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Chromebook: Are You Really Ready to Marry Google?

It's not a laptop. It's not a netbook. Exactly what is a mobile device based on Google's Chrome OS? Bill Snyder breaks down the pros and cons of this cloud-minded groundbreaker.n

16 May 2011 5 mins

Cloud Computing Mobile Small and Medium Business

Star Union Dai-ichi Life Places Its Bets On Cloud Platform

With the I.R.D.A breathing down heavily on Star Union Dai-ichi Life Insurance to set up a DisasteR recovery site, former Head-I.T., Harnath Babu chose a path only a handful of his peers would be willing to take: Go public cloud.

16 May 2011 7 mins

Business Energy Industry Financial Services Industry

BSES Wins Over Customers With CRM

When K.B. Singh, VP-I.T., BSES, introduced IT-driven measures to an ailing power utility, little did he know the size of the can of worms he was opening.

16 May 2011 7 mins

Business CIO Energy Industry

K. C. Kapoor Gives India its First-Ever Online Voting Platform

How Gujarat's State Election Commission gave India its first-ever online voting platform and increased voter turnout by almost 20 percent.

16 May 2011 6 mins

Authentication Construction and Engineering Industry Small and Medium Business

How Uflex De-risked a Global ERP amidst Political Instability and Cyclones

A decision to centralize their datacenter helped Uflex leverage India's low costs and build its datacenter at one-fourth the cost the company would have incurred otherwise.

13 May 2011 3 mins

Broadband Business Government

Microsoft Office Alternatives: Many are Trying, Few are Buying

Enterprises are intrigued by Office alternatives such as Google Apps, Zoho and OpenOffice.org, but not as a replacement for Microsoft's cash cow. At least not yet, writes Forrester.

12 May 2011 4 mins

Microsoft Office Office Suites Social Networking Apps

Disaster Recovery is Everyone’s Job

I was discussing my article on the Amazon EC2 Cloud failure, and a related blog (as well as reaction from the Twittersphere) with my editor, and the issue came up of cloud-related disaster recovery falling under the responsibility of IT. Having cover

11 May 2011 2 mins

Cloud Computing Disaster Recovery

Cloud CIO: Like Open Source, Cloud Hides in Plain Sight

Open source caused many embarrassing conversations for CIOs: A CIO would say we have no open source software -- then walk the halls and find it in use. This same scenario is playing out with cloud services, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden.

11 May 2011 7 mins

Cloud Computing Virtualization

Microsoft-Skype Deal: Three Ways It Benefits Enterprises

Microsoft bought Skype to beef up its consumer products and keep Google at bay. However, the union will help enterprise users in less obvious ways as Skype becomes a key Microsoft weapon in "the consumerization of IT."

11 May 2011 3 mins

Small and Medium Business Smartphones Social Networking Apps

The Trouble with Coding Across the Clouds, Part 2

Even the best cloud applications offer only one native development language for business logic. What if you really need to leverage software assets in another language? It's not as simple as just using another cloud's code.

10 May 2011 5 mins

Cloud Computing Data Center

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