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Salesforce.com Seeks to Move Chatter Beyond Sales, Marketing
Salesforce.com wants to put Chatter, its new social collaboration platform, into the hands of every corporate user who needs to work with customers or with co-workers to solve problems, provide service or share ideas. Salesforce.com is offering Chatter-only licenses for customers that are already using the Salesforce.com suite so that companies can deploy the collaboration…
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HP Tackles Dedupe With Data Center Blitz
LAS VEGAS — In a bid to reinforce its claim to be the only vendor who can legitimately provide a single-source solution to all of an organization’s data-center needs, HP has announced a flurry of new servers, storage products and its first home-grown data dedupe solution. Unveiled at its Tech Forum 2010 as part of…
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Zoho Integrates Productivity Apps with Google
Productivity, collaboration and business applications provider Zoho Corp. announced its Invoice and Creator Helpdesk solutions are integrated with Google Apps, and are now available in the Google Apps Marketplace. The company noted Creator Helpdesk is also available in the Zoho Marketplace, the company’s online store for business applications. Invoice is free for up to five…
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Verizon Communications Joins Cloud Storage Market
The service will become available in the U.S. and 16 countries beginning in July. It enters the market against a flock of competitors that include Amazon S3, Google’s new Gdrive, Microsoft’s SkyDrive, and a number of others. Verizon Cloud Storage will use a pay-as-you-use scheme that scales on demand and can either augment traditional storage…
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Gartner Says Bad IT Habits Move to the Cloud
SAAS applications are becoming a more substantial part of many companies’ IT infrastructure, according to a new research note by Gartner, but a number of companies are taking their “bad practices” from on-premises software into the cloud with them. However, along with that adoption, a number of companies have started engaging in the same “bad…
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Ingram Micro Partners with Rackspace, VMware Channel Programs
IT distributor Ingram Micro Inc. announced an expansion of its relationship with virtualization software provider VMware relationship. The company is now authorized as a VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP) aggregator, which allows Ingram Micro to offer channel partners in the U.S. and Canada a VMware pay-as-you-go licensing model. Ingram Micro also announced a partnership with…
