I was thinking of switching to...

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pcalento
pcalento
3 weeks ago
What does it take to choose a cloud service provider other than AWS?

Amazon Web Services is the gorilla in the cloud service provider segment, although there are an increasing number of alternatives. When...

Tags: aws, cloud, cloud-computing, service-provider |
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mstrauss
mstrauss
3 weeks ago
How well has switching from managing your own email server to an Email Service Provider worked for you?

We are considering moving over to an Email Service Provider (ESP). It takes a lot of our time managing our email server, and traffic...

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raven12
raven12
3 weeks ago
What are the most valuable skills to possess in a cloud-dominated IT world?
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ernard
ernard
4 weeks ago
What's the difference between Google Drive and Google Docs?

I went and enabled Google Drive today, after a short time got a message that it was ready. I went to it and said to myself, hmmm, this...

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SilverHawk
SilverHawk
4 weeks ago
How do you evaluate SaaS performance?

Like most companies, we have increasingly turned to the Cloud, both for storage and SaaS. Overall, this has been beneficial. Costs are...

Tags: application management, cloud, performance, SaaS |
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SaurabhTalbar_t...
5 weeks ago
I want to get involved in cloud based open source projects. Can some one please list out few projects and active community?
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dblacharski
dblacharski
5 weeks ago
What will it take for Google Drive to become the new Dropbox?

Google Drive is one of those things that has been been talked about for what seems like forever. Apparently it is finally about to...

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Quickbooks Online outage leaves some customers in sour mood
Intuit's Quickbooks Online service suffered an outage this week that left "a small subset" of customers unable to access their data, but the company says the problems with the on-demand accounting software have now been fixed.
Warren Buffett goes long on papers, says free news won't last
Buffett just bought 63 more newspapers. Is he locking up a dying market, or will paywalls revive papers?
Minnesota state government executive branch picks Microsoft to improve e-mail, collaboration
The Executive Branch of the Minnesota state government had its 40,000 end users on a mishmash of e-mail systems when in 2008 its IT group, the Office of Enterprise Technology (OET), decided to tackle the problem.
Customizable cloud SLAs on the way, researchers predict
Service-level agreements and legal standards for cloud offerings will become more customized to individual customers and vertical industries as the cloud market continues to mature and providers look for ways to differentiate their offerings, researchers at the University of London predict.
About 4.5 million Catholic school students to get Office 365
About 4.5 million Catholic school students will get access to Microsoft's Office 365 cloud e-mail and collaboration suite as part of a 3-year deal the software vendor struck with the Catholic International Education Office (OIEC).
Spotify deploys Salesforce Rypple for social enterprise
Digital music service Spotify is using employee performance management software from Salesforce.com to drive engagement within the company and make giving feedback more social.
McLaren CIO uses SAP's HANA to scale back on ‘expensive PhDs’
McLaren CIO Stuart Birrell has said that he is using SAP’s in-memory HANA technology to try and scale back on using “expensive PhD” skills within the group’s Formula 1 teams.
De Vere hotels consolidate online brands through private cloud
The De Vere hotel group has created a private cloud architecture to help consolidate its online brands.
Box to beef up IT administration features of cloud content management software
Box will start letting customers test a new set of IT administration controls for its cloud-hosted enterprise collaboration and content management software on Thursday.
10 years later, Alcatel-Lucent revisits Cisco and Juniper in the core
Alcatel-Lucent is set to give Cisco and Juniper another run for the money in core routing 10 years after its initial attempt failed.

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