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Best Practices for Scaling Up SaaS

Guardian Life Insurance isn't about to take big risks when making IT investments, and CIO Frank Wander will be the first to tell you that he doesn't have a cloud computing strategy, per se. Full Story »
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HP Moves Load Testing Software to the Cloud

With the release of its new LoadRunner in the Cloud application load testing solution, HP aims to provide the flexibility of software-as-a-service in tools that traditionally entailed substantial investments to implement.

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Red Hat Launches Storage Appliance for Amazon's Cloud

The open-source company wants enterprises to move their network-attached storage to the cloud

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8 CRM Trends You Need to Watch

Customer relationship management vendors and industry analysts discuss which CRM trends will continue to gain strength and what new trends IT professionals need to watch.

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Alfresco 4.0 Heads for the Cloud

The latest enterprise release of the Alfresco CMS prepares users for content management in the cloud

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Can Facebook Replace Traditional Business Websites?

Integrating your website with social media sites is typically the best approach to online marketing and ecommerce, but are there times when it makes sense to use Facebook instead of a traditional business website?

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Is the Cloud Really Cheaper?

If your company is thinking of saving money by migrating to the cloud, don't forget to look to the long term return, a study suggests.

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For 'Malware As a Service' Merchants, Business is Booming

They are well organized. They pay close attention to product quality, working hard to make it effective and scalable. They are all about customer service, providing after-sales support. They even solicit the help of their customers in product development.

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Microsoft Partner: Office 365 App Dev Model to Change, Expand

Newsgator, which builds enterprise social software for SharePoint, says it will be able to do much more with Office 365's next version

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Microsoft's Revamped System Center Focuses on Managing the Cloud

On Tuesday, Microsoft unveiled the latest version of System Center, which promises to make it easier to manage virtual and cloud environments. Here, Microsoft officials, industry analysts and customers talk about how the new version lets you better manage both private cloud and public cloud services as well virtualization platforms from multiple vendors.

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The Mobile Enterprise: Killing IT's Sacred Cows

CIOs need to break with tradition or risk having IT get outsourced, say modern IT managers. But how do they gain an edge? Don't be a slave to ROI, work with startups, and bring iPads and mobile apps into the enterprise.

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Kundra, First CIO of U.S., Joins Salesforce

Vivek Kundra will be in charge of government and emerging markets for Salesforce

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Microsoft's Exchange a Casualty of Bank's Cloud Move to Google Apps

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya chose Google Apps to boost collaboration among its 110,000 employees globally

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Spanish Bank to Move 100,000+ Employees to Google Apps

This marks the largest deployment of Google Apps to date

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2011: the Year Cloud Computing Shook the Data Center

In a year of surging private cloud activity and major build-outs in public cloud capacity, the cloud's promised simplification remains elusive

 
See how HP Software Licensing & Management Solutions (SLMS) can help you identify the best Microsoft licensing program for your needs, get the most from your licensing agreement, and maximize your Microsoft software investment.
Enabling Data as a Service for Application Delivery, Business Intelligence, and Compliance Reporting. Data growth continues to outpace business growth at many organizations, and this growth is outstripping the ability of conventional tools, techniques, and processes to make effective use of that data. Application Development, Business Intelligence, and Compliance Reporting are three key IT functions impacted by the growth and availability of data. Data as a Service can enhance each of these functions significantly. Download this whitepaper to learn more.
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.
Why the Cloud Is advantageous for Agile, and for accelerating its enterprise-wide adoption.
"Agile Transformation Strategy", written by Angela Druckman, CollabNet Certified Scrum Trainer and Agile Transformational Coach, outlines a sound strategy and transformational "blueprint" to help guide your organization on its path to Agility.
The goal of the 2011 Application and Service Delivery Handbook is to help IT organizations ensure delivery when faced with both the first and second generation of application delivery challenges.
This webinar will cover five tested and proven software development practices that your team should be utilizing right now to accelerate software delivery.
Download this webcast to learn about the design considerations for virtualizing SQL workloads, performance and scalability information and high-availability options, as well as support considerations
Download this webcast to learn the virtual hardware design considerations for Exchange 2010, deployment using the building block approach, options for high-availability and disaster recovery and support considerations.
Virtualizing business-critical applications has become a key focus for organizations as they move along their virtualization journey. With the launch of VMware vSphere® 5, VMware is helping customers accelerate the deployment of business-critical applications, including Exchange, SQL, SAP and Oracle.
Want to say goodbye to missed SLAs? VMware can help you virtualize mission-critical applications such as Oracle, MS Exchange and SharePoint to achieve dramatic improvements in uptime, performance and responsiveness. In this webcast, we'll discuss the key benefits of virtualizing your agency's most critical applications and Oracle databases as a necessary first step in fulfilling OMB's mandate to move IT services to the cloud. With VMware, you'll be on the way to quick, effective and full compliance.
The complexity, cost and technological bloat of traditional Java EE application servers are often barriers to running a lean and efficient IT organization. Increased need for scalability and rapid application delivery are driving businesses to reconsider the platform they use for application deployment. By combining the portability and agility of the Spring framework with a lightweight application server, your organization can meet business demands while staying within budget constraints. VMware vFabric™ tc Server is a modern, lightweight Java application server based on Apache Tomcat. It improves developer productivity, control and manageability-and is the most flexible platform for virtualizing Java applications and workloads for the cloud. View this webcast to learn about real-world examples of companies that have adopted VMware vFabric tc Server and how to plan for future cloud deployments.
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