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Nick Carr: The ways cloud computing will disrupt IT

Nick Carr, author of “The Big Switch” discusses the inevitable transition to utility computing and why IT would be wise to brace itself.

Impact of Cloud Computing on the Server Market

The emergence of Cloud Computing during the recession doubles the threat to server vendors. In cases where hardware investment is deemed critical and necessary, users are looking more and more to Cloud as an alternative to traditional servers, storage, and other hardware. – Saugatuck Reserach

destinationCRM.com: Salesforce.com Expands the Cloud to Sales

note from Melinda: consider this not a sales pitch but a way to understand the implicit value of  “the cloud” for the sales vertical and other areas where managing the content is critical for making the (sales) process more efficient. destinationCRM.com: Salesforce.com Expands the Cloud to Sales. … Two major pieces of news are attached […]

Analytics are the heart of Balancing Innovation and Cost Leadership

Analytics are the heart of Balancing Innovation and Cost Leadership In Your Business.  With ever increasing business drivers and unlimited choices to customers across the globe, you not only need to know what, but why business events are occurring. What is going to happen and how to prepare for the unknown business challenges?  Here, the […]

Enterprise 2.0 Technology Enabler – Hype, Hope or 2010 Mainstream?

With the advent of Web2.0 tools and services such as Blogs, wikis, RRS, social networking, social bookmarking and mashups, the enterprise has more innovative tools than ever for collaboration, knowledge sharing, search, discovery and collective intelligence among distributed workforces, partners and customers.