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Green IT for Dummies: HP/Freeform Dynamics special edition – available for public download

Green IT for Dummies: HP/Freeform Dynamics special edition Freeform Dynamics and Wiley put the wheels in motion for a green IT for Dummies mini book. Now Hewlett Packard offered to sponsor it and it’s now officially available as an online download.

Forrester Sees a Bright Decade for Cloud Computing

In a new report, the IT researcher says that providers are now finding success selling SaaS subscription applications in Web conferencing, collaboration and IT service management. Previous sales successes were relegated to CRM and human capital management applications. Forrester Research has unearthed more evidence that cloud computing, also known as software as a service, is […]

Free on the Web: MIT putting all scholarly articles on the web

MIT has made its scholarly articles available to the public on the Internet for free.

Slaesforce’s Service Cloud integrates Twitter

Salesforce.com has just announced this extension to its Service Cloud, a tool it released back in January. Service Cloud is built on Salesforce.com’s Force platform and allows customer service people to monitor and manage conversations that are happening about their company on social media such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. When Gmail failed, the idea […]

Salesforce.com Preaches Computing Power for Rent

March 23, 2009 By ASHLEE VANCE SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Ten years ago, Marc Benioff was a visionary, seeing vast potential in selling business software as a service over the Web. Today, he’s just another executive selling so-called cloud computing, the bandwagon du jour in the technology industry. Mr. Benioff, the animated chief executive of […]