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Oracle Exalogic 2.0 adds cloud management feature
Oracle has promoted the “soft” business benefits, but it still needs to formally state the total cost of ownership case for Exalogic to show that the engineered system is better than commodity platforms for the customer’s bottom line.
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Five tips for CIOs moving to the cloud
CIOs making strategic moves to the cloud that involve core infrastructure such as productivity tools, enterprise applications or collaboration capabilities need to be prepared for a new way of thinking and operating.
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Leading a horse to water: Driving out uncertainty in IT cloud projects
Recklessly discounting someone’s concerns or putting off understanding the concerns will increase the risk of having the concern blow up unexpectedly at some point.
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Gartner Hype Cycle: Sales turn CRM to the Cloud for quick relief
Sales VPs for years have been test-driving SaaS-based CRM systems, piloting them with sales teams to see if using them leads to higher sales and greater customer retention. What have they found?
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For VMware and Nicira, software trumps hardware
Although Nicira’s current annual revenues are only in the $10m range, its technology complements VMware’s cloud strategy and will allow the combined entity to attack data networks with a comprehensive software-based cloud solution that is completely hardware-agnostic
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How a SaaS product shook the foundations of its on-premise rival
What's an example of on-premise software being threatened by the emergence of a SaaS upstart operating in the cloud? Answer: Mint vs Quicken.
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Don’t expect big changes from VMware’s new CEO
While the company faces increasing competition, its dominant position in the server virtualization market is not under immediate threat, and its revenue is still growing quickly.
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Cloud Computing: essential to SMEs?
It has been reported this week that 65% of US small to medium sized businesses (SMEs) say that cloud computing is absolutely essential to their organisation and future growth plans
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How do you calculate the ROI on cloud security costs?
What is it they say… you get what you pay for, right? In most cases, that is a spot on assessment but in terms of the cloud-based security, the numbers tend to add up towards the benefit of the user. But let’s get the whole idea of numbers down straight. It’s all relative.
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Why Windows Phone 8 breaks the backwards compatibility tradition
Microsoft had always maintained backwards compatibility with most of their products, but the announcement of the new Windows Phone 8 flies in the face of tradition...
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