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Six ways Amazon book streaming could help small business

Posted September 12, 2011 - 8:28 pm

The Internet is abuzz with talk of Amazon's rumored streaming service for books. This news is exciting for any business, professional, or student that relies on research from original sources.
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Mid-sized companies call cloud overrated; more than half have no cloud plans at all

Posted September 8, 2011 - 11:44 am

Most surveys show cloud computing is catching on so fast pollsters and providers can't keep up. A new one showing users with little enthusiasm except for specific services shows how big the difference is in segments that aren't really part of one "cloud market" at all.
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Be warned: cloud, virtual apps can magnify the cost of wasted software licenses

Posted September 7, 2011 - 3:32 pm

Did you go big for self-service streaming apps, virtual machines and cloud accounts, but didn't upgrade asset management at the same time? You'll go big on end-of-year license costs, too.
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Google StreetView becomes Amazon View and perhaps Mappers-Inside-of-Piranha-View

Posted August 22, 2011 - 2:40 pm

Amazon StreetView to ride panaoramic photo-taking trike down Amazon river, try to keep photographers from being eaten by anything endangered.
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German dis-'Like' prompts ridicule, presages more EU restrictions on web services

Posted August 22, 2011 - 12:00 am

One German state's ban of Facebook's "Like" button drew taunts about Teutonic humorlessness, but is anything but anomalous in an EU increasingly leery of loose U.S. rules on personal data.
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Rethinking the ESB: Building a simple, secure, scalable Service Bus with an SOA Gateway

Posted August 15, 2011 - 2:49 pm

For years the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) has been seen as a corporate integration and messaging backbone upon which application architectures are built. However, this concept must evolve to meet the requirements of today's corporate landscape, where IT boundaries are blurring, driven by the need to integrate with partners, cloud and mobile applications.
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Using a Business-Focused Approach in SOA Design, Governance

Posted August 3, 2011 - 2:28 pm

If you listen to industry discussion of service-oriented architecture (SOA), you are likely to get the impression that SOA is best thought of as a technical approach for application integration. The reality is that SOA is much more.
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Office 365 gives Microsoft a chance to leapfrog Google by making cloud apps easy

Posted June 27, 2011 - 10:01 am

Microsoft debuts the revamped version of its cloud-based office suite, Office 365, tomorrow, with better admin/management tools than Google and a price that keeps Microsoft in the game.
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Guide to building the enterprise cloud

Posted June 23, 2011 - 12:18 pm

Cloud computing is too flexible; if you can do anything, there is no guideline to doing it well. External guides are too generic, but these questions will help you build your own roadmap.
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Why businesses move to the cloud: They hate IT

Posted June 16, 2011 - 2:01 pm

Four-fifths of business unit managers said their businesses are so dependent on technology they can't serve customers without it; increasingly they're doing that via the cloud, not through IT.
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VMware takes two shots at cost of its products

Posted June 14, 2011 - 11:34 am

VMware, criticized by competitors and some customers for its high cost, takes aim at the bottom line with better cost reporting and analysis and making app dev costs vary with use.
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Users call virtualization, cloud huge disappointments; plan to keep buying anyway

Posted June 13, 2011 - 2:53 pm

End-user companies report an overwhelming disappointment in virtualization and cloud computing, expecting performance that's acceptable even if it never meets changing goals.
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CloudSwitch makes cloud easier to manage, by lying to it

Posted June 8, 2011 - 3:45 pm

Software vendor CloudSwitch supports all hypervisors and most clouds with an abstraction layer designed to keep your VMs from knowing they're running somewhere other than your data center.
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Hacks make Internet look lawless, but security just hasn't caught up to spear-phishers yet

Posted June 3, 2011 - 12:09 pm

Data breaches shake confidence in the cloud, blaming it for security gaps between new technology, old security policies and a human tendency toward trust. Fix that and you're golden.
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Hype confuses cloud customers who actually know more about it than they think

Posted May 31, 2011 - 1:53 pm

Surveys consistently show end-user companies are confused about how to secure, manage and buy cloud; if they left out the word "cloud," they'd already know most of the answers.
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Wall Street wants Ballmer's head, but for the wrong reasons

Posted May 27, 2011 - 10:57 am

Microsoft is making progress on several fronts that had it stuck a few months ago, but big investors aren't waiting to see if those positive indications will turn the company around. They want CEO Steve Ballmer fired.
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Citrix repackages your mess of phone and Web apps as 'Personal Cloud'

Posted May 25, 2011 - 1:36 pm

There are some impressive things in Citrix' biennial rush of product announcements, but many look focused only on unseating VMware, not creating real benefit for customers.
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Netflix isn't swamping the Internet; ISPs are overstating their congestion problems

Posted May 19, 2011 - 6:02 pm

Netflix streaming media makes up the most common form of Internet traffic, but it's not swamping ISP backbones, despite their complaints to the FCC, which lets them throttle with abandon.
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IBM, HP demonstrate fidelity problem with 'open' virtualization; KVM? Really?

Posted May 19, 2011 - 12:00 am

OVA is the latest in a long string of vendor consortia designed to back any kind of cloud or virtualization technology that will give IBM, HP and others a chance against VMware.
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IT outsourcers don't fulfill promises, invent work to inflate fees, survey respondents charge

Posted May 11, 2011 - 12:34 pm

The IT outsourcing market shrank during the past quarter, partially to cloud providers, while a new survey taps into a deep vein of distrust between IT and outsourcers.
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Amazon's east coast cloud crashes, brings down customers

Posted April 21, 2011 - 11:36 am

Amazon's EC2, poster child for enterprise class cloud computing, had major problems overnight, bringing down a series of web sites and other customers, marring its own reputation.
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Failure to see eye-to-eye with users about cloud could mean tough times for IT

Posted April 15, 2011 - 11:58 am

Cloud computing looks like a perfect, low-cost IT solution, at least to business managers, who are increasingly unhappy with IT for not giving them what they want, Accenture report shows.
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How late is too late for VMware everywhere?

Posted April 8, 2011 - 4:52 pm

VMware promises back-end performance improvements and more clients to fill out the very short list is has now, especially compared to Citrix.
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IEEE leaps into mob offering 'standards' for Cloud

Posted April 6, 2011 - 9:45 am

IEEE Cloud working groups have good intentions, objectivity, and lots of competition that didn't get to the party late.
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Tesla-Top Gear lawsuit bodes ill for green data center tech

Posted March 30, 2011 - 12:35 pm

You won't find one in a data center, but Tesla Motors continuing problems highlight the challenges of alternative power in cars, computers and almost anything else.
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