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Cashing in on the Cloud
Cashing in on the Cloud There’s more than one way to make money in the cloud. Traditional resellers may automatically gravitate towards reselling SAAS applications. It requires little to no capital investment and data center hardware, but don’t expect the revenue stream to replace existing break/fix work. You have to do both. And not all…
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Digital Fuel Provides Comparison Shopping Help for Cloud Solutions
Digital Fuel, a provider of SAAS IT business management solutions, announced the debut of IT Cloud Cost Management, which helps provide small to medium-size businesses with a way to compare the total cost of ownership, unit cost and performance of IT services of different cloud and non-cloud alternatives and vendors, as well as compare them…
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Salesforce.com Posts Quarter Profit But Forecast Disappoints
By Jim Finkle SAN FRANCISCO, May 20 (Reuters) – Salesforce.com Inc (NYSE:CRM) issued a full-year profit outlook at the low end of Wall Street projections as the Web-based software maker plans to increase spending to fuel sales growth. Salesforce, whose shares fell 5.6 percent in after-hours trading, said profit will also be hurt by costs…
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Google, VMware Partner for Cloud Development, Portability
Google is partnering with VMware on what the companies are calling cloud portability – technologies that make it easy for Java developers to use their standard tools to develop web applications. The partnership falls under the Google App Engine for Business, a set of technologies that enable companies to create and deploy their own applications…
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Amazon S3 Offers Value Option for Online Backup
Amazon Web Services, perhaps feeling pressure from a spate of competing services from conventional storage companies as well as startups, came out May 19 with what amounts to a price cut option for its Simple Storage Service cloud backup service. Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage is designed to store noncritical, reproducible data and files at…
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CA Touts Cloud, Virtualization Management Technology
CA Technologies is expanding its cloud computing and virtualization management capabilities through a host of new and enhanced products, as well as an expanded partnership with Cisco Systems. At CA World 2010 in Las Vegas May 17, CA Technologies officials unveiled new and enhanced management software offerings that give IT administrators robust capabilities to manage…
