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RSS cloud appsSalesforce.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 cloud. Speaking on stage at Dreamforce, CA CEO John... [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 Cloud and... [19 Nov 2009]
Cloud Computing - What is its Potential Value for Your Company?
White Paper Cloud computing may be new, but one thing hasn't changed: management's insistence on justifying IT investments by return on investment and total cost of ownership. This paper reviews four organizations who gained... [09 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 Google Apps Premier Edition and... [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 cloud providers. CIO of Jaguar... [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 user working... [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 cloud... [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 Edition will eventually cover... [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 2.0-enabled business... [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, application teams are often reluctant to... [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 house for business, social media and productivity... [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 likely to be "hugely significant", potentially... [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 Simple Cloud API project, courtesy of... [24 Sep 2009]
Photos: BT previews superfast fibre broadband... in Muswell Hill
Photo We also look at cloud computing as well," Newton added. The telco has an 'if you build it they will come' philosophy when it comes to what kind of next-gen apps to expect in a fibre-enabled world. Other... [17 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 well as cloud IT services. The Obama... [17 Sep 2009]
