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Cloud Computing Services and IT Budgets on the Rise
A report from IT management specialist Spiceworks found small to medium-size business IT professionals expect this year to be better than last, with business IT budgets up in 2010 as the economy seems to be stabilizing. However, the last six months of 2009 proved to be much harder on midmarket IT departments than IT professionals…
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ParaScale Cloud Storage Software Adds More Data Security
Just a year after it first introduced its Cloud Storage Software, ParaScale has announced it is offering the Beta 2.5 version of the technology. The announcement comes as the industry is seeing more momentum behind cloud computing. Based on its first cloud computing survey focused exclusively on servers, IDC predicted that server revenue in the…
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SAP Enterprises Get ERP Hosting in the Cloud
Businesses that have come to rely on enterprise applications from vendors such as Oracle and SAP may believe that the complexity of their systems will prevent them from ever taking advantage of the benefits outsourcing those systems to the cloud. And customers are gravitating towards the cloud, both for the nimbleness it offers them, the…
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Tech Giants in Acquisition Frenzy
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Technology firms are kicking off a new wave of mergers and acquisitions as cash-rich makers of hardware, software and everything in between position themselves for economic recovery and reach into new markets. The movement toward mobile computing, the increasing importance of data storage, and the use of the Internet to access…
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Citrix Partners with HP, Dell, McAfee, Wyse, More to Help VARs
Citrix is taking this advice to heart: it’s better to show than it is to tell. The Citrix Virtual Computing Demo Center was one of several announcements by Citrix and its vendor partners at the event the week of May 10, 2010. The demo center lets channel partners prepare for a demo and provision a…
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Microsoft Office 2010 takes Word, Excel and PowerPoint to Cloud
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp launched an updated version of its Office software on Wednesday, aiming to keep its grip on the hugely profitable business application market while countering the challenge of free online alternatives from Google Inc. The world’s largest software company is upgrading its popular Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint applications and rolling out…