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Oracle buying Taleo for US$1.9 billion in direct hit at SAP
Oracle is buying cloud-based talent management and employee recruitment software vendor Taleo for roughly US$1.9 billion, the company announced Thursday. The move comes shortly after SAP's move to acquire SuccessFactors, a close competitor of Taleo, for US$3.4 billion in a deal that has yet to close.
By Chris Kanaracus | 10 February, 2012 00:28
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Salesforce.com shakes up Standard support plan features
Salesforce.com has made a series of changes to its support services that include the removal of certain features from the Standard tier, but which the company says overall will provide a better experience for customers.
By Chris Kanaracus | 09 February, 2012 08:37
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Why one insurance company ditched its own hardware- for a cloud -based SAN
Why do some enterprise managers decide to brave their way into the new and unknown of cloud-based services? Sometimes it's simply because the old technology just isn't working out that well anymore.
By Ellen Messmer | 09 February, 2012 01:29
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Flexing NoSQL: MongoDB in review
The NoSQL movement has spawned a slew of alternative data stores, all of which attempt to fill voids left by traditional relational database implementations. But while it's easy to fit the various relational databases (MySQL, Oracle, DB2, and so on) under a single categorical umbrella, the NoSQL world is much more diverse, and the NoSQL label is too general. NoSQL data stores such as MongoDB and Cassandra are so vastly different from each other that apples-to-apples comparisons are practically impossible. Thus, within the world of NoSQL, there are subcategories such as key-value stores, graph databases, and document-oriented stores.
By Andrew Glover | 08 February, 2012 22:15
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FBI declares cloud vendors must meet CJIS security rules
The FBI Tuesday reaffirmed its rule that all cloud products sold to to U.S. law enforcement agencies must comply with the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS) security requirements.
By Jaikumar Vijayan | 08 February, 2012 07:54
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Top 5 free Google Apps add-ons for business
Google launched its Apps Marketplace back in March, effectively inviting companies to create business software for the cloud that would sit alongside the standard set of Google Apps.
By Keir Thomas | 25 November, 2010 05:48
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Get 5GB of free cloud-sync storage from SugarSync
Wouldn't it be cool if you had a "magic" folder on your PC, one that automatically synced its contents with the Web, your other PCs, your cell phone, and other devices?
By Rick Broida | 11 November, 2010 09:42
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How to: move your business to cloud computing
The Internet has changed the way people do nearly everything--from consuming media to performing research to maintaining relationships to communicating.
By Adam Pash | 28 April, 2010 00:38
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10 must-have tools for Cloud power users
For many of us, the Cloud has changed the way we work and play. Thanks to well-known services like Gmail, Dropbox, Facebook and Instapaper, practically our whole lives - photos, documents, contacts and more - are online. So isn't it time to take control?
By JR Raphael | 08 December, 2011 03:06
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Guide: How to bulletproof your website
'Tis the season to begin ramping up online shopping activity, and for retailers that means doing all they can to ensure their websites are up, highly available and able to handle peak capacity. Looming in many IT managers' minds is the cautionary tale of Target, whose website crashed twice after it was inundated by an unprecedented number of online shoppers when the retailer began selling clothing and accessories from high-end Italian fashion company Missoni.
By Esther Shein | 29 November, 2011 03:32
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Are you ready for networking in the cloud?
The two primary forms of public cloud computing, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), are both growing dramatically in popularity. Over the last few years, the primary focus of the IaaS providers has been on offering the basic compute and storage resources required to run applications.
By Jim Metzler | 31 October, 2011 21:48
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Gartner: The top 10 strategic technology trends for 2012
ORLANDO -- The technology that makes up many of the systems in the ITworld today is at a critical juncture and in the next five years everything from mobile devices and applications to servers and social networking will impact IT in ways companies need to prepare for now, Gartner Vice President David Cearley says.
By Michael Cooney | 19 October, 2011 04:41
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Guide: How to sync your PC, smartphone, and tablet
A few years ago businesspeople carried a laptop on the road, used a desktop PC in the office, and worked on another PC at home. Maybe they had a BlackBerry, too--but only if they were real big shots.
By Loyd Case | 29 September, 2011 23:55
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