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Coming to an Enterprise Near You: Consumer PCs
One of the changes that analysts and other observers are talking about as potentially a major trend for the next several years is the “consumerization of IT,” or end users buying their own technology and using it for work—laptops, smartphones, netbooks. A recent Gartner survey of enterprises showed that 10 percent of respondents said that…
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Rackspace Revamps Channel Program
Rackspace, one of the leaders in hosted services and cloud computing, is restructuring its channel programs to attract more partners and provide existing resellers with incentives for selling its hosted services. "We regard partners as an extension of the Rackspace family and have updated the Rackspace Partner Network to help ensure they receive the services…
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Fujitsu Unveils New Cloud Services for ISVs and Enterprises
Fujitsu today unveiled plans to make new software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions available in Q1 2010 to enterprises and independent software vendors (ISVs). The company says today’s announcement is the first of what it says is several upcoming cloud-focused initiatives that will comprise its end-to-end cloud product and market strategies. Here’s what Fujitsu is doing and why…
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Bing Goes Down for 45 Minutes
Microsoft’s Bing search engine went down Thursday evening for 30 to 45 minutes for reasons still unknown. Service was around 11:45 p.m. Pacific time. When users went to use the Bing search site or toolbar embedded in their browser, they only received an error message. The incident sparked a surge in Twitter activity by users…
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The Cloud SMB Force or Distraction
The cloud is all the rage, or at least that’s what the IT industry wants us to believe. For certain, the cloud is making a difference, but just how that will impact small and medium businesses over the long term remains to be seen. We’ve been here before. Remember Application Service Providers (ASP’s) back in…
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Business Opportunities and Threats in the Technology Cloud
Cloud computing threatens to disrupt many of the business models around the IT industry as traditional desktops and client computing are transformed into something different. But don’t expect big enterprises to make the move right away. That’s because it’s harder for big companies with their investments in legacy IT to make a quick switch to…