The Cloud
RSS The CloudSalesforce.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]
How to squeeze the last drops of savings from an outsourcing contract
News RMG is also embracing cloud computing, switching to Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite to provide hosted email, calendar, collaboration and meeting services. How does a business pay less for its IT services... [20 Nov 2009]
Photos: Qualcomm's Snapdragon-powered Android smartbook on show
Photo Both, according to Gilbert: "If you start to think about cloud computing, you marry that with an app store in a large form factor you've actually got a great utility device, as well as a great consumer device," he said. [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]
Outsourcers to fall victim to cloud computing rush?
News Could some of the big names in outsourcing be among the victims of the much-hyped shift to cloud computing? As businesses begin to host their IT systems in... [19 Nov 2009]
Salesforce to launch social networking for businesses
Salesforce.com is a high-profile proponent of the idea of web-based services, broadly called cloud computing. Salesforce.com on Wednesday announced a social-networking service called Salesforce Chatter... [19 Nov 2009]
Naked CIO: Cloud computing more expensive than we thought?
Comment With the advent and popularity of cloud computing, software as a service such as Salesforce.com applications, managed datacentres and other services with ongoing costs, the impact to... [19 Nov 2009]
Clouds clear as Microsoft gives Azure a January launch date
News Microsoft's cloud-based computing platform Azure has been given an official launch date. Azure will be made commercially available from 1 January, Microsoft's chief software architect, Ray Ozzie, announced yesterday at... [18 Nov 2009]
Unified comms: What it needs to succeed
Comment There's a whole spectrum of approaches from onsite to cloud-based solutions. Unified comms holds plenty of promise but businesses hoping to use it must first consider why uptake has been so slow, says Jim Mortleman. [17 Nov 2009]
Webinar: Securing the Cloud Dec 10th, 2pm ET / 11am PT
White Paper Cloud computing promises to provide vast computing power, reliable off-site data storage, wide availability, all at lower maintenance and investment costs. But recent cloud computing mishaps have... [16 Nov 2009]
Accelerate Your Cloud Implementation with IBM CloudBurst and Intel Xeon Processors
White Paper Do you need to determine where to start your cloud deployment and provide immediate ROI? IBM CloudBurst(tm) is a pre-integrated solution that allows you to rapidly create and manage your private (internal)... [16 Nov 2009]
Business Productivity Online Suite - Highly Secure and Reliable Cloud Services
White Paper Learn about fully hosted productivity tools in the cloud with Microsoft® Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS). With real time communication and collaboration tools, including, instant messaging,... [16 Nov 2009]
Cloud Computing: Save Time, Money, and Resources
White Paper This IBM® Redbook® explains how a private test cloud can help you organize and streamline your test environment, allowing for a quick turnaround of resource requests—lowering overall costs. Testing your applications... [16 Nov 2009]
Law Firm Cuts IT Costs by 90 Percent, Dismisses Server Worries with Online Services
White Paper By moving messaging and collaboration software and data to the Internet "cloud," Nolan cut IT costs by 90 percent. James C. Nolan Law Office specializes in immigration law. Owner James Nolan uses... [16 Nov 2009]
Clear Skies Ahead: Cloud Computing and In-the-Cloud Security
White Paper The difference between cloud computing and in-the-cloud security should be clear. It will be a couple of years before cloud computing really takes off... [13 Nov 2009]
