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vSphere upgrade saga: Upgrading the storage on your Iomega ix2-200

Posted December 26, 2012 - 8:03 am

1TB is just not enough for everything I have.
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It's not all about the cloud: Why hybrid ITSM is here to stay

Posted December 25, 2012 - 9:53 pm

"Cloud-based" might be the most overused marketing term of 2012. Vendors of all stripes seem to believe an edict has been handed down to enterprise IT management who now want all cloud all the time.
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2012: The year cloud computing took a bite out of IT

Posted December 24, 2012 - 2:06 pm

As new public cloud plays leap in and the private cloud slowly evolves, we're on the brink of a shift to cloud computing for critical business workloads
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Upcoming Salesforce.com release focuses on Chatter, analytics, Touch

Posted December 24, 2012 - 1:54 pm

Salesforce.com's next product update will feature scores of new capabilities for its core CRM (customer relationship management) application as well as the Chatter messaging and collaboration service.
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Automatically add files to Dropbox

Posted December 22, 2012 - 8:45 am

Reader Daniel Gilbert seeks to make better use of Dropbox. He writes:
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SAP in 2013: Five things to watch

Posted December 21, 2012 - 5:11 pm

It was a typically busy year for SAP, with the company making headlines for strong sales of its HANA in-memory database, high-profile acquisitions and aggressive moves into cloud computing.
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Amazon Web Services accommodates big data storage

Posted December 21, 2012 - 2:09 pm

Eyeing the growing market for big data analysis, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced a storage package, called High Storage, that can offer fast access to large amounts of data.
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Does Cloud Sherpas' cash infusion mean cloud is too complicated?

Posted December 21, 2012 - 1:02 pm

Cloud Sherpas received $40 million in funding to help grow its business that helps companies implement and integrate Google Apps and Salesforce
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The Weekly Hash - December 21, 2012

Posted December 21, 2012 - 12:13 pm

A silly review of tech stories from this past week, today featuring the Dead Sea Scrolls going online, SpongeBob violating kids privacy and a Linday Lohan-inspired NASA mission
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Cloud Sherpas funding, acquisition points to hot SaaS market

Posted December 20, 2012 - 10:06 pm

Atlanta-based consultancy Cloud Sherpas today announced $40 million in new funding and the acquisition of another consulting firm in California named Cloud Trigger.
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To the Cloud & Beyond: Learning to Get Virtualization Right

Posted December 20, 2012 - 7:00 pm

The five-year outlook for cloud shows an annual growth rate of 26%, which is 5x greater than the rate of traditional on-premise IT offerings.
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Why Oracle bought Eloqua, and what it means for the market

Posted December 20, 2012 - 4:59 pm

Oracle surprised many tech industry observers by announcing Thursday it would pay US$871 million for marketing automation software vendor Eloqua. The move seemed a bit unlikely given the amount of sales and marketing software Oracle already had.
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Mac users get an official Ubuntu One client

Posted December 20, 2012 - 12:23 pm

Google's Drive file storage and synchronization service may often claim a larger share of media headlines than Canonical's competing Ubuntu One cloud service does, but this week Ubuntu One gained a critical competitive edge.
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If Tim Cook recapped Apple's 2012

Posted December 20, 2012 - 12:05 pm

The Apple CEO’s (hypothetical) holiday letter to family and friends, recapping the company’s eventful 2012
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10 of the most useful cloud databases

Posted December 19, 2012 - 2:19 pm

Big data is becoming a big deal and cloud providers want to be the place where enterprises databases live.
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As standalone businesses, PaaS providers aren't cutting it

Posted December 19, 2012 - 2:18 pm

A Forrester survey shows that the established vendors with PaaS offerings are more attractive to developers than the smaller, standalone service providers.
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Citrix: What kind of company is it anyway?

Posted December 19, 2012 - 12:44 pm

Citrix is many different things to many people. It's a cloud company, it's a virtualization player, it's a mobile technologies vendor and it's a collaboration products provider. In this interview, CEO Mark Templeton dishes on Citrix's overall strategy, its relationships with Cisco, Microsoft and Apple, its rivalry with VMware, and its controversial take on open source cloud computing.
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IT workforce can't meet demand for cloud skills

Posted December 19, 2012 - 12:39 pm

According to a recent IDC study, demand for cloud skills will increase at six times the rate of overall IT skills and the talent pool simply isn't big enough to accommodate the growth.
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5 cloud computing trends that will be big in 2013

Posted December 19, 2012 - 12:37 pm

Will 2013 finally be the year executives stop worrying about cloud security and actually start looking at their bills from cloud service providers? Columnist Bernard Golden thinks so. He has four other cloud computing predictions for 2013, too.
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Microsoft courts Google Apps small-biz users with longer Office 365 free deal

Posted December 19, 2012 - 12:31 pm

For the second day in a row, Microsoft on Tuesday pitched one of its products to customers abandoned by arch-rival Google.
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vSphere upgrade saga: Fixing backup and other virtual appliances

Posted December 19, 2012 - 8:48 am

Ever since I upgraded vCenter Server to v5.1, my backup tool has been failing, unable to connect to vCenter. This is not unexpected as my SSL certificate for vCenter changed, and with that change comes the need to fix my backup tool. How to do this is fairly straight-forward actually.
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Review: Windows Azure shoots the moon

Posted December 19, 2012 - 7:17 am

Microsoft's cloud wows with great price-performance, Windows toolchain integration, and plenty of open source options
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PostGres offered as a cloud cluster service

Posted December 18, 2012 - 6:01 pm

Eyeing greater use of the open source Postgres database in the cloud, hosting provider Open Hosting has launched a service that allows users to run an automated cluster of PostGres databases on the company's own servers.
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Oracle Q2 profits rise 18 percent, but hardware sales continue to slide

Posted December 18, 2012 - 5:30 pm

Oracle on Tuesday reported that net income jumped 18 percent to US$2.6 billion while revenue rose 3 percent to $9.1 billion for the second quarter, but the company's hardware revenue continued to show weakness.
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Amazon allows users to spread workloads more broadly now

Posted December 18, 2012 - 4:16 pm

Amazon Web Services today announced a new feature that allows users to replicate block storage volumes across regions of the world, which will make it easier for systems to stay up in case of a cloud outage.
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