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  • IT Pros Lack Tools to Combat Social Media Cyber-Threats

    IT professionals consider social media as a positive business tool within the enterprise, but they were concerned they didn’t have the right technology and policies to deal with the dangers, a recent report found. The "Global Survey on Social Media Risks" from the Ponemon Institute released Sept. 29 surveyed 4,640 IT and IT security practitioners…

  • ChannelEyes Wants to Be Facebook for the Channel

    ChannelEyes LLC, a new social network for IT solution providers and channel vendors is making its existence known this weekend at the SMB Nation event in Las Vegas where founders will be handing out postcards inviting channel players to sign up.   The new social network is expected to debut by the end of this…

  • Cloud Services Market to Hit $66 Billion by 2016

    The global public cloud services market will more than triple in size over the next five years to reach revenue of $66 billion in 2016 and the market will see a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 29.4 percent from the $18 billion it will reach at the end of 2011, according to a forecast…

  • Cloud Computing Needs Better Quality Assurance

    Success in the cloud ultimately hinges on quality. The problem is that when you depend on the public Internet to deliver your services, quality is largely out of your control. What do I mean by quality? I’m talking about the combination of availability, performance and security that ultimately will inspire end users to embrace or…

  • Capgemini, SAP Team on Managed Mobility Platform

    SAP announced that it is teaming with long-time partner and consulting powerhouse Capgemini to roll out a new line of software as a service and platform as a service mobility solutions based on the Sybase Managed Mobility platform, many of which will support the overall push by SAP to support mobile access to its back-end…

  • 10 Features We Like In the Kindle Fire

    10 Features We Like In the Kindle Fire The PriceWhat’s not to like about the Kindle Fire’s price. For $199, consumers are getting a 7-inch tablet fully equipped with Android, applications, and the e-commerce giant’s suite of services, including Amazon Instant and its cloud-storage service. It might not have the big display of the iPad…

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