• How to protect your intellectual property in the Cloud

  By Stephanie Overby | 07 February, 2012 02:36

  Around this time last year, the cloud computing contract signings were coming fast and furious -- not just for commodity work like IT management or email, but for software and infrastructure closer to the core of corporate value. Not long after that, the calls started to come in to Greg Bell, principal and the Americas service leader for information protection at KPMG.

• Nicira debuts with its SDN baby

  By Jim Duffy | 06 February, 2012 16:28

  One of the most anticipated debuts of a startup company happens today when Nicira, a maker of network virtualization software, comes out of stealth mode.

• Juniper's financial challenges continue

  By Jim Duffy | 28 January, 2012 08:18

  Juniper Networks' challenges are due to timing with new product rollouts and shifts in investments from customers and channel partners.

• Cloud activity to explode in 2012

  By Tom Henderson | 18 January, 2012 16:25

  In testing cloud computing services and observing the growth of cloud activities, we've noticed that there are distinct phases that organizations go through in adopting cloud.

• Cisco sending enterprises to the Cloud

  By Jim Duffy | 13 January, 2012 08:27

  In an effort to accommodate enterprise users looking to implement private and hybrid Clouds, Cisco - in the coming months - will unveil an "integrated" WAN routing system of existing, but enhanced, products.

• Get 5GB of free cloud-sync storage from SugarSync

  By Rick Broida | 11 November, 2010 09:42

  Wouldn't it be cool if you had a "magic" folder on your PC, one that automatically synced its contents with the Web, your other PCs, your cell phone, and other devices?

• Guide: How to sync your PC, smartphone, and tablet

  By Loyd Case | 29 September, 2011 23:55

  A few years ago businesspeople carried a laptop on the road, used a desktop PC in the office, and worked on another PC at home. Maybe they had a BlackBerry, too--but only if they were real big shots.

• Cloud security: how to protect your data

  By CSO staff | 14 June, 2011 21:17

  To use Cloud computing securely requires companies to know where their data is stored and who has access to it. Ironically, the reason Cloud is so popular is because organisations don't want to worry about these details.

  So can the issue be solved by adhering to standards? Increasing legislation? Maybe we need a global technical disaster to ‘sober up’ an industry drunk on the power of Moore's Law.

• Google Apps vs Microsoft BPOS, Office 365 - Part 3

  By James Hutchinson | 30 March, 2011 07:00

  The shortfalls of Google Apps will likely resonate with the inordinate amount of Microsoft shops in the industry. Years of investment in SharePoint developers, Exchange support teams and business processes built around the fickle aspects of Microsoft Office and its ribbon interface cannot be discarded easily. That’s ultimately where Microsoft’s strength is likely to reside. No matter when its Office 365 bundle is released, and despite numerous attempts to forge links between legacy applications and Google Apps, the complexity of a migration for a large organisation would likely be a headache most CIOs are eager to avoid. At least, that can be said for Coca Cola Amatil CIO, Barry Simpson.

• Google Apps vs Microsoft BPOS, Office 365 - Part 2

  By James Hutchinson | 29 March, 2011 07:00

  Ultimately, some of the problems facing Microsoft’s Cloud strategy are those affecting many of its long-standing product suites. “Clearly Microsoft is trying to back-solve that problem to the legacy product set and clearly that’s problematic,” AAPT’s chief operating officer and effective CIO, David Yuile, says.

• Google Apps vs Microsoft BPOS, Office 365 - Part 1

  By James Hutchinson | 28 March, 2011 07:00

  IT behemoths, Microsoft and Google, have for years been embroiled in battles over who would control the move by different industries to the Cloud. Since at least 2007, Australian universities and education authorities eager to outsource their email have turned to either provider in lieu of limited competition from the market. For the next battle, however, the stakes are higher. Both Google and Microsoft are betting all of their chips on a sector that is likely to prove much more lucrative than any before it: Enterprise.

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