Written by: Michele Walsh Is their anything Facebook can't do? Most people think of Facebook as solely a social media tool - used to connect with friends and family. However, with it’s 750 million plus users, Facebook has become a launching pad for a sea of new apps...
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Jul 19, 2011
One of the topics most associated with cloud computing is its cost advantages, or lack thereof. One way the topic gets discussed is "capex vs. opex," a simple formulation, but one fraught with meaning. At its simplest, capex vs. opex is how compute resource is paid...
Jul 14, 2011
Diving into cloud computing may not be as big a leap for your company as you might think. In fact, an important shortcut to such a move could already be sitting there in your data centers, waiting on standby to make the process easier. "Virtualization is a stepladder...
Jun 22, 2011
SOURCE:Â InformationWeek IBM has spent $14 billion in just the last five years acquiring analytics and optimization software companies that are vital to its Smarter Planet initiative. It has also talked up the growth and importance of cloud computing. However, where...
Jun 15, 2011
Keeping valuable customers happy is the key to any good business plan. Creating satisfied customers is a challenge in any environment, however, and requires a focused approach to customer relationships. Soffront Software recently examined this topic, focusing on the...
Jun 13, 2011
Enterprise-level business and IT executives and decision-makers may now have a greater understanding of the benefits of private and hybrid cloud computing environments, but a new study has found that there is still a large gap between expectations and the reality of...
May 19, 2011
SOURCE:Â Hospital Impact One of the major goals of health reform and accountable care is to reduce hospital readmissions--and mobile apps have the potential to make this happen. Is this an overstatement? I don't think so. Mobile apps give people the tools to work with...
May 13, 2011
The ideal storage solution for bio-research must deliver capacity, speed, manageability, scalability, and security. Scale-out storage from Isilon does just that. Download this white paper and learn how Isilon scale-out storage solutions increase the productivity of...
May 13, 2011
One of the major purposes of the federal program for the meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs) is to produce improved clinical outcomes for patients. Providing patients access to their personal health information and having that information available to...
Apr 22, 2011
It's unlikely that hordes of VMware, Citrix or Microsoft Hyper-V users will flock to open-source virtualization or cloud-computing platform as an alternative to the hypervisors and virtualized infrastructure-management software they've already chosen, analysts say. So...
