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As cloud computing environments become more commonplace and complex, users will have a difficult time integrating the various cloud services and ensuring their integrity, according to Gartner. That will give rise to what Gartner is calling “cloud service brokerages,” who will essentially negotiate the relationship between the end users and providers and make it easier for businesses to manage their cloud services.
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With its recent move to peel back the beta label from Gmail and other Google Apps, Google has admitted that lots of companies aren't comfortable with using beta products.
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A new survey by research firm Gartner found that businesses were relatively lukewarm to software as a service, suggesting that, despite the hype, these applications need more work in order to gain full acceptance within the enterprise. Those who declined to use SAAS cited high costs, difficulty with integration and failure to meet technical requirements as primary reasons.
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Zoho continues to create plug-ins to let users migrate data created in Microsoft's on-premise applications to Zoho's cloud computing application environments. The latest free plug-in, Zoho Plug-in for Microsoft Access, lets users import their data from Microsoft Access database applications to Zoho Creator. The idea is to help Microsoft customers migrate to Zoho's SAAS suites.
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In its latest IT Monitor survey, reseller CDW found increased optimism among large enterprises and midsize companies, which reported plans to increase their IT investments in products and people over the coming months. According to the survey, many of these companies and federal government agencies are seeing the IT industry hit the bottom and are preparing to spend money. However, smaller businesses and local governments are less optimistic in their anticipated IT spending, the survey found.
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Chrome OS looks sleek and feels fast, according to screenshots from Engadget, but what do we really know about the Chrome OS experience? Not much, though a source familiar with Google's application development says Chrome Web browser will essentially leverage Chrome OS to run Web apps really fast. That sounds all well and good, but what will this ultimately mean for Linux distributions?
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Microsoft could potentially face a threat in the newly announced Google Chrome OS, intended to operate on mininotebooks, known popularly as "netbooks." If netbooks continue to increase their share of the overall PC market, some analysts predict Google’s OS could seize a respectable OS market share within three to five years. Google has also suggested that Chrome OS will eventually be able to power full-size desktop systems, an idea that directly threatens Windows.
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The next time you download new or updated Java networking software for a mobile device, laptop or desktop computer, you'll be offered a free 30-day trial of Carbonite, a Web service that offers unlimited data backup for $4.95 per month or $55 per year.
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UPDATED: EMC will acquire Data Domain for $2.1 billion. NetApp Chairman and CEO Dan Warmenhoven says NetApp can't justify an increasingly expensive bidding war that would reduce the benefits of the deal.
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Analysts say they need to see more of the Linux-based Google Chrome OS before they believe it will eventually prove disruptive to Microsoft Windows. While Google's marketing push for the platform is half-hearted, the product has the potential to give a significant boost to the nascent cloud computing market as Google seeks to extend its Web search and Web services across the Internet.
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The OffiSync plug-in, which marries Google Apps, Docs and search engine functionality with Microsoft Office documents, is coming to enterprise users. For $10 per user, per year, businesses will be able to bring Microsoft Office documents into the cloud, saving them for collaboration in Google Apps. The tool comes as vendors grapple with how to expose more on-premises users to cloud computing.
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iStrategyLabs finds a burst in Facebook users aged 55 and older from January 2009 until July, while traffic from high school and college users drops roughly 20 percent on the social network. This follows research from comScore that found Twitter use for users 25 to 54 has grown. The Twitter burst was chalked up to more professional use, but how can we explain the boom in users 55+?
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Google Gmail, Docs, Calendar and Talk exit beta for Google Apps, potentially removing a major barrier to the adoption of Google Apps in the enterprise as a messaging and collaboration platform. Also, Fairchild Semiconductor dumps Lotus Notes for Google Apps. With these moves, Google hopes more business customers will choose its pay-for GAPE service over suites from Microsoft, IBM, Cisco and others.
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By enhancing several software offerings with support for VMware's vSphere 4 virtualization platform and Cisco's Nexus 1000V virtual switches, CA is looking to ease enterprise management of virtualized and cloud computing environments. CA officials say technologies like those from VMware and Cisco are quickly blurring the line between physical and virtual environments, and enterprises need tools that can allow them to manage both environments from a single place.
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Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz launch a new venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, with an initial fund of $300 million.
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