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Companies of all sizes are examining cloud computing and the cloud services that suppliers can offer. Cost, security, integration with existing company operations, and impact on bring-your-own-device (BYOD) programs are major factors. Many businesses are looking beyond mere cost savings ...
The desire to get a glimpse into the future is an ancient one. But most of the methods people try in attempting to do so did not work very well. Horoscopes and Ouija boards do not offer reliable results. Even ...
Big data specialists Cloudera just completed another round of funding, this one valuating the company at close to a billion dollars. This new funding makes it obvious that the smart money in Silicon Valley is betting on an explosion in ...
Google Now, the Android alert and notification service, is coming to a Chrome browser near you. Google has confirmed that it has added a "skeleton" for the service to Chrome, though it stopped short of formally committing to the integration.For ...
Infrastructure as a Service is one of the key cloud computing developments. If you are still asking, "What is IaaS," you are probably still spending a lot of money maintaining and constantly expanding your data center. Management Information Systems, Customer ...
The cloud has been dominant force in technology for the past few years, and Gartner, a major tech research firm, expects that trend to continue into the future. The prediction also highlights the growing importance of security in the clouds ...
The term "open source" was tossed around like any other tech buzzword some time ago. Many predicted the philosophy's eventual demise or, at best, relegation to hobbyists. Few expected open source software to take hold in the enterprise, citing security ...
Apple has enjoyed a reputation for having its closed operating systems remain mostly malware-free and hacker-proof over the years, but a recent hire shows that the company has become more security conscious. Former Microsoft hacker Kristin Paget is confirmed to ...
With the upcoming release of BlackBerry 10, RIM is taking some significant steps to ensure that the launch is going to go as smoothly as possible. The move may not do much to change the mind of anyone who has ...
Companies using custom-coded enterprise resource planning solutions from SAP can now take advantage of SAP's MaxAttention support service. With a bit of shrewd negotiating they might be able to get a deal on the deal.For the IT community at midsize ...
Android 4.1, otherwise known as Jelly Bean, is now available for Samsung Galaxy S3 users on the AT&T carrier network. This marks another benchmark in the gradual but steady rollout of the latest version of Android - and a marketing ...
A recent study at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute carried out by the Social Cognitive Network Academic Research Center (SCNARC) discovered that location may have more to do with developing friendships than the use of social media. The study's impact may be ...
In a fast-moving tech environment, Microsoft has already shown that it does not intend to be your parents' software company. Now it is launching into social networking with Microsoft Socl. At this early stage - Socl just shifted from a ...
Giants like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon offer a variety of data center-based cloud storage options. Now, developer Sysform is making the case for peer-to-peer (P2P) data storage, hoping to take advantage of spare computing cycles and underutilized servers. But can ...
When most midsize IT professionals think of dealing with an emergency they rarely think about it involving the police or emergency personnel. However, the new text-to-911 service that some major cell carriers will offer may require some involvement from the ...
Google has unveiled a spate of new Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) services while slashing prices significantly in a bid to take on the cloud computing kingpin Amazon. Amazon is currently leading the public cloud services market with its popular Elastic Compute 2 ...
According to a recent Capgemini study, corporate cloud adoption is on the rise. But there's a concern for IT departments: The study also found that business, not IT decision-makers, often controls cloud strategy. With the fight for every dollar, what ...
IT professionals around the world all know that their departments are undergoing a change in the face of business pressures, but many would be hard-pressed to determine just where those changes are taking them. Now, a new survey takes a ...
Hardly a moment goes by in the IT world when cloud access doesn't also mean mobile cloud access, and midsize firms are always looking for better ways to control data stored in the cloud while under the umbrella of BYOD. ...
Business intelligence is a relatively recent term coined to refer to the processing of raw data into a usable format for immediate use in marketing and many other disciplines, including finance, as demonstrated in a recent article in CIO. Earlier ...