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Cloud computing skills shortage forces CIOs to grow their own

Posted April 14, 2012 - 7:35 am

When Majestic Realty Co., a Los Angeles-based commercial real estate developer, moved to Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) for cloud-based email in early 2011, CIO Jon Grunzweig was shocked by the lack of technical support he found for BPOS in the marketplace.
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Cloud services vs. desktop apps: What fits your needs?

Posted June 2, 2011 - 8:15 am

Should you take wing to the cloud? The answer depends on whether you're sending email, creating a slideshow, or editing an photograph.
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Mitigating the risk of cloud services failure

Posted April 25, 2011 - 3:28 pm

The two-day outage at one of Amazon's data centers has everyone questioning the reliability of infrastructure as a service offerings. Here are seven tips for limiting your risk in the event of cloud services failure.
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Two open-source cloud standards: What it means to you

Posted April 20, 2011 - 3:08 pm

It's unlikely that hordes of VMware, Citrix or Microsoft Hyper-V users will flock to open-source virtualization or cloud-computing platform as an alternative to the hypervisors and virtualized infrastructure-management software they've already chosen, analysts say. So where does open source fit in the cloud world? Think lock-in and migration flexibility.
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