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Tech guns for hire: 5 places to find skilled IT contractors
Need outside help for your next IT project? It's easy to hire tech freelancers online, but how do you separate the wheat from the chaff? Here are...
Upcoming Salesforce.com release adds real-time chat capabilities
Salesforce.com, which has placed ample emphasis on its Chatter social networking application, will actually begin providing real-time chat...
SAP lays out cloud strategy post-SuccessFactors deal
SAP announced a broad set of plans to become a player in cloud computing, spanning from a "loosely coupled suite" of business applications to data...
About 600,000 L.A. Community College students to get Microsoft Live@EDU
The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) will provide email and collaboration applications to about 600,000 students via Microsoft's...
Utility hires outsourcer -- but keeps IT staff
Consumers Energy, a large utility in Michigan, has hired an offshore outsourcing firm to take over some of its IT operations. But instead of cutting...
Cloud, BYOD Increases Need for Automated IAM Systems
As traditional security concepts of perimeter and end-point defense break down as a result of the proliferation of cloud services and the BYOD...
Big Data Analytics Gold for the Call Center
There's valuable data in those contact center logs that have largely been gathering dust, and companies are using new tools to mine them to boost...
5 Outsourcing Trends to Watch
The deals are getting smaller, with new pricing models, while security and cloud computing become hot topics.
Salesforce.com's Heroku rolls out new cloud database options
Salesforce.com's Heroku division this week rolled out two entry-level tiers for its Postgres-based cloud database service, hoping to cater to...
Epicor moving its applications to Microsoft's Azure cloud
Epicor is planning to work with Microsoft to bring Epicor's ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications to the Azure cloud service, the companies...
Hostage Crisis in the Cloud: Can You Rescue Your Data Back?
Outsourcing contracts typically include termination and transition assistance provisions that outline the IT service provider's responsibilities...
Office Live Small Business is closed, but customers still grapple with migration
The deadline to migrate email domains and websites hosted on the Microsoft Office Live Small Business (OLSB) online service suite passed on Monday,...
SaaS offering provides detailed analysis of your software portfolio
Are you faced with the need to do a software portfolio analysis but find the prospect daunting given the scattered nature of your operation? A new...
At Interior Department, Google Apps will co-exist with Outlook, Office -- for now
Although the U.S. Interior Department plans to replace its on-premise email servers with Google Apps' cloud-based Gmail, the agency will retain...
Sage moving ERP apps to Microsoft's Azure cloud
Following an ongoing industry trend, Sage Group is moving a number of its ERP (enterprise resource planning) software products to Microsoft's Azure...
VMware to offer enterprise application portal
VMware will offer enterprise software that allows employees to access all their desktop Windows applications and online services from a single...
After legal tussle, Google beats Microsoft for large US contract
The U.S. Department of the Interior has picked Google Apps to provide cloud-based email and collaboration applications to about 90,000 staffers,...
Google makes BigQuery available to all
BigQuery, a cloud-based service from Google for analyzing very large sets of data, is now publicly available after a period of limited-availability...
Informatica adds developer edition to cloud data-integration platform
Informatica has added a new developer edition to its cloud-based data-integration platform in a bid to further expand a partner ecosystem around the...
LG to launch cloud for sharing content across smartphones, TVs and PCs
LG Electronics will launch a beta of its LG Cloud service on Tuesday, that will allow users to access content across various electronic devices, the...
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