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	INSIDER Platform-as-a-service heats up The platform-as-a-service market is still tiny, but it's growing as vendors consolidate and more organizations decide give PaaS a try. (Registration required.) Read More WEBCAST: HP Intel VMware Your IT Journey - Your Way Faced with unrelenting pressure to do more with less, IT leaders are implementing virtualization, mobility and cloud computing in their enterprises. In this Knowledge Vault Exchange you'll find a plethora of valuable information, including videos, on-demand Webcasts, white papers and Twitter chats. View Now! In this Issue Dropbox adds new tools to make syncing smarter What economists can teach us about cloud computing Microsoft changes CRM Online licensing model to compete with Salesforce.com Cloud services pave the way for call center growth Startup's cloud-based workforce analytics designed to be easy on the end user WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation EMC Service Assurance Suite Discover how you can get visibility into virtualized environments, the cloud and software-defined date centers, analyze availability and performance, optimize the environment and control costs with end-to-end performance, capacity management and reporting. Learn more. Dropbox adds new tools to make syncing smarter Dropbox is adding a suite of features to its file-hosting services to provide more syncing tools for app developers and make it easier for end users to access their data across devices. Read More What economists can teach us about cloud computing The work of a Victorian-era economist who studied demand for coal and a 1930s specialist in business transactions explains why this is the era of cloud computing. Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation EMC Best Practices in Data Protection Monitoring Whether you consider your domain to be a private cloud, a hybrid cloud, or a public cloud, you are providing data protection as a service. According to ESG's 2013 IT Spending Intentions Survey, improving data backup and recovery was the number two-most important IT priority selected by respondents (27%). Learn more. Microsoft changes CRM Online licensing model to compete with Salesforce.com Microsoft is rolling out a more flexible licensing policy for its CRM Online application that could make it more competitive with the likes of Salesforce.com -- but in one instance it also introduces a price increase. Read More Cloud services pave the way for call center growth One provider of contact center services in Latin America sees cloud computing as critical to competing with much larger competitors. Read More Startup's cloud-based workforce analytics designed to be easy on the end user Ex-Business Objects CEO John Schwarz puts the layman first in designing a new cloud-based analytics system employees can actually use. Read More
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