Nationwide Insurance talked up its enterprise collaboration systems at last week's SharePoint Conference,offering a glimpse into a best-of-breed strategy that is becoming everbmore popular. Nationwide,which uses IBM's Lotus Notes for ...
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Global revenue for platform as a service(PaaS)will grow consistently for five years from 2012 to reach$2.9bn in 2016,up from$900m in 2011,according to research firm Gartner. But as the platform-as-a-service delivery model grows,it will ...
Network equipment supplier Cisco is buying US cloud networking firm Meraki in a$1.2bn deal. Cisco,which is keen to raise its profile in cloud computing,said the acquisition will help accelerate its evolution to software-centric offerings ...
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IDG News Service-Cisco said Sunday it intends to acquire Meraki,a vendor of technology for cloud based management of wireless LAN,security appliances,and mobile devices for US$1.2 billion in cash and retention-based incentives. The ...
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SAP has introduced its first cloud-based financial application for the enterprise, which provides real-time data based on the company's Hana in-memory database system. The product is part of SAP's wider One Cloud strategy, which brings ...
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Web content is great,when you don't mind visiting a multitude of Web sites in order to peruse all that you want to see.Wouldn't it be great if you could grab the content you wanted to read and put it in one place,almost like a virtual ...
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SAP is tying the HANA in-memory database to its CRM (customer relationship management) software and other applications, creating a package that will "allow organizations to revolutionize the way they engage with their customers," the ...
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SAP on Tuesday is expected to showcase how it will tie together its business applications with the cloud-based business network it gained through the acquisition of Ariba during the Sapphire and Tech Ed conferences in Madrid. The Ariba ...
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"I don't think IT realizes how much the way we live life as individuals has completely permeated the enterprise,"says Margaret Dawson,vice president of product management at Symform."This is happening whether you want it to or not." ...
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Internet and payments veteran joins the leader in receivables automation for small business DENVER, CO, November 13, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- PaySimple, the leading provider of cloud-based automated payments and receivables solutions ...
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SAP is urging businesses to rethink core business values to become more consumer-centric using mobile, social, cloud and business intelligence (BI). Addressing delegates via a video link at the opening of SAP TechEd Madrid, Bill ...
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Nearly a quarter of worldwide internet users are still running outdated browsers, creating huge gaps in online security, a study has revealed. Out of a random sample of 10 million customers, security firm Kaspersky found 23% were using ...
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Enterprise mission-critical applications and workloads are rising, but IT executives are still not confident about running them on public cloud platforms, according to research firm IDC. Mission-critical systems remain at the core of the ...
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Analysts predict that cloud computing will play a larger role in mobility and consumerization of IT, Windows Phone and Android tablet sales will grow and there will more hot-desking in large organisations in 2013. IDC head of research ...
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Citrix Systems and NetApp have jointly developed a software and hardware package optimized for Citrix's ShareFile with StorageZones. ShareFile with StorageZones is Citrix's enterprise-friendly answer to cloud-based file storage and ...
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