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Amazon Web Services Will Continue to Disrupt Enterprises, IT Vendors

Traditional IT vendors may deride Amazon as a mere bookseller, but Amazon Web Service is growing quickly, not to mention inexpensively. If those vendors aren't careful, AWS will soon compete against them in the enterprise cloud computing market-

May 1, 2013 8 mins

Cloud Computing System Management Virtualization

How IT Can Achieve Operational Resiliency

Today's complex IT environments make maintaining 'always on' availability more challenging than ever before, even as IT has become central to most business operations. IDC's David Tapper says organizations must adopt a plan for ac

Apr 30, 2013 5 mins

Backup and Recovery Compliance Disaster Recovery

Will Fault Tolerant Servers Improve Your Virtualized Environment?

Companies are turning to fault tolerant servers as a way to improve uptime without experiencing the downtime associated with high availability solutions. But fault tolerant technology may not be right for every enterprise.

Apr 30, 2013 5 mins

SAN Server Virtualization Servers

How to Evaluate High Availability Options for Virtualized IT Environments

One upside to virtualization is that it puts more applications on fewer servers. One downside is that the availability of those servers become of greater importance.

Apr 29, 2013 5 mins

Server Virtualization Servers System Management

Swype Keyboard for Android Finally Emerges from Beta

The Swype keyboard for Android, long in beta and limited to just a few handsets, is now available for all Android smartphones and tablets. Swype takes some getting used to, according to CIO.com blogger James A. Martin, but it can be a valuable typing

Apr 25, 2013 2 mins

Android Compliance Smartphones

Box Takes Electronic Health Records to the Cloud

Healthcare providers were among the first industries to use tablets and other mobile devices, but leveraging them fully has been difficult due to regulations that protect electronic health records and other personal health information. But enterprise

Apr 25, 2013 6 mins

HIPAA Regulation Small and Medium Business

Yahoo Weather, Mail Apps Get Much-Needed Updates

If you gave up on Yahoo long ago, you might be surprised by its updated Weather app for iOS and its Mail apps for both iOS and Android, according to CIO.com blogger James A. Martin. Here's why.

Apr 19, 2013 2 mins

Compliance iPad iPhone

Best iOS and Android Apps, Spring 2013 Edition – Part I

CIO.com blogger James A. Martin picks his favorite iOS and Android apps that he's reviewed this year. Today's winners: apps that make video editing easy, turn email browsing into a pleasurable experience, and banish paper junk mail.

Apr 11, 2013 3 mins

Compliance Small and Medium Business iPhone

‘CoPilot Live’ GPS App for iOS, Android is Worth a Test Drive

CoPilot Live HD Premium USA, a GPS-based maps app for iOS and Android, has a number of unique features, including routes for RVs and motorcycles. But its map data steered CIO.com blogger James A. Martin wrong on a few occasions.

Mar 29, 2013 3 mins

Android Compliance iPad

Amazon’s New ‘Send to Kindle’ Button Perfect for Offline Reading

Amazon released a button for website owners that lets visitors quickly and easily send articles to Kindles for reading offline or in the future.

Mar 21, 2013 3 mins

Compliance Consumer Electronics

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