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Microsoft to grow Office 365's capacity to import contacts from third-party tools

Posted May 3, 2013 - 1:56 pm

Office 365 users will increasingly be able to import contacts from external applications after the suite's initial rollout of this capability for Facebook and LinkedIn.
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Supersize your free cloud storage to 100GB or more

Posted May 3, 2013 - 11:05 am

Massive amounts of cloud storage for zero money. All this can be yours, with the right strategy and a little help from your friends.
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The software licensing gotchas in the cloud

Posted May 2, 2013 - 1:47 pm

Some software vendors have embraced virtualization and the cloud, but others impose defensive licenses that serve no one.
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CIOs must manage the risk of the status quo

Posted May 2, 2013 - 1:43 pm

One of a CIO's greatest risks is not moving fast enough, says columnist Adam Hartung. Here's how to avoid out-of-date thinking.
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Amazon Web Services will continue to disrupt enterprises, IT vendors

Posted May 1, 2013 - 2:16 pm

Traditional IT vendors may deride Amazon as a mere bookseller, but Amazon Web Service is growing quickly, not to mention inexpensively. If those vendors aren't careful, AWS will soon compete against them in the enterprise cloud computing market--and if current trends hold, the competition may not even be close.
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Benchmarking Amazon EC2: The wacky world of cloud performance

Posted May 1, 2013 - 2:14 pm

The performance of Amazon machine instances is sometimes fast, sometimes slow, and sometimes absolutely abysmal.
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Arista heading off Cisco/Insieme at 100G SDNs?

Posted May 1, 2013 - 2:02 pm

Arista is raising the ante in high-density programmable core switching and perhaps setting the stage for things to come.
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Verizon rolls out mostly pointless cloud-storage service

Posted May 1, 2013 - 1:45 pm

Verizon Wireless has announced a new cloud-storage service to compete with Dropbox, Google Drive, and SkyDrive, but it's not really clear why anyone would use it in place of those services.
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Amazon Web Services launches new certification program

Posted May 1, 2013 - 6:02 am

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a Global Certification Program, which will allow solutions architects, systems operations administrators, and developers to get proof of their cloud know-how.
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10gen expands MongoDB with storage service

Posted April 30, 2013 - 4:51 pm

Open source database provider 10gen is expanding into storage services, offering a hosted backup service for its flagship MongoDB data store.
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HP refreshes data center core and aggregation with SDN switches

Posted April 30, 2013 - 2:54 pm

HP this week refreshed its switch line and fortified its SDN portfolio with three new systems and a router, along with management and provisioning software extensions.
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Amazon takes aim at private clouds

Posted April 30, 2013 - 2:32 pm

An AWS executive, speaking at the company's summit in San Francisco, was critical of private clouds, saying that they were created by traditional enterprise vendors looking to protect their businesses.
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Virtualization showdown: Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 vs. VMware vSphere 5.1

Posted April 30, 2013 - 2:03 pm

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V brings advanced virtualization features to small shops, but VMware still reigns at the high end
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How to build a bulletproof cloud backup system without spending a dime

Posted April 30, 2013 - 2:01 pm

The no-cost guide to backing up photos, documents, music, and more.
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Review: VMware vSphere 5.1 looms large

Posted April 30, 2013 - 2:00 pm

VMware takes virtualization higher and deeper with rich storage automation and more advanced virtual networking tools
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Review: Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 narrows the gap

Posted April 30, 2013 - 1:56 pm

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V combines easy setup and management with new features that lower the entry barrier to highly available virtualization clusters
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How to avoid legal hassles when switching cloud vendors

Posted April 30, 2013 - 1:22 pm

Negotiate initial cloud computing contracts to address data ownership and pricing, or you risk delaying the migration when you want to change providers.
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Trend Micro seeks to make Amazon Web Services more secure

Posted April 30, 2013 - 10:08 am

Trend Micro announces a slate of cloud-based security services that it says protect servers for Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers.
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B2B Integration on Cloud: Real World Solutions and Technology Advances

Posted April 29, 2013 - 4:00 pm

Watch the webcast with IBM experts to learn about the advancing capabilities and strategic direction for B2B Integration on Cloud.
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IBM launches an appliance for the 'Internet of things'

Posted April 29, 2013 - 3:22 pm

Preparing its customers to join the emerging 'Internet of things', IBM has released a new appliance built to manage and route a voluminous amount of machine-to-machine small data messages
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Gartner: Worldwide CRM revenue grew 12.5 percent in 2012

Posted April 29, 2013 - 1:52 pm

Global CRM (customer relationship management) revenue grew 12.5 percent last year to US$18 billion, a rate three times that of all enterprise software segments on average, as companies look to acquire more business and serve existing customers better, according to a new Gartner report.
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Box takes electronic health records to the cloud

Posted April 29, 2013 - 1:26 pm

Healthcare was among the first industry verticals to adopt tablets and other mobile data devices, but getting the most out of mobile technology requires the capability to access large amounts of key information--like patient records.
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A brief history of the White House on social media

Posted April 29, 2013 - 11:48 am

By joining Tumblr, the Obama White House is continuing its own tradition of participating in social media networks
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21 tips for supercharging your cloud storage

Posted April 29, 2013 - 10:12 am

Enjoy offline access to essential files, get more gigabytes for free, and squeeze more productivity out of your cloud storage.
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How big is cloud's impact? Depends on who's asking

Posted April 29, 2013 - 9:58 am

Is cloud computing really catching on in the enterprise? Well, that depends on who you talk to, recent surveys have found.
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