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Ellison: Next version of Oracle database set for December or January release
By Chris Kanaracus | 31 May, 2012 20:59The next version of Oracle's database will be released in either December or January, CEO Larry Ellison said during an onstage interview at the AllThingsD conference in London.
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Salesforce.com's Desk.com service adding multilingual support
By Chris Kanaracus | 31 May, 2012 20:19Salesforce.com's Desk.com service is about to add multilingual support to the cloud-based help-desk software, the company said Thursday.
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Microsoft launches Office 365 edition for US government customers
By Juan Carlos Perez | 30 May, 2012 19:13Microsoft has released a government-specific edition of its Office 365 cloud-based email and collaboration suite that offers U.S. public-sector customers a cordoned-off data center infrastructure just for them.
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Oracle prepares to enter PaaS wars
By Chris Kanaracus | 29 May, 2012 20:59Oracle may lay out how it plans to become a player in the burgeoning PaaS (platform as a service) market next week during a webcast event featuring CEO Larry Ellison and co-president Mark Hurd.
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Telco Watch: Court ruling destructive for Cloud computing?
By Spandas Lui | 28 May, 2012 10:53When Optus TV Now was launched in July 2011, the telco probably didn’t expect to withdraw the service less than a year later. It probably didn’t predict the court case over Optus TV Now would have broader ramifications for the Cloud computing industry.
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Quickbooks Online outage leaves some customers in sour mood
By Chris Kanaracus | 25 May, 2012 17:12Intuit's Quickbooks Online service suffered an outage this week that left "a small subset" of customers unable to access their data, but the company says the problems with the on-demand accounting software have now been fixed.
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Cisco all but kills Cius tablet computer
By Jim Duffy | 25 May, 2012 15:29Cisco is slowly killing off its Cius business tablet less than a year after it started shipping.
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Customisable Cloud SLAs on the way, researchers predict
By Brandon Butler | 24 May, 2012 20:30Service-level agreements and legal standards for Cloud offerings will become more customised to individual customers and vertical industries as the cloud market continues to mature and providers look for ways to differentiate their offerings, researchers at the University of London predict.
Interviews about cloud computing-
RSA: The game changer
By Patrick Budmar | 06 March, 2012 15:03RSA's David Walter talk about the synergy between RSA and Archer, as well as the road ahead
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SNAPSHOT: The name game
By Patrick Budmar | 07 November, 2011 11:16What’s in a name? Plenty, according to Ingres A/NZ and APAC general manager, Jason Leonidas
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INSIDE STORY: Steering towards new business strategies
By Julia Talevski | 27 July, 2011 14:19Distributor IPL Communications held a thought leadership event earlier this year specifically targeting 170 dealers that were a mix between telco and system integrators. This was underscored by the need to change. Julia Talevski sat down with IPL general manager, Paul Scanlan, and managing director, Stead Denton.
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PROFILE: Working towards global ICT
By Patrick Budmar | 28 July, 2011 10:27While Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) has been in the Australian market for several years, the company has recently found itself in the spotlight following a series of high profile acquisitions. ARN spoke to NTT’s Australian managing director and CEO, Yoshimasa Hashimoto, about its local plans.<
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PROFILE: Harnessing the power of the hybrid cloud and beyond
By Patrick Budmar | 21 June, 2011 11:40With the virtualisation needs of Australian and New Zealand companies continually expanding, VMware Australia has stepped up to meet ITS ever growing expectations through the cloud. ARN spoke to VMware Australia Vice-President and Managing Director, Duncan Bennet, about his recent promotion, making virtualisation work and the journey to the cloud.
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Strategy's Limits: A chat with Ernest von Simson
By Nancy Weil | 03 August, 2010 03:59As co-founder of The Research Board, an exclusive, IT-focused think tank established in 1970, Ernest von Simson watched time and again as corporate leaders took their companies through change and crises over three decades. During those years, he came to believe that steadfastness is the most vital leadership characteristic for success, as he demonstrates in his new book, "The Limits of Strategy: Lessons in Leadership from the Computer Industry".
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Weinman: Biz, ecosystem are keys to cloud evolution
By Hyuna Kim | 17 March, 2010 04:43These days, cloud computing may be the hottest topic in IT industry as many firms are planning to unleash cloud service or already starting to deploy cloud service.
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Chambers part 3: Proprietary and the cloud
By John Gallant | 15 March, 2010 07:35In the third and final part of an in-depth interview with John Gallant, Scot Finnie, and Editor-in-Chief Eric Knorr, Cisco’s John Chambers discusses the proprietary issue and cloud computing opportunities.
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Opinion: IT innovation won't be slowed by Cloud concerns
By Bernard Golden | 31 May, 2012 15:12Those who continue to deem the Cloud "rogue IT" fail to see the forest for the trees, according to Bernard Golden. Institutions dead set in their ways should prepare to see smaller, more innovative firms embrace the cloud and race past them.
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Is the Cloud really ready for prime time?
By Brandon Butler | 31 May, 2012 15:44Coupa, a 2006 startup that helps more than 200 customer companies manage purchasing and procurement, doesn't own any IT infrastructure - it is run completely from the Amazon Web Service Cloud.
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Disaster recovery: Save the day
By Patrick Budmar | 28 May, 2012 11:392011 was a bad year for natural disasters. Several nations were rocked either by earthquakes, tidal waves, or floods. There was even a nuclear accident. But has the tumultuous year convinced businesses to bolster their disaster recovery?
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Tech Watch: Who watches the datacentre?
By Patrick Budmar | 28 May, 2012 10:58The proliferation of datacentres around the world has made the Cloud not only accessible, but also affordable in the process. However, the issue of data sovereignty, the location of where the data is stored, has been an inhibitor.
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CISCO GLOBAL PARTNER SUMMIT 2012: Final wrap - In it to win it
By Hafizah Osman | 28 May, 2012 08:37The message to Cisco’s partners was simple: In it to win it.
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WWDC 2012 forecast: Cloudy with a chance of new MacBooks
By Ian Paul | 16 May, 2012 04:16Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference is less than one month away, and speculation is high about whether Apple will announce new iCloud features, refreshed MacBook Pros, overhauled versions of iOS and OS X and maybe even a new smartphone during the conference.
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The IT paradox: A diminished role in technology, but greater clout in the business
By Nicholas D. Evans | 08 May, 2012 00:08There is a paradox in the technology that IT employs and deploys. As it becomes easier to use and simpler to manage, it is actually increasing in complexity. And there is a paradox within this paradox concerning how IT relates to the business. More on that in a bit.
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From IT to ET: Cloud, consumerisation, and the next wave of IT transformation
By Johna Till Johnson | 23 April, 2012 21:32IT as we know it is over.
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