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	Nonprofit treats Microsoft Outlook frustration with Google Apps For many organizations, the choice between Microsoft Office and Google Apps involves myriad considerations, including costs, software quality, customer support, and the leap of faith required to entrust your data to a Web-based service. But for Joe Moran, head of IT at the nonprofit Quality Services for the Autism Community in New York, the impetus for moving from Microsoft to Google was relatively straightforward. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cloud Leadership Forum Cloud Leadership Forum: June 20 in Silicon Valley Come to the Cloud Leadership Forum 2011 for best-practice approaches to cloud migration, management, governance and more. The enterprise-focused agenda is based upon IDC research and peer-based insights. Learn from case study presentations, interactive sessions and leading cloud providers. Complimentary admission. Learn more. 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Will you use public cloud resources as well? Learn more about how to plan a cloud effectively – from defining requirements to identifying the costs - in this compelling white paper from BMC Software. Read More Today Father of China's 'Great Firewall' target of tossed shoe Whether the target is an American president visiting Iraq or a notorious mastermind of Internet censorship in China, there is a temptation for some to find amusing the political protest act of tossing a shoe. Read More Top 15 Android Apps For Smartphone Shutterbugs Use these Android apps to add effects to your mobile photos and make them easier to take. Read More About a month later and Sony's PlayStation Network still isn't fully restored It will be a month tomorrow since Sony's PlayStation Network was fully operational, and the popular gaming site is still beset by troubles. Read More Exchange Online having downtime problems again Exchange Online, the hosted version of Microsoft's e-mail system, ran into technical problems again on Thursday, the latest in a series of downtime and performance hiccups. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Distributed Virtualization Management from Big Iron Many enterprises started virtualization efforts to reap the benefits of consolidating their distributed infrastructure. This consolidation, however, has not ended datacenter infrastructure heterogeneity since enterprises seem intent on acquiring different virtualization platforms as well as heterogeneous hardware platforms. Read Now How to transform your data center for cloud computing: an expert guide Learn how to prepare your data center for the transformation to cloud computing. Read More Daily innovation smackdown: Marc Andreessen vs. Matthew Szulik Andreessen co-founded Netscape with Jim Clark in 1994 to market Andreessen's creation, the Netscape web browser. Szulik became CEO of Red Hat in 1999, shortly after the company went public. He was relieved of his CEO duties in 2007. Read More Verizon CFO says next-gen iPhone will be "worldmode" device; will launch at same time as AT&T A new report from Reuters relays a quote from Verizon CFO Fran Shammo which intimates, yet again, that the next-gen iPhone will be a "worldmode" phone with a dual mode GSM/CDMA chip. Specifically, Shammo said the next iteration of the iPhone will "work in as many countries as AT&T's iPhone." Hint hint. Read More Symantec to acquire Clearwell for e-discovery Symantec today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire privately held Clearwell Systems for about $390 million, a move that will put Symantec in the e-discovery market. Read More WHITE PAPER: Netezza, an IBM Company The Netezza Data Appliance Architecture Success in any enterprise depends on having the best available information in time to make sound decisions. Read now Northrop to pay $4.8M for Virginia government network outage Northrop Grumman today said it will pay almost $5 million to cover the costs of network outages that slammed 26 Virginia agencies in August 2010. Read More Big vendors look to challenge VMware with open source Several big IT vendors, including IBM, HP, BMC Software, Intel and Red Hat, are banding together to promote an open source virtualization platform as an alternative to VMware. Read More Google plans expanded 24/7 phone support … but not just yet Google will ramp up support for enterprise customers, but details on timing are scarce. Read More Microsoft blasts Intel's talk of Windows 8 as misleading, inaccurate Microsoft today called comments made by an Intel executive about the next version of Windows "inaccurate" and "misleading." Read More VMware seeks security 'manager of managers' role for vShield With the popularity of its virtual-machine software soaring, VMware has been focusing on optimizing security for its vSphere platform both through cooperation with third-party security vendors and encouraging a shift to its own software-based security architecture known as vShield. Read More
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