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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

More IT leaders turn to SaaS ERP

SaaS ERP is making the grade at Brown University | Microsoft to co-develop cloud products with Chinese OS firm

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Cloud computing: More IT leaders turn to SaaS ERP
In 2006, Epec Engineered Technologies found itself in a situation familiar to many in corporate IT. With a series of business acquisitions behind it, the New Bedford, Mass.-based manufacturer of printed circuit boards, battery packs and other electronic components needed to replace multiple ERP systems with a single platform capable of supporting the entire organization. Read More


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Akamai Cloud Optimization for Amazon EC2™
The emergence of public cloud platforms and services has IT organizations thinking about which applications they want to keep in-house and which they can build within the cloud. Read more

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Akamai Cloud Optimization for Amazon EC2™
The emergence of public cloud platforms and services has IT organizations thinking about which applications they want to keep in-house and which they can build within the cloud. Read more

SaaS ERP is making the grade at Brown University
When powerful ERP applications are needed by growing businesses today, SaaS ERP is being looked at more and more as a viable option to traditional complex, expensive and labor-intensive packaged ERP suites. And while SaaS ERP is still young, in the right setting and with the right users, it's offering some eye-opening real world gains for a variety of organizations. Read More

Microsoft to co-develop cloud products with Chinese OS firm
Microsoft said on Tuesday it will work with a Chinese operating system developer to create cloud computing products for the country's market, a move that could help the U.S. company sell to China's government agencies. Read More

Cloud growth prompts shift in enterprise security strategies
What a different global economy this would be if it were only a little bit more like the cloud. As the financial markets go through their bipolar mood swings with every wrenching headline, the market for cloud services has marched steadily upward and onward, seemingly unfazed by the concerns of the non-virtual world. Read More


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Why IT Leaders Aren't Scared of Cloud Security
Examine this CIO report in which your peers offer advice on cloud services and data protection. Learn 3 key tips for taking the right approach to securing a hybrid cloud infrastructure to dispel any data doubts. Read now!

The race to cloud standards gets crowded
The rise of cloud computing has led to a strong push from IT leaders at many major companies to develop standards that address issues such as security and data portability in the cloud. Read More

AT&T expands its mobile app services
AT&T has expanded its mobile application services for businesses, offering up a fully-managed service for building apps on various mobile platforms and storage of the apps in AT&T's cloud. Read More

How the cloud can solve security problems
Ask five different people a question about, say, cloud security, and you'll likely get five different points of view. Read More


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Fine-Tune Your IT Performance
Learn how to bridge the gap between application performance management solutions that don't understand the underlying network and network management products that don't know how to map network traffic to applications. Learn more!

Google provides weather forecast on Maps
Google is providing current weather information and cloud data from around the world on its Google Maps application, by an arrangement with The Weather Channel's weather.com and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. Read More

Identity security in the cloud
There were a couple of announcements made at last month's Catalyst conference that I meant to draw to your attention but other things got in the way. Both are relevant to enterprise cloud-based computing so I'll talk about both today. Read More

First look: VMware vSphere 5 looms large
Automated host deployment, revamped HA, large-scale VM support, and storage automation features rev up vSphere for big shops. Read More

Perch, a great lightweight CMS
Content Management Systems (CMS) for mission critical Web properties are a big issue. Choose the right one and, all other things being equal, your Web site will be organized and manageable. Choose the wrong one and you'll be the proud owner of a house of cards that is going to suck away your time, money, and market credibility. It is for these reasons that organizations got to great lengths to evaluate and select CMSs. Read More



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