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  • Handling Deadbeat Cloud Computing Customers

    Over dinner last night in Manhattan, my friend Christian Renaud recounted a horror story in mobility: his iPhone service was shut off while he was traveling in Spain and Portugal. The reason wasn’t because he didn’t pay his bill, but rather he had exceeded his data limit – not once, but twice. Renaud is the…

  • Google Chrome: The Official Start of the Cloud Era

     Google is getting a ho-hum reaction from the IT world following last week’s release of the Chrome OS, its attempt at an operating system designed for cloud-based applications and contender to the Microsoft desktop crown. Critics and skeptics, however, have labeled Chrome with such tarnishing descriptors as dull, uninspired, lackluster and ne’er-do-well. Microsoft has issued…

  • Google Chrome OS to Boot PC Within 7 Seconds

    (Reuters) – New Google Inc software will start up a computer as fast as a television can be turned on, the search company said on Thursday as it showed off its Chrome operating system designed for PCs that do their work on the Web Google gave the first public look at its Chrome OS four…

  • SugarCRM`s Windows Azure Move Plays to VARs

    SugarCRM has announced that it will offer its CRM applications on Windows Azure to enable its customers and value-added resellers (VARs) to benefit from the real-time scalability, high availability and on-demand infrastructure of the Microsoft cloud platform for web applications and services. SugarCRM announced its plans at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2009 in…

  • Lenovo Takes Its Secure Managed Client to Channel

    A year after introducing an enterprise-oriented storage-based, desktop computing solution that was available only direct, Lenovo is announcing an enhanced version that will be available in February 2010 and will be sold through the channel. Eventually it will be available as a managed service offering for SMBs, says Goran Wibrand, director for secure client management.…

  • ParaScale Upgrades Cloud Storage Software for VARs

    Cloud buzz abounds—storage software vendor ParaScale today released version 2.0 of its private cloud storage solution designed for VARs and service provider distribution. The solution aims to take advantage o f the growing need for easy-to-manage storage solutions while data amounts continue to expand. The ParaScale Cloud Storage software product provides distributed performance of cloud…

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