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Cloud Computing

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Cloud Computing: IT Operations Changes Are Mandatory

Take a peek at the cloud's role in the web pages of the future: built on the fly from a portfolio of high-volume applications. CIO.com's Bernard Golden takes you inside the next wave of application scale and what it means for IT ops.

7 Jan 2010
Cloud Computing Virtualization
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Legacy Apps in the Cloud: Six Details Worth Sweating

Forget the big-picture cloud worries. Small details could wreak havoc in the cloud for companies porting legacy apps, analysts say.

17 Dec 2009
Cloud Computing Data Center
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What CIOs Get Wrong About Emerging Technology

Clayton Christensen, professor at Harvard Business School and expert on disruptive innovation, talks about how new technologies such as cloud computing mean big changes for the CIO role and why they still don't get alignment.

16 Dec 2009
Cloud Computing Innovation
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Why the Cloud Should Have Your Back-Up

Hard drives die, computers get stolen, and storage media becomes obsolete. Here's why and how you should back up your personal data in the cloud.

15 Dec 2009
Cloud Computing
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What Cloud Computing Can Do for Higher Education

Higher education IT organizations need to perform application triage, finding lower-cost places -- like the cloud -- to move low-value software.

15 Dec 2009
Cloud Computing Virtualization
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5 Ways to Get More from LinkedIn in 2010

Do you understand everything LinkedIn can do for you? Start the new year off right with these five tips to help you get even more from the business networking service.

12 Dec 2009
Consumer Electronics SaaS Social Networking Apps
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VeriSign Ensures Security in the Cloud

VeriSign has been chosen to provide cloud-based security and authentication for the Windows Azure platform.

10 Dec 2009
Risk Management Small and Medium Business Virtualization
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Why Benchmarking Cloud vs. Current IT Costs is So Hard

Cloud providers make their services' costs quite transparent, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden. The trouble is, for most companies, current data center costs remain opaque. Will new tools help?

3 Dec 2009
Cloud Computing Virtualization
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CIOs Talk Google Apps Migration

Chief information officers heard first-hand accounts from their colleagues about moving to Google Apps at a recent roundtable, with New Zealand Postal Services, AAPT and Mortgage Choice all migrating to the cloud applications.

21 Nov 2009
CIO Cloud Computing Virtualization
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Iceland: New Hot Spot for Data Centers?

Is a data center near the North Pole naughty or nice? With cheap energy, cheap cooling and incentives to spur its ailing economy, Iceland has growing appeal to data-intensive companies running scads of servers.

17 Nov 2009
Cloud Computing Data Center