Recent Articles
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SAP Enterprises Get ERP Hosting in the Cloud
Businesses that have come to rely on enterprise applications from vendors such as Oracle and SAP may believe that the complexity of their systems will prevent them from ever taking advantage of the benefits outsourcing those systems to the cloud. And customers are gravitating towards the cloud, both for the nimbleness it offers them, the…
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Tech Giants in Acquisition Frenzy
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Technology firms are kicking off a new wave of mergers and acquisitions as cash-rich makers of hardware, software and everything in between position themselves for economic recovery and reach into new markets. The movement toward mobile computing, the increasing importance of data storage, and the use of the Internet to access…
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Citrix Partners with HP, Dell, McAfee, Wyse, More to Help VARs
Citrix is taking this advice to heart: it’s better to show than it is to tell. The Citrix Virtual Computing Demo Center was one of several announcements by Citrix and its vendor partners at the event the week of May 10, 2010. The demo center lets channel partners prepare for a demo and provision a…
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Microsoft Office 2010 takes Word, Excel and PowerPoint to Cloud
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp launched an updated version of its Office software on Wednesday, aiming to keep its grip on the hugely profitable business application market while countering the challenge of free online alternatives from Google Inc. The world’s largest software company is upgrading its popular Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint applications and rolling out…
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Verizon Plans Cloud Security Offering
Verizon Business outlined its strategy for pushing its security portfolio into the cloud. The announcement is meant to complement the company’s on-premise MSS (managed security service) offerings, and will be rolled out in phases between June and early next year. “Secure connectivity is the natural entrée into higher-end services of the everything-as-a-service model…CAAS, cloud-based storage…
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Citrix Taps VARs, Microsoft to Beat VMware in Desktop Virtualization Market
SAN FRANCISCO: Citrix is looking to leverage its VARs and its relationship with Microsoft to cash in on one of the hottest emerging IT segments – desktop virtualization. It’s a space that many VARs and CIOs are looking to as a potential money-saver as they look to reduce their administrative and management overhead at the…