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Google, Microsoft in ‘2-Horse Race’ for Government Cloud Contracts

As tech behemoths Google and Microsoft try to win over public-sector CIOs with their cloud-based productivity suites, government agencies eye cost savings and an increase in productivity and collaboration.

4 Sep 2013 11 mins

Government Government IT Microsoft Office

Amazon Web Services Competitors Get Bad News From Gartner

Amazon Web Services has put so much distance between itself and its cloud service provider competition that Gartner had to redraw the dimensions of its Magic Quadrant. Skepticism persists, of course, but the reality is that enterprises dismissing AWS

4 Sep 2013 8 mins

Developer System Management Virtualization

4 Client-Side Web Storage Options That Replace Cookies

Several standards exist for storing large amounts of data in a user's Web browser. Each has its benefits, tradeoffs, W3C standardization status and level of browser support. All are better than cookies.

3 Sep 2013 11 mins

Browsers Cloud Storage Web Development

Cloud Helps Financial Company Spin Up a New IT Operation

Another company acquired about 75 percent of Lincoln Trust, along with its technology, which left the CTO with a pressing need for a new technology platformu2029.

29 Aug 2013 3 mins

BPM Systems Cloud Computing Financial Services Industry

Red Hat Unveils New Offerings, Cloud Certification at VMworld

The open source solutions provider is showing off demos of its forthcoming CloudForms 2.1 cloud management technology at VMworld in San Francisco. It also announced a new product that integrates Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Enterpris

26 Aug 2013 4 mins

Certifications Hybrid Cloud Server Virtualization

NSA Revelations Prompt Tech Industry to Call for Privacy Safeguards

Leading trade organizations representing tech firms call on White House to tighten privacy and transparency requirements associated with government's electronic surveillance programs.

26 Aug 2013 5 mins

Cloud Management Government Regulation

VMware’s Cloud Strategy Equal Parts Foggy, Stormy

With VMworld on the horizon, VMware has been touting its cloud strategy. That 'strategy,' though, seems to involve dissing Microsoft and Amazon, marginalizing CSP partners and clinging to the idea that the cloud is solely the domain of IT d

21 Aug 2013 9 mins

Cloud Management Hybrid Cloud Private Cloud

Who Are the Real Winners in the Microsoft-Oracle Deal?

The new Microsoft-Oracle partnership benefits both companies, as Oracle gets access to Azure and Microsoft can finally license Java. Will the deal have any effect on either company's enterprise customers?

15 Aug 2013 5 mins

Cloud Management Developer Java

Why CRM Implementation Needs Training Wheels, Not Racing Gear

If it's true that the best CRM systems are built, not bought, then which features should you be building? And how should you build them? As with riding a bike, implementing a CRM system gets much harder once you take off the training wheels--or,

13 Aug 2013 6 mins

Agile Development CRM Systems Project Management Tools

How to Find the Cloud-Storage Service That’s Right for You

NextAdvisor compared cloud-backup and cloud-storage services from eight companies. CIO.com blogger Bill Snyder takes a look at each service and offers tips on how to determine which one is right for you.

12 Aug 2013 3 mins

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