Cloud Computing

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    Microsoft Cloud Services Get Service Updates, New Customers

    Technology giant Microsoft announced the first major service update for Microsoft Office 365, the company’s  cloud productivity service for businesses of all sizes. The service will also be available to try in 22 additional markets today, including Argentina, Iceland, Indonesia, South Africa and Taiwan. Microsoft is making more than 30 new updates to Office 365…

    Nathan Eddy

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    Salesforce.com’s Benioff Bashes Oracle, Microsoft, Again

    NEW YORK — If there was a theme for Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) CEO Marc Benioff’s question and answer session at Cloudforce here Nov. 30, it was how to run an enterprise software business that is vastly different from the world Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) dominated. Noting that Oracle appears to simply want to sell database…

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Salesforce.com Introduces Social Marketing Cloud

    Salesforce.com (NASDAQ:CRM) Nov. 30 introduced its Social Marketing Cloud, an effort to get ahead of the rest of the market by using social media to market and sell products to customers. The Social Marketing Cloud leverages and builds on assets from Radian6, a social media monitoring company Salesforce.com picked up earlier this year. As the…

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Cloud Computing Traffic to ‘Explode’ by 2015: Cisco

    In its inaugural Global Cloud Index (2010 2015), Cisco estimated global cloud computing traffic will grow 12-fold from 130 exabytes to reach a total of 1.6 zettabytes annually by 2015, a 66 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR). One zettabyte is equal to a sextillion bytes or a trillion gigabytes. To put that in perspective,…

    Channel Insider Staff

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    HP Launches Cloud Architect, Integrator Certifications

    Hewlett Packard is looking to help IT professionals designing and building cloud infrastructure with the introduction of new cloud certifications for integrators and systems architects who build cloud infrastructure and tailor it to meet business needs. The certifications build on HP’s ExpertONE Converged Infrastructure certification program announced a year ago. The HP Accredited Solutions Expert…

    Chris Talbot

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    Cyber-crime Victims Often Provide Access Unwittingly: Report

    In a unique collaboration, an engineer and a criminologist at the University of Maryland, College Park, are applying criminological concepts and research methods in the study of cyber-crime, leading to recommendations for IT managers to use in the prevention of cyber-attacks on their networks. In one study that focused on the victims of cyber-attacks, the…

    Nathan Eddy

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