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	8 piles of paper replaced by iPads Pilots, preachers, politicians and football teams among those taking the plunge with the Apple iPad tablet computer. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Benefits of an ITIL Help Desk in the Cloud You can implement help desk processes based on ITIL easily with reduced up-front costs and automatic upgrades. Used by more than 72,500 companies worldwide, the Force.com platform is the most widely used Cloud platform in the world. Read More In this Issue Hitwise: Google+ now 8th largest social network Enterprises gain cloud efficiencies with Sensible Cloud CloudSigma offers IaaS with flexible pricing Box.net boosts Sync, security features Google's 5 biggest hits (and misses) Microstrategy targets Excel users with Cloud Personal BI Will advanced biometrics automate future war machines? Canon, Oracle to develop document processing technology US applies brakes to Google-Motorola Android adoption accelerates, says Nielsen Google buys land to build three data centers in Asia WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc. A Perspective from the Edge of the Cloud Akamai Chief Scientist and co-Founder Tom Leighton explores the major forces and technology layers driving the cloud computing movement, the types of architectural approaches emerging and an assessment of the challenges that must be overcome for cloud computing to broadly succeed. Read now Hitwise: Google+ now 8th largest social network Traffic exploded on Google+ after the social networking site opened to the public, shooting up 1,269% in one week, making the site the eighth largest social network on the Internet, according to Web analytics firm Hitwise. Read More Enterprises gain cloud efficiencies with Sensible Cloud U.K. company Sensible Cloud is offering software designed to help companies take greater advantage of the benefits of cloud computing. Read More CloudSigma offers IaaS with flexible pricing CloudSigma, the European infrastructure-as-a-service provider, is bringing its offering to the crowded U.S. market. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Hardware Load Balancing A comprehensive F5 solution readies application infrastructure for a successful implementation of the re-engineered Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Learn More! Box.net boosts Sync, security features Box.net bumped up security and synchronization on its content management and sharing platform and teamed up with HP and Motorola Mobility for pre-installation deals at its BoxWorks user conference in San Francisco. Read More Google's 5 biggest hits (and misses) You know you've really made it when your name becomes a verb. But the phrase "to Google" has begun to mean more than just "search for something on the Web." It now signifies a kind of overarching ambition that's both impressive and a little scary. And when a company as large and ubiquitous Google stumbles, the whole world feels the aftershocks. Read More Microstrategy targets Excel users with Cloud Personal BI Microstrategy is hoping to get its BI (business intelligence) software in front of people looking to get more out of Microsoft Excel with a new service, Cloud Personal, that is being offered at no charge. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers, 2010 The market for ADCs is consolidating. However, innovation continues, especially among some select smaller players. Although there are clear leaders in the ADC market, enterprises should focus their buying decisions on a vendor's ability to support specific application requirements. Learn more! Will advanced biometrics automate future war machines? Biometric security breakthroughs are coming that would let the military capture from a distance an iris and facial scan of an individual and immediately match it to a biometrics-based "Watch List" of suspected terrorists, combatants or criminals. Read More Canon, Oracle to develop document processing technology Canon will work with Oracle to integrate its business copiers and printers with the software giant's database and server products. Read More US applies brakes to Google-Motorola The U.S. Department of Justice has asked Google for more information about its planned $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility, potentially slowing the transaction, Google said in a blog post Wednesday. Read More Android adoption accelerates, says Nielsen Google's Android mobile operating system is still steadily expanding its share of the U.S. smartphone market, as Nielsen reports that 43% of American smartphone subscribers use Android-based devices. Read More Google buys land to build three data centers in Asia Google has acquired land in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore to build data centers in these three locations, it said Wednesday. Read More
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