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	How the cloud is blowing up the network For networking folks, the good old days are fading away. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap 2013 NEW: IT Roadmap Washington, D.C. is all new for 2013! The content-rich agenda has been redesigned and reenergized to include increased IDG content from editors you know and trust and FIVE FOCUSED PILLARS OF TECHNOLOGY learning that are the most critical for the year ahead. Register now. Attend on December 12th. It's free! In this Issue The public cloud plateau Say hello to the text-friendly office chair Microsoft Word: At 30, the word processing package is king, but threats abound How to cloudify your apps Oracle buys sales order automation specialist BigMachines Teradata Turns to the Cloud, Offers Data Warehouse as a Service Pivotal bulks up big data software portfolio Introducing the smart chair SAP's Sikka: Business ByDesign will live on WEBCAST: PC Connection EMC VSPEX Helps Optimize Business Performance Businesses need to be as efficient as possible today and need solutions that will help them move to the cloud when and if they are ready. Learn how EMC's VSPEX solution lets you optimize business performance and accelerate your organization's journey to the cloud. Learn More The public cloud plateau "The enthusiasm for getting everything out of your data center and into the public cloud is starting to wane." That's the assessment from Eric Hanselman, chief analyst at the 451 Research Group based on his latest study on cloud computing usage trends. Read More Say hello to the text-friendly office chair Bringing mobile technologies to work can lead to new aches and pains as workers hunch over small devices and tap at tiny keypads. Veteran furniture maker Steelcase studied changing postures in the workplace and designed Gesture, a new office chair geared for people who juggle multiple devices. Read More Microsoft Word: At 30, the word processing package is king, but threats abound It is 30 years old and dominates the word processing market, but Microsoft Word is now more than ever fending off challenges from the cloud where less expensive and even free alternatives pose new threats, experts say. Read More WEBCAST: Egnyte Consider Hybrid Approach to File-Sharing Security. Scalability. Control. These are just some of the many benefits of enterprise cloud file-sharing that you'll discover in this KnowledgeVault, packed with short videos, white papers and demos. View Now! How to cloudify your apps So you're ready to run your custom-built application in the cloud. Congratulations. But there's one question to you may want to consider before launching it in your private cloud, or Amazon's public cloud: Will it work? Read More Oracle buys sales order automation specialist BigMachines Oracle is hoping to differentiate its CRM (customer relationship management) software from the competition with the acquisition of BigMachines, whose cloud-based system helps salespeople quickly put together and price complex orders. Read More Teradata Turns to the Cloud, Offers Data Warehouse as a Service Aiming to give customers the flexibility to store, process and leverage their data on-premises, in the cloud or in a hybrid environment, Teradata is making its portfolio of platforms and services available via the cloud, including Data Warehouse as a Service, Discovery as a Service and Data Management as a Service. Read More WHITE PAPER: Ipanema Technologies Don't Let App Performance Problems Drag You Down Check out this exclusive IDG-Ipanema survey to learn about the far-reaching impacts of poor application performance, and what you can do about it. Learn More. Pivotal bulks up big data software portfolio While EMC and VMware spinoff Pivotal prepares to launch its While EMC and VMware spinoff Pivotal prepares to launch its [business intelligence PaaS (platform-as-a-service), the new company has also been busy building its portfolio of data mining and analysis software. Read More Introducing the smart chair Do you cocoon when you're texting? Or strunch when you're laptop gazing? Does your back ache from hunching over small electronic devices and tapping at tiny keypads? Read More SAP's Sikka: Business ByDesign will live on SAP will continue to release new versions of its Business ByDesign cloud ERP suite, despite some recent indications to the contrary, according to the vendor's head of development. Read More
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