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Thursday, January 23, 2014

Why VMware spent $1.54 billion on AirWatch

What Dropbox must do to justify its $10 billion valuation | Microsoft hasn't given consumers much reason to renew Office 365

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BY IDG ENTERPRISE
January 23, 2014
InCITE Your twice weekly digest of the most important developments in the consumerization of IT

Why VMware spent $1.54 billion on AirWatch

VMware sent shock waves through the enterprise mobile management when it announced it was purchasing AirWatch for $1.54 billion last night. Here's why they did it.

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3 Pillars of Success for Offshore Application Development

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What Dropbox must do to justify its $10 billion valuation

While Dropbox has done well to carve out a niche for itself among its core consumer base, it has a long way to go before it's ready to take over the enterprise and justify its price tag.

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Microsoft hasn't given consumers much reason to renew Office 365

In just a few days, Microsoft will hit an important milestone – the one year anniversary of the launch of Office 365 Home Premium. For people who still have Office 2010, it doesn't make sense to renew their Office 365 subscription.

How to use Chrome to cut your mobile data consumption

Tame the data firehose with Chrome for Mobile's new data reduction feature.

LogMeIn shows the danger of using the free tier -- it might disappear

LogMeIn is killing off the free tier of its service. The move should serve as a reminder that you get what you pay for.

Why this in-home nursing company switched to Google Apps and Chromebooks

Pediatric Home Service moved 160 in-home nurses to Google Apps and deployed Google Chromebooks in patient's homes to replace Windows laptops. The nurses love the Chromebooks for their long battery life, light weight, and ease of use.

Data visualization may not be so easy after all -- Chartio adds services business

The new breed of cloud based data visualization companies tout ease of use as one advantage over traditional bloated business intelligence products. But that doesn't mean that anyone can easily get started with the new tools. Which is why Chartio is rolling out a services business to help users that need it.

To get data to work for you, package it to answer the most important questions

Every business could learn lessons from a data business that has broken down its data sets into logical packages with sets of questions designed to help each line of business get the answers they need.

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