The Cloud apps
Salesforce.com makes more friends in the cloud
News The IT service desk software maker is planning to bring its Service Desk Express product to the Force.com platform so businesses can operate their IT support in the... [20 Nov 2009]
Salesforce.com plans social networking for business
News Speaking at Salesforce.com's Dreamforce user conference in San Francisco, CEO Marc Benioff said Chatter was the company's "fourth cloud" - joining its Sales Cloud, Service... [19 Nov 2009]
Telegraph CIO on the rocky road to going Google
News The company's CIO Paul Cheesbrough knows all about the challenges of moving to the cloud, after recently migrating 2,000 staff from Microsoft Outlook and Exchange to... [04 Nov 2009]
How Google Apps helped Jaguar Land Rover keep motoring after Ford sale
News JLR's move to Google Apps is the company's first step towards simplifying the IT infrastructure it runs in-house and farming out more of its IT services to outsourcers and... [26 Oct 2009]
Will 'citizen developers' shake up IT development?
News Now step forward the 'citizen developer' - an individual set to play an increasingly important role in creating business apps, according to analyst house Gartner. Gartner defines a citizen developer as a... [23 Oct 2009]
The top 10 technologies you need to plan for next year
News Cloud computing A technology which also made Gartner's list for 2009, the advent of cloud computing could help cut costs and will also see enterprise IT departments acting as... [22 Oct 2009]
Google unleashes biggest ever Apps rollout for 35,000 users
News Business support services company Rentokil Initial has signed up for the biggest enterprise deployment of Google Apps to date. The implementation of Google Apps Premier... [12 Oct 2009]
How a tech 'watch list' can save CIOs from being caught out
News Other technologies judged by Forrester to be increasingly important over the next few years include policy-based SOA, mobile apps and business processes, cloud-based platforms, web... [12 Oct 2009]
Virtualizing Tier 1 Apps on VMware vSphere 4: Exchange, SQL, Oracle, SAP
White Paper Infrastructure teams can accelerate the adoption of virtualization by demonstrating the value of the VMware vSphere internal cloud for these applications. Unfortunately,... [02 Oct 2009]
Vivek Kundra
AS Profile To this end the administration has begun building a cloud infrastructure for IT services with the launch of the new Apps.gov site, which is a clearing... [30 Sep 2009]
Eric Schmidt
AS Profile Of the reasons why Schmidt merited fourth spot on the Agenda Setters list, one panellist said Google "is the cloud" and its move to corporate apps is... [29 Sep 2009]
Open source API to aid cloud-hopping businesses
News IBM and Microsoft have pledged support for the creation of an open source API that aims to simplify the process of switching cloud providers for organisations. The... [24 Sep 2009]
White House looks to the cloud for IT cost-cutting
News As a result, the first major element of the initiative is the brand new Apps.gov site, a clearing house for business, social media, and productivity applications, as... [17 Sep 2009]
Live Webcast: Save Money With Cloud Computing and Google Apps
White Paper Join this Webcast to learn why moving to the cloud and Google Apps yields many benefits, such as: Google Apps offers simple, powerful communication and collaboration... [17 Sep 2009]
Google Apps: Five million students getting a cloud education
News In the UK, educational institutions using Apps include Leeds Metropolitan University, Kingston College, and the School of Oriental and African Studies, which recently estimated it has... [09 Sep 2009]