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IaaS: Renting On-Demand Technology

Putting your faith in the cloud can be a risky endeavor. A survey from earlier this year showed that of 600 large companies, only 27% were using public cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service. Full Story »
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About 4.5 Million Catholic School Students to Get Office 365

The deal between Microsoft and the Catholic Church could be escalated later to include 43 million students

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Box to Beef Up IT Administration Features of Cloud Content Management Software

The company will start letting customers beta-test the new capabilities on Thursday

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5 Tips for Social Business Adoption: How SAS Succeeded

SAS needed a way to consolidate information repositories and wrangle millennials from using Facebook for work purposes. Here's how the business analytics company decided on and rolled out their enterprise collaboration platform, plus tips for success.

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Can Nvidia's Kepler Processor Revolutionize Virtual Desktop Hosting?

Nvidia recently demoed its long-awaited Kepler graphics processor with no less than a simulation of two galaxies colliding. On a practical level, though, the technology could answer many questions about virtual desktop hosting and, in the process, fill glaring holes in BYOD policies.

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VMware Envisions Virtualization in Post-PC, BYOD Era

VMware wasn't just looking to save money when it launched a BYOD plan with the mandate that all of its U.S. employees use their personal mobile phones for work. It was taking a crash-course that would help shape its vision of post-PC era computing.

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SAP Lays Out Cloud Strategy Post-successfactors Deal

The company will sell its SaaS (software as a service) products as a 'loosely coupled suite'

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About 600,000 L.a. Community College Students to Get Microsoft Live@EDU

The institution considered Google Apps for Education but chose Microsoft's cloud email and collaboration suite for schools and universities

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Cloud, BYOD Increases Need for Automated IAM Systems

As traditional security concepts of perimeter and end-point defense break down as a result of the proliferation of cloud services and the BYOD phenomenon, enterprises are increasingly feeling the need for greater control over access to applications. That's where automated identity and access management comes in.

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Google Simplifies Use of Analytics API

A new tool allows developers to create dashboards without having to learn Analytics APIs

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Can Google Apps Unseat Microsoft Office and Exchange?

The BYOD phenomenon and the need to collaborate with mobile users and international subsidiaries led New England Biolabs to weigh a switch from Microsoft Office and Exchange Server to Google Apps. The results of their proof-of-concept testing surprised many, including the CIO.

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Infrastructure Cloud Services Take a Shift Toward Paas

Services providers that have traditionally offered infrastructure as a service (IaaS) clouds are beginning to move up the stack into the platform as a service (PaaS) market in an effort to diversify their portfolio and respond to increasing customer demand for cloud-based development services.

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Office Live Small Business is Closed, but Customers Still Grapple with Migration

The MIcrosoft e-mail and website hosting service shut down days ago, but many small businesses haven't yet moved to another service

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Saas Offering Provides Detailed Analysis of Your Software Portfolio

Are you faced with the need to do a software portfolio analysis but find the prospect daunting given the scattered nature of your operation? A new SaaS-based offering from Cast might fit the bill.

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At Interior Department, Google Apps Will Co-exist with Outlook, Office -- for Now

While the agency chose Gmail for backend e-mail, it will give employees the option of continuing to use Outlook and Office on the desktop

 
This ESG Lab review sponsored by HP + Intel documents hands-on testing of HP 3PAR Peer Motion Software's distributed volume.

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Most software providers tout some version of Cloud, or SaaS systems, leading to confusion about the solution models. This paper defines the terms, describes how to tell the difference between true SaaS and SaaS pretenders, and outlines the model's short- and long-term benefits.
Plex Online Cloud ERP is an innovative approach to manufacturing software. This paper summarizes its six game-changing characteristics, including ERP integration; ease of use; and continually enhanced, up-to-date functionality.
In this ever-changing world of software development, it's critical to keep up with technologies, methodologies and trends. Discover five tested and proven software development practices your team should be utilizing to accelerate software delivery.
When considering new applications, the question has changed from "Build or Buy?" to "Buy or Rent?" This free paper analyzes the implications and costs of purchasing and implementing cloud-based software (SaaS) vs. traditional on-premise software.
Over a three-year timeframe, a broad sampling of SuccessFactors customers outperformed the NASDAQ and S&P 500 indices by a wide margin. Get this informative study and learn how Business Execution Software helped them achieve such great results.
IT departments have increased developer productivity, saved millions, and realized governance by implementing DevOps. ALM 2.0+ fosters integration with operations and accepts tool and platform heterogeneity, helping FT1000 customers worldwide transitioning to DevOps.
This webinar will cover five tested and proven software development practices that your team should be utilizing right now to accelerate software delivery.
Date: Tuesday, June 5, 2012, 2:00 PM EDT

Whether your B2B complexity is caused by multiple technologies due to M&A, business or application specific needs or traditional under investment, the net effect is usually the same: high cost and lower productivity. Enabling business-to-business (B2B) integration using point-to-point EDI translators is usually time intensive and cost prohibitive.

Join IDC's Maureen Fleming and SAP for an insightful Webcast on the different approaches companies are taking to B2B integration and how you can ask the right questions to reassess you B2B approach.
Date: Wednesday, June 20, 2012, 1:00 PM EDT

Siloed organizations continue doing the wrong things and doing things wrong, leading to increased costs, project delays, lower quality, and time-to-market delays. Providing a collaborative platform where the whole organization can prioritize, share and manage deliveries with more transparency can help the organizations make more informed decisions at all levels, and greatly improve communications and traceability between teams. Hear from application lifecycle management experts how to increase delivery efficiency and effectiveness with a new approach to Delivery Management.
Date/Time: June 5, 2012, 11:00 a.m., EDT, 4:00 p.m. BST / 3:00 p.m. UTC

Please join us for this webcast, as Dr. Barry Devlin, Founder and Principal, 9sight Consulting, describes what operational analytics can do for your business and reviews an architectural approach that will enable you to make it a reality.
With BMC Control-M, you schedule and manage everything - down to the very last platform and application - from one simple interface. It's the foundation of workload automation, really - the ability to run application and business processes as one. Siloed job schedulers can't do it. BMC Control-M can.
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