Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Moving Wi-Fi complexity into the cloud; open-source CRM and ERP on the cloud; keeping control of the cloud

Open-source CRM and ERP: New kids on the cloud; EMC teams with Intel for power-efficient cloud storage
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Moving Wi-Fi complexity into the cloud

There are now at least three companies moving enterprise Wi-Fi control functions, management functions or both into the cloud. Read full story

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Open-source CRM and ERP: New kids on the cloud
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Fujitsu offers managed storage range
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Dev/Test in the cloud: Rules for getting it right
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Amazon downplays report highlighting vulnerabilities in its cloud service
Amazon today said that it has taken steps to mitigate a security issue in its cloud computing infrastructure that was identified recently by researchers from MIT and the University of California at San Diego.

Google sticks it to Microsoft with Los Angeles cloud contract
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Cloud computing: Simply SaaS renamed?
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