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HP Cuts 27,000 Jobs, Doesn't Fix Identity Problem

May 23, 2012
A little more guidance on HP's long-term vision would go a long way right now, with customers and investors.

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Ciena's Virtual WANs Offer Bandwidth For Cloud Apps

May 23, 2012
Ciena at EMC World 2012 demonstrates simulated hybrid cloud designed to provide bandwidth-on-demand services for data-intensive cloud applications.

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Oracle Buys Vitrue For Social Marketing

May 23, 2012
Vitrue could provide the social marketing hook to drive sales into RightNow and Oracle's CRM systems.

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EMC Shares New Atmos Details

May 22, 2012
EMC unveiled a handful of specifics about its Atmos cloud storage at EMC World. What will it mean for you?

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EMC World: New Documentum Debuts

May 22, 2012
EMC pushes Documentum D2 release, plus vertical apps via its hybrid cloud.

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Salesforce.com Chatter To Gain IM, Screen Sharing

May 22, 2012
Salesforce will add instant messaging and presence in June, followed by a pilot of screen sharing for Chatter.

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Mindjet Connects Vision, Action In Social Platform

May 21, 2012
Following up on last year's acquisition of Cohuman, Mindjet creates a social platform that excels at letting users visually map out plans, then...

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Cloud's Tough Enemy: Chargeback Pushback

May 21, 2012
Chargeback has always been hard for IT, but cloud computing forces the issue. At the same time, pushback from business users continues.

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Yammer, Chatter, Tibbr Ranked Top Social Activity Streams

May 21, 2012
Forrester Research ranks the leaders in a market segment that excludes social intranet portal players like Jive Software.

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EMC's Gelsinger Talks Cloud Storage, Pricing Pressure

May 21, 2012
Before kicking off this week's EMC World conference, EMC president and chief operating officer Pat Gelsinger spoke with InformationWeek on...

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Next Valley View: Cloud, Baseball IT, And More

May 21, 2012
Tune in May 23 for the next episode of our live Web TV series, including chats with execs from Framehawk and Cloudability, plus Bill Schlough, CIO...

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HP Layoffs Signal Punishing Fall

May 18, 2012
Unless HP can turn enterprise software, cloud services, or some other line into a high-volume, high-margin business, it's in for a world of hurt.

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Google Apps: Has Adoption Slowed?

May 18, 2012
Google renewed its pitch to embrace cloud IT at its Atmosphere roadshow. But its count of companies going Google Apps doesn't add up.

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SaaS EHR Model Gains Physician Support

May 17, 2012
Many small practices like the software-as-a-service approach to electronic health records because it removes tech headaches and offers low upfront...

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IBM SmartCloud: As Much Cloud As You Want

May 17, 2012
IBM expands private, public, and hybrid cloud options for customers with its SmartCloud offerings, including IaaS in IBM data centers with...

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SAP Streamwork: One Customer's Story

May 16, 2012
Prototype system helps Applied Materials organize approvals on complex custom product specs, but not without tradeoffs.

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SuccessFactors Leading SAP Cloud Away From Business ByDesign

May 16, 2012
SuccessFactors founder Dalgaard, now leading SAP cloud strategy, wants to move toward "independent but super-integrated" apps.

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Microsoft Trumps Google In L.A. Cloud Deal

May 16, 2012
250,000 students and faculty at Los Angeles community colleges will move to Microsoft Live@edu online communication and collaboration services...

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Mulesoft's Cure To SaaS Integration Headaches

May 16, 2012
Mule iON SaaS edition provides tools, workflow to relieve the pain of trying to integrate software-as-a-service applications.

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SAP Plays Social Collaboration Game By Own Rules

May 15, 2012
SAP doesn't think it needs to beat the likes of Jive Software to win in social collaboration.

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Amazon Speeds Content Delivery Network

May 15, 2012
On-demand dynamic content service with flat-rate pricing may give Amazon's CloudFront an advantage against players including Akamai, Dell, and...

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Microsoft Sees Cloud As SMB Security Cure

May 15, 2012
Microsoft pushing the idea that cloud services offer more cost-effective security for SMBs than the alternative.

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OpenFlow: A Cloud Industry Uprising?

May 14, 2012
The rise of software-defined networking reflects an industry dissatisfied with the top networking infrastructure vendors' offerings.

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Cloud Management Tools: Beware 3 Pain Points

May 14, 2012
Know the danger zones as you select cloud management tool platforms.

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Social Business in 30 Days?

May 11, 2012
With Try Jive, Jive Software is flirting with the freemium model used by competitors like Yammer. But is 30 days long enough to see results?

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