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Educating IT decision makers

When you tell a user decision maker that thing X will work better for some job than thing Y, are you an educator or an advocate? Think you know? try it with specifics: "Linux is better than Windows for web services." Education or advocacy? that is indeed the question...

Tags: Information Technology, Linux, Professional Development, Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Web Services, Operating Systems, Software, Career, Enterprise Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-11-21

Panel: do cloud computing economic advantages break down in enterprises?

A public cloud provider, private cloud operator, consultant, network provider, and venture capitalist were all put in the same room. Here's what they had to say about cloud's business value. by Joe McKendrick

Tags: Venture Capital, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Networking, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Hardware, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-11-20

YouTube automatic captioning: one more reason GOOG's not evil

Earlier this week I noted that YouTube's partnership with Univision was one more reason to make the web service available in schools. Now, Google has introduced some more useful YouTube technology: automatic captioning. by Christopher Dawson

Tags: Google Inc., YouTube Inc., Business Structures, Cloud Computing, Web Services, Channel Management, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-11-20

Conference energy levels

Coming to Dreamforce has been a revelation. The news was dominated by Chatter but that only tells a fraction of the real story. As I sat in the media room chatting sic to an old buddy it occurred to me this was a conference that annoyed for all...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Event, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Sales Force Management, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-20

How to add value, not just more tech, with Web 2.0+

My presentation to the Florida Council of Independent Schools went well, both from a content and a technical perspective, since I was able to do it remotely, all with Google Apps. Here is the presentations, as well as a few takeaways from the question/answer session. by Christopher Dawson

Tags: Web, Presentation, Cloud Computing, Channel Management, Marketing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-11-19

Delta Sonic Car Wash systems deploys Vyatta

Delta Sonic Car Wash systems deploys Vyatta's network virtualization technology. by Dan Kusnetzky

Tags: Network, Delta Sonic Car Wash Systems Inc., Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-11-19

Practical Approaches for Securing Web Applications across the Software Delivery Lifecycle

Enterprises understand the importance of securing web applications to protect critical corporate and customer data. What many don't understand, is how to implement a robust process for integrating security and risk management throughout the web application software development lifecycle. Securing the web application lifecycle does not...

Tags: Software, Web Application, Cloud Computing

White papers 2009-11-19

Staying a step ahead of the hackers: the importance of identifying critical Web application vulnerabilities.

Security managers worldwide working for midsize or large organizations share a common goal: to better manage the risks associated with their business infrastructure. Web application security plays a significant role in achieving that goal. This session will discuss new and emerging network and application security attacks and ways organizations can...

Tags: Network, Vulnerability, Web Application, Hacker, Application Security, Security Administration, Security, Cloud Computing, Networking

White papers 2009-11-19

Gmail Studio 2.0.0.8 (Mac)

Gmail Studio is the must have Gmail integration for the OSX desktop. Gmail Studio gives you unobtrusiveness desktop access to your Gmail and Gmail for Google Apps accounts. Gmail Studio allows you to check unlimited number of Gmail accounts. You can also view messages right on your desktop, in the...

Tags: Google Gmail, Apple Macintosh, BlueCrestStudios, Gmail Studio, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Internet

Software downloads 2009-11-19

Salesforce demos Service Cloud 2

At Dreamforce Global Gathering 2009 in San Francisco, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Kraig Swensrud, senior vice president of product marketing, show attendees the company's new customer service software, Service Cloud 2. The new tool helps businesses connect their traditional call center technologies with social media applications through a cloud...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Customer Service, Social Media, Product Marketing, Cloud Computing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Force Management, Virtualization, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales, Hardware, Service Cloud 2, Marc Benioff, Salesforce

Videos 2009-11-18

A Tale of Two Software Worlds: Old ERP vs. SaaS

Dreamforce's attendance really puts a strong data point on how attractive SaaS is becoming. Other vendors this week have provided additional data points that point to a troubling time ahead for laggard ERP vendors. by Brian Sommer

Tags: Software-as-a-service, ERP, Dreamforce, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-11-18

Shopping at the second-hand server store

Virtualization or not - you're still spending too much on hardware if you buy it new. Whether you need one server or a pallet load, it's all available at 15-20% of the original price, for equipment that is only 2 - 4 years old, made by your favorite manufacturers. by...

Tags: Pallet, Cloud Computing, Manufacturing, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Paul Milligan

Blog posts 2009-11-18

Ray Ozzie's view from the clouds

In a lengthy interview, Microsoft's Ray Ozzie talked about clouds, lessons Microsoft learned from the recent Sidekick outage as well as why people are wrong to count Microsoft out of the smartphone race. When Ray Ozzie penned his Internet Services Disruption memo back in 2005, he had a...

Tags: Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Microsoft, cloud, Ina Fried CNET News

News items 2009-11-18

Elastra beefs up automation offering for enterprise cloud computing

Elastra Cloud Server helps IT organizations leverage the economics of cloud computing, while preserving existing architectural practices and corporate policies. by Dana Gardner

Tags: Automation, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-11-18

Mailplane 2.1 (Mac)

Acting as a site specific web browser for Google's Gmail, Mailplane is a full fledged Mail client for the Desktop. It fully integrates the Gmail web interface into the Mac experience, offering you the best of both worlds. And since Mailplane doesn't change the way Gmail works, its unique features...

Tags: Google Gmail, Apple Macintosh, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Internet

Software downloads 2009-11-18

Next year is THE year for cloud computing

Not if SunGard is involvedIf the "cloud" runs out of SunGard data centers, I wouldn't rely on it for much...Next year is THE year cloud computing diesNext year might be the year that companies realize cloud computing is a step backward to the dinosaur days of computing. Next year might...

Tags: Virtualization, Manufacturing, cloud computing, year-I

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Next year is THE year for cloud computing

Here is what Indu Kodukula, CTO of SunGard Availability Services thinks how cloud computing is likely to transform the computing industry landscape in 2010. Commentary - Yogi Berra had it right - it?s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. It?s especially difficult...

Tags: CIO, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, cloud, Indu Kodukula

News items 2009-11-17

Live Webcast: Saving 70% with Google Apps over Microsoft Exchange with MattsonTechnology

Matthew Hough, Global Director of IT for Mattson Technology, made the switch from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps for his 500-person company. With offices on 3 continents, Mattson Technology designs,manufactures, and markets the semiconductor wafer processing equipment used to make integrated circuits. Google Apps has changed the way Mattson...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Webcast, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Corp., Cloud Computing

Webcasts 2009-11-17

Live Webcast: Get Control over SaaS Application Access

Software-as-a-Service applications like Google Apps, Salesforce and others offer powerful capabilities at reasonable costs. But relying on web applications can introduce new problems that put your business at risk. Businesses lack visibility into and control over access to applications holding business data. Employees struggle to manage dozens of applications...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Password, Microsoft Access, Webcast, TriCipher, Web Application, Cloud Computing, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies

Webcasts 2009-11-17

HP CEO: The challenges of cloud computing

Security is a big concernThe video is quite relevant. The issue of security in the cloud has grown quite big and the big vendors in this space are currently relying more on myth (see http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/future-of-work/misunderstanding-the-cloud-35315) than fact in order to dance around that. Kudos to HP for calling a spade,...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., cloud computing

Discussion threads 2009-11-16