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Applications Meant for the Cloud
Applications Meant for the Cloud Everyone’s moving to the cloud, right? Wrong. Security and availability concerns have enterprises tip-toeing with trepidation into cloud territory. But, top analysts at IDC say the benefits of moving certain applications to the cloud outweigh the risks for some enterprises. IDC revealed the top 5 cloud applications most likely to…
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Cisco’s Biggest Partners Win in Cisco, HP Rift
As Cisco breaks off its longstanding partner relationship with HP, the big winners are likely to be Cisco’s largest channel partners who may find themselves taking over implementing technologies that HP used to resell and implement on Cisco’s behalf. Cisco to HP: Hit the Road, Jack Cisco’s Channel Chief Keith Goodwin this week announced in…
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Clouds Reign On IBM Channel Parade
Looking to match the hottest item on channel partners’ agendas this year — cloud computing IBM will provide a day of cloud content to 1,000 Tivoli partners Feb. 21 at the kickoff to its Pulse 2010 conference in Las Vegas. It will be the first in a year-long series of cloud computing camps that show…
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Salesforce’s Force.com Gives ISVs Entry to Cloud
About two years ago, Salesforce.com introduced its Force.com offering, through which the software-as-a-service giant invited developers to create cloud-based applications that would run on Salesforce.com’s own infrastructure. I must say that when I first heard about Salesforce.com’s efforts to allow development for the cloud through its own Force.com site, I was a bit skeptical about…
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Trepidation in Moving to the Cloud
I’m thinking a lot about something I don’t have good answers to yet. I like to sit down and write something insightful, some meaningful thought that you can take forth. Today, I’m pondering questions that don’t have simple answers. As 2010 has gotten underway, the question of building business in a cloud world has taken…
