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Cloud floats among India's large firms
News Large enterprises in India are opting for cloud computing, choosing hybrid and private clouds to resolve concerns over data security and regulatory compliance.
Tags: Cloud computing, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Data security, Cloud, Security, India, Regulatory Compliance, Small And Medium Business, Cloud computing, Software-as-a-service (SaaS)
How Microsoft plans to make its mark in CRM
Insight newsmaker The software giant is well placed to take the lead in the CRM arena with its on-demand and packaged software, not to mention a US$1 billion annual infrastructure budget, says exec Brad Wilson.
Tags: Customer resource management (CRM), Strategy, Utility computing, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Microsoft Corp., CRM, e-Service, On-demand, Sales, Server Price
Get IT Done: Evaluate data centers as part of a disaster planning and recovery strategy
Insight It's imperative that a CIO at a company with mission critical data systems knows how to evaluate collocation providers.
Emergency response the weakest link in organizational resilience
Blogs I think of organizational resilience as a chain that links security, emergency management (EM), disaster recovery, busin...
Making the case for dynamic languages
Techguide Justin James presents reasons why developers should consider using dynamic languages. He also discusses how these languages trip up some developers.
Tags: Programming languages, Software engineering/development, Ruby, Language, C, Developer, C#, C++, Justin James, API
AltaVista files for $300 million IPO
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NetApp refreshes data center OS for the cloud
News Storage firm combines its Data Ontap 7 enterprise platform and Data Ontap GX clustered computing platform into single codebase tailored to cloud deployments.
Tags: Protocols and platforms, Supercomputing, Cloud computing, Storage, Cloud computing, high-performance computing, 64-bit, high-performance, data management, disk
Can companies bend it when needed?
Blogs Don't use the family restroom unless you're nursing or attending to your child. Those were the instructions an office...
How Yahoo is betting its cloud will pay off
News With Yahoo counting on cloud computing to accelerate development, a behind-the-scenes IT guy like Shelton Shugar moves into the spotlight.
Tags: Cloud computing, Yahoo! Inc., Virtualization, software, Open-source Software, Apache Hadoop, Cloud computing, Server, corporate computing, Internet
Microsoft testing next Exchange
News The new version, code-named E14, is being further tweaked to run as a hosted service, as well as a server.
Tags: E-mail clients, E-mail servers, Microsoft Corp., IBM Lotus Notes, Web client, Microsoft Outlook Web Access, e-mail, software, public beta, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
If Sun builds it, will you come?
Insight comment Is Sun's pricing for its compute grid--apparently twice the price of IBM's--the best pricing you can get in this early phase of utility computing?
Tags: Utility computing
CRM: The enterprise is dead, long live the SME
Insight Customer relationship management (CRM) used to be an industry pariah but now it's turning into the software market to watch--and the SME market is its next frontier.
Tags: Customer resource management (CRM)
Benioff takes stock of software shifts
Insight The Salesforce.com CEO weighs in on cloud computing, an uneasy economy, and why Microsoft is still a dinosaur.
Tags: Software
Don't broadcast your SSID...
Insight ...and 9 other security dos and don'ts when setting up a wireless LAN.
Government CIOs should look up to cloud
News Tech heads in public sector can gain insights from cloud computing providers on designing next-generation government IT infrastructures, urges analyst.
Tags: Cloud computing, Business models, Network administration/implementation, On-demand, Australia, Government, Cloud computing, CIO, public sector, financial
