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Google Brings User Managed Storage to Apps Customers
Taking a page out of the books of Web-based storage providers, Google March 1 began offering User Managed Storage to meet Google Apps customers’ requirements for additional space for their content in the cloud. Google Apps is the search engine’s suite of e-mail, document, presentation, spreadsheet and other apps, all residing on servers in Google’s…
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Home-Based Businesses Grew in 2010: AMI Report
There was an 11 percent increase in those who started their home-based business due to downsizing last year in the United States last year, according to a report from AMI Partners. The report noted last year sole proprietorships made up two-thirds of the home-based business market, this year it is only one-third of the total…
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Salesforce.com Incorporates Twitter, Facebook in Service Cloud 3
NEW YORK—Salesforce.com unveiled its Service Cloud 3 platform March 3, coupling the announcement to a high-profile event at New York City’s Javits Center headlined by CEO Marc Benioff. The third iteration of Salesforce’s cloud-based customer service platform lets businesses analyze and respond to customer feedback filtering from social networks such as Twitter and Facebook. The…
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Cisco Partner Summit Report: Big Private Cloud Growth Ahead
NEW ORLEANS — Cisco told channel partners gathered here this week for the Cisco Partner Summit that it’s not looking to become a cloud provider itself. Rather, Cisco executives said, the company wants to enable channel partners to build cloud architecture and develop cloud services to sell to customers using Cisco gear. To help, Cisco…
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Siemens Launches Cloud-Based UC Solutions for SMB, Enterprise
Siemens Enterprise Communications launched new cloud-based unified communications solutions for both enterprise and SMB customers, as well as a wireless cloud communications solution from Siemens subsidiary Enterasys Networks. “We’re entering into the cloud market with products and offers we believe will be attractive to our channel partners,” Mark Straton, senior vice president, global solutions marketing…
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Verizon Unveils Cloud-Based Unified Communications Platform
Communications giant Verizon announced the rollout of cloud-based commercial Unified Communications & Collaboration-as-a-Service (UC&C) offerings, with capabilities including seamless call transfers from fixed to mobile phones and the use of “presence” technology, such as instant messaging, to initiate audio, Web and intra-company video conference calls both in and out of the office. The offerings, available…