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Early Adopters

Successful Companies Embrace Shadow IT

Businesses move quickly, and those that make missteps along the way or fail to adapt to the times rarely go unscathed. Consider the fate of the original 12 companies listed in the Dow. While General Electric is still an independent company, most of the others have been acquired by larger companies or have vanished altogether. Full Story »
Early Adopters

The Benefits of Cloud-based BPM

In 2011 Gartner's Jim Sinur predicted that business process management and the cloud would be the "real thunder." He stated that moving operations to the cloud would free up money and efforts for businesses, and those organizations would be remiss to ignore BPM.

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How VMware Will Try to Shake Up the Cloud Market This Week

There have been rumors and speculation. There have been whispers and rumblings. But this week VMware is expected to release details about its plans to launch a public cloud offering, the central part of its new hybrid cloud strategy.

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Yahoo on Tumblr: We won't 'screw it up'

Yahoo will now have to figure out how to grow Tumblr revenue without alienating its user base

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Google's Next Act: Diversify and Conquer

Center stage at this year's Google I/O was a company honing its vision for a future beyond search.

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IT's New Concern: The Personal Cloud

As personal and professional clouds converge, IT's mission to improve productivity while protecting corporate apps and data is getting tougher.

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The 4 Best Things About the Google+ Redesign

Google announced a complete overhaul of its social network, Google+, at this week's I/O conference in San Francisco. Here's an in-depth look at all the changes and why they make Google+ better.

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Former Amazon Cloud Engineer Spills to Reddit Audience

Usually Amazon Web Services, which many consider to be the leader in the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud computing market, is pretty hush-hush about the internal workings of its massive cloud.

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Newvem Expands to Monitor Azure and Amazon Clouds

Newvem, which sells a tool that allows users to track and optimize their use of cloud computing resources, has expanded its software's functionality to monitor not just Amazon Web Services, but now Microsoft Azure now as well.

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Tech Titans Talk: The IDG Enterprise Interview Series

In the IDG Enterprise Interview Series, you'll hear from technology CIOs and CEOs on today's burgeoning trends, ongoing headaches and upcoming product plans. Check out this informative series from IDG Enterprise Chief Content Officer John Gallant and his team of editors.

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ServiceNow Wants to be the Cloud for IT

Many enterprise IT shops may be reluctant to jump head first into cloud computing. After all, there are a variety of concerns that come with using the cloud, from security to integrations with existing systems, and perhaps most scary: What the cloud will mean for your IT job.

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SAP Builds Out HANA Platform and Ecosystem

SAP is shipping a raft of new features for the in-memory platform and letting partners in on its HANA Enterprise Cloud

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SAP CEO Shuns Forrester's Criticisms That HANA Cloud is Half-baked Business Model

SAP's co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe has responded to analyst Forrester's criticisms following the launch of HANA enterprise cloud, claiming that it is a logical business model because customers want to control their core systems.

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How to Keep the Feds From Snooping on Your Cloud Data

Virtual padlocks can keep storage providers -- and the government -- from accessing data in the cloud

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SunGard Brings Cloud Service to Disaster Recovery

Can the old guard in business continuity and disaster-recovery services thrive in an era when the companies are looking at new ways to process business data? SunGard Data Systems, with decades of experience in availability services, is feeling the pinch as some business clientele move data to the cloud. But SunGard says it's pushing forward with innovations that are making it a public cloud provider as well with the kind of application availability it says will be hard to match elsewhere.