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Just how big Amazon Web Services is vs. cloud rivals
Amazon.com came out with its quarterly earnings last week and Technology Business Research analyst Jillian Mirandi crunched the numbers of how much of a lead AWS has on its competitors in the public cloud market. The numbers are striking. Read More

RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SAP

The Keys To Boosting PSO Success
Professional services organizations (PSOs) strive to help their clients' businesses run more smoothly. But what are they doing to make their own businesses run more efficiently? One method for success with proven results: deploying technology, from vendors such as SAP, that delivers both internal efficiency and external results. Learn how to deliver a higher percentage of on-time, on-budget project completions, boost revenue and customer retention, and ultimately improve profit margins.

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Building Tomorrow's Infrastructure
Listen to this podcast to discover how Crider Foods worked with PC Connection to update their IT infrastructure, while maintaining compliance and control. PC Connection's experts helped Crider deploy Cisco UCS with Intel® Xeon® processors as part of their total data center overhaul. Learn More

Relics of Technology
Where nostalgia and curiosity collide: One photographers quest to capture the beauty in old tech. Read More

New IE zero-day first to leave Windows XP exposed, unprotected
Microsoft is trying to gauge the seriousness of a zero-day flaw in all Internet Explorer browsers from versions 6 through 11 and whether it warrants issuing an out-of-band fix before May's Patch Tuesday. Read More

INSIDER

Healthcare IT pros laud security, privacy tools
Healthcare IT spending is projected to hit $34.5 billion in North America this year as organizations wrestle with healthcare reform, adoption of electronic records, and the proliferation of digital and wireless medical devices. Read More

How the FCC's net neutrality ruling could make piracy cool again
Streaming content over the internet has made online piracy irrelevant for a lot of people. Services like Netflix and Spotify are easier to navigate than illegal file-sharing services for most users, and they can use them without worrying about low-quality files, viruses, or attracting the attention of law enforcement. Read More

IBM puts all its cloud services in one place
IBM has assembled a vast array of hosted cloud services, and now it has somewhere to show them off. Read More

Skype group video calls finally free on Windows, Mac desktops and Xbox
Microsoft is now letting Skype users make group video calls for free via PCs, Macs and the Xbox. Read More

New products of the week 04.28.14
Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as IBM and Dell Read More

Linux to the rescue! How Ubuntu can help a computer in distress
This may sound like sacrilege, but it's not: Ubuntu Linux can be useful even if you're a hardcore Windows user. Read More

Michael Dell: On SDNs and networking for the masses
Dell is synonymous with home and business PCs, and data center servers. Yet Dell also has an ambitious software-defined networking activity underway called the Open Networking Initiative, where it partners with SDN software companies like Cumulus Networks and Big Switch Networks to bundle operating systems and applications on Dell switches. The Big Switch deal was announced last week, and Dell Founder and CEO Michael Dell found time to provide Network World Managing Editor Jim Duffy with some perspective on that partnership, and on Dell's overall networking and Open Networking Initiative. Read More

10 users IT hates to support
From the paranoid to the pathological, here are 10 user 'personalities' certain to drive any IT pro crazy Read More

How Lord & Taylor Integrates Print Ads with Mobile Commerce
Lord & Taylor's mobile app lets customers scan photos in print ads and buy the items with their smartphones, without ever going to the retailer's website. Read More

Cisco, Akamai team to boost branch performance
Cisco and Akamai this week announced a collaboration to boost application performance for branch office sites. Read More

iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending April 25
Aesthetics reared its ugly, or beautiful (depending on your side of the debate), head in the iOSphere this week, as commentarians contemplated the question of whether real iPhones have curves. Read More

SLIDESHOWS

Fave Raves: 33 tech pros share their favorite IT products

It takes many tools to keep IT systems running smoothly, and tech pros have their personal favorites. What made the cut?

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