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Adobe, Cisco, Microsoft Join Level 3 Network Partner Program
Fiber-based communications network provider Level 3 Communications (NASDAQ: LVLT) is launching a new Content Delivery Partner (CDP) program for direct resellers, VARs and device vendors, with inaugural partners such as Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), aimed at expanding the reach and value of Level 3’s broadcast and content delivery services. Billing itself as a telepresence-ready network provider, Level…
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Microsoft, Intuit Target Small Business, QuickBooks Cloud Computing
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Intuit (NASDAQ:INTU) are teaming up to deliver Web-based applications to small business customers through the Intuit App Center, calling on their respective .NET and Intuit Partner Platform Developers to extend existing applications such as QuickBooks to make them more useful to small businesses. The two companies say that developers and channel partners…
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Microsoft Calls for Laws to Ensure Privacy, Security in the Cloud
If you’ve talked to your business customers about whether they have plans to move any of their IT infrastructure into the cloud, you’ve heard the same set of concerns—security and privacy. Today Microsoft called on government leaders to take action to alleviate those concerns by passing legislation to modernize criminal law to address crimes committed…
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SAP Business ByDesign Coming to Market at Last?
It’s no secret that the giants of packaged enterprise applications—SAP, Oracle, etc.—got lapped by nimbler competitors in the race to take their business software to the cloud. Salesforce.com and Netsuite went to software-as-a-service right out of the gate, while SAP, in particular, has struggled to develop a credible version of its software for the new…
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Microsoft, HP Jointly Reach for the Cloud
At times sounding more like a single entity than two separate corporate giants, Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard today announced a three-year, $250 million technology-integration and go-to-market agreement that spans the entire data center stack from hardware infrastructure up to the application layer. In a press conference, Microsoft chairman and CEO Steve Ballmer and HP CEO Mark…
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Dramatic Data Center Denouement: Making Sense of 2009
Lean and Green Seems like one of the mantras of 2009 was “Do more with less,” and that’s what going green is most often all about. Whether it’s greater energy efficiency or greater attention to recycling IT assets when they’ve come to the end of their useful lives, green was a big trend for the…