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Cloud-Based Storage Improves Disaster Recovery at Situs

Since real estate consultancy The Situs Companies moved to a cloud-based storage system in 2010, the company has dramatically improved the speed and reliability of backups and significantly reduced IT costs.

27 Aug 2011 7 mins
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Cloud CIO: The Challenges of Competing with Cloud Computing Providers

There is no question that corporate IT departments need to change their cultures and their organizational structures to compete with cloud providers, but doing so introduces a variety of practical challenges--including convincing the CFO to embrace a

27 Aug 2011 7 mins
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Why RIM’s BBM Music Service is Destined to Fail

BlackBerry-maker RIM today unveiled a brand new, cloud-based music-streaming service for BlackBerry users, BBM Music. But CIO.com's Al Sacco isn't impressed and offers up five solid reasons why BBM Music may be doomed from the get-go.

26 Aug 2011 6 mins
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iPad Culture Shock for IT

The iPad is unlike any other enterprise technology, delivered to market by a vendor seemingly indifferent to CIOs, and surrounded by mass media-fed confusion. How can CIOs cope?

24 Aug 2011 7 mins
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How the Cloud Can Solve Security Problems

Jerry Archer, board member of the Cloud Security Alliance, discusses how cloud computing will make security better for everybody.

23 Aug 2011 7 mins
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Cloud Computing: More IT Leaders Turn to SaaS ERP

As cloud-based business applications enter the mainstream, objections to using SaaS-based ERP software are fading fast.

23 Aug 2011 7 mins
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SaaS ERP is Making the Grade at Brown University

Instead of upgrading a 25-year-old mainframe ERP hodge-podge, IT leaders at Brown University decided to move to SaaS ERP for cost savings, IT simplification and better applications. Meanwhile, the City of Sanibel, Fla., is following its own SaaS ERP

23 Aug 2011 5 mins
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Cloud Growth Prompts Dramatic Shift in Enterprise Security Strategies

Because traditional approaches to security don't port easily to public or private clouds, the nonprofit Cloud Security Alliance is working to help CIOs assess the security levels of various cloud providers.

23 Aug 2011 7 mins
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Cloud CIO: What “Consumerization of IT” Really Means to CIOs

The consumerization of IT isn't just about employees using consumer devices and apps at work. It's about consumers becoming the primary users of internal IT applications, and it has serious ramifications for how CIOs operate and scale their

13 Aug 2011 10 mins
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RightNow CEO on Improving the Customer Experience

RightNow Technologies CEO Greg Gianforte sat down with IDG Enterprise Chief Content Officer John Gallant to discuss how his company is dramatically improving the customer experience in all the places consumers touch organizations.

11 Aug 2011 17 mins
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