Cloud Computing

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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…

    Channel Insider Staff

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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…

    Jessica Davis

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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…

    Lawrence Walsh

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    Google Chrome: The Official Start of the Cloud Era

     Google is getting a ho-hum reaction from the IT world following last week’s release of the Chrome OS, its attempt at an operating system designed for cloud-based applications and contender to the Microsoft desktop crown. Critics and skeptics, however, have labeled Chrome with such tarnishing descriptors as dull, uninspired, lackluster and ne’er-do-well. Microsoft has issued…

    Lawrence Walsh

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    Google Chrome OS to Boot PC Within 7 Seconds

    (Reuters) – New Google Inc software will start up a computer as fast as a television can be turned on, the search company said on Thursday as it showed off its Chrome operating system designed for PCs that do their work on the Web Google gave the first public look at its Chrome OS four…

    Channel Insider Staff

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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…

    Darryl K. Taft

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