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SAP enters the Cloud Platform

Enterprise software company SAP has announced it intends to launch its own Platform-as-a-Service and online applications store. The new cloud-based direction for SAP data management software was announced at SAP’s recent SAP Influencer Summit in Santa Clara,...

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Cloud Computing From the Female Perspective

Women may still be a small fraction of early adopters of new technology, but right now we have a hot topic in Internet technology--cloud computing--that is right up our alley. Its core philosophy is using the Internet to share costly resources such as software and...

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IBM and NATO Collaborate on New Cloud Computing Project

Big Blue is going to show the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) how best to migrate wildly disparate computer systems to cloud computing, and the plan is for NATO to, in turn, take that information and promote more data sharing and cost efficiency among its 28...

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Effective data management ‘important in the cloud’

Companies that are planning to start using cloud computing services must make sure they can still conduct effective data management processes after the switch has taken place. In an article jointly written by Sheng Liang, Chief Executive Office of Cloud.com and Peder...

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Facebook Could Hoist the Enterprise to the Cloud

Cloud vendors are working furiously to beef up the security around their offerings in the hope of allaying potential customers' fears. That's a sound move on the vendors' part, but I predict that as we get further into the Facebook and social networking age, the fear...

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Ariba Redefines Enterprise Software

Enterprise software is dead. At least enterprise software as it is traditionally known. In today's business world, it's all about being connected, efficient and informed. And Ariba, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARBA), the leading provider of collaborative business commerce...

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Amazon EC2 Ramps Up Cloud Offerings With Oracle Apps

Amazon has brought a fleet of major PeopleSoft and JD Edward applications to its Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) service, following a promise in September to do so. The new services are certified by Oracle. EC2 allows users to rent Amazon's computers on an hourly...

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Private clouds – The challenges en route

Public clouds grabbed most of the attention when the concept of cloud computing was first introduced. But it soon shifted to private clouds when IT managers analyzed the security risks of having data outside the corporate firewall. Analysts and various surveys suggest...

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Cloud Security: The Journey Is the Reward

Perhaps your company is among the many organizations that either has or will soon attempt a migration to some kind of cloud-based technology infrastructure. While this can mean a lot of work for an IT team, but it can also be an opportunity to reassess and reconfigure...

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