Recent Articles
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The Cloud SMB Force or Distraction
The cloud is all the rage, or at least that’s what the IT industry wants us to believe. For certain, the cloud is making a difference, but just how that will impact small and medium businesses over the long term remains to be seen. We’ve been here before. Remember Application Service Providers (ASP’s) back in…
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Business Opportunities and Threats in the Technology Cloud
Cloud computing threatens to disrupt many of the business models around the IT industry as traditional desktops and client computing are transformed into something different. But don’t expect big enterprises to make the move right away. That’s because it’s harder for big companies with their investments in legacy IT to make a quick switch to…
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Handling Deadbeat Cloud Computing Customers
Over dinner last night in Manhattan, my friend Christian Renaud recounted a horror story in mobility: his iPhone service was shut off while he was traveling in Spain and Portugal. The reason wasn’t because he didn’t pay his bill, but rather he had exceeded his data limit – not once, but twice. Renaud is the…
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SugarCRM`s Windows Azure Move Plays to VARs
SugarCRM has announced that it will offer its CRM applications on Windows Azure to enable its customers and value-added resellers (VARs) to benefit from the real-time scalability, high availability and on-demand infrastructure of the Microsoft cloud platform for web applications and services. SugarCRM announced its plans at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2009 in…