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In Pictures: 10 Cloud storage and backup services for your small business

The Cloud is an increasingly viable (and inexpensive) storage and backup option for small businesses. Here are 10 services worth a look - and, possibility, your data.

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In Pictures: Top 10 Cloud tools

New tools help IT execs cut Cloud costs, optimise resources, integrate and manage Cloud instances

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In Pictures: 10 Cloud development tools to set you free

These cool Web-based development tools bring coding to the browser

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In Pictures: The best office apps for your iPad, round 5

In the heated competition for native and cloud-based iOS productivity apps, InfoWorld chooses the winners you should own

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News about cloud computing

Article | 22/05/2013 Citrix links cloud-based storage to SharePoint and Azure
Citrix Systems is making its cloud-based storage service ShareFile more Microsoft-friendly with SharePoint integration and the ability to store data o...
Article | 22/05/2013 Salesforce.com aims its customer service, social monitoring apps at governments
Salesforce.com is hoping to set the standard for how government bodies deliver online services to citizens using mobile devices.
Article | 21/05/2013 Yahoo's 1TB of Flickr storage may signal bigger cloud plans
When Flickr announced its 1TB free storage giveaway on Monday, the company said it was offering you enough storage to "take a photo every hour for for...
Article | 21/05/2013 VMware launches network-savvy cloud service
VMware has launched its long-anticipated public infrastructure as a service (IaaS), touting its virtual networking capabilities as a differentiator fr...
Article | 21/05/2013 Amazon Web Services gets FedRAMP certification for US government cloud use
Amazon Web Services has finally received certification under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, which the company said will lower ...

Tutorials about cloud computing

Article | 25/11/2010 Top 5 free Google Apps add-ons for business
Google launched its Apps Marketplace back in March, effectively inviting companies to create business software for the cloud that would sit alongside ...
Article | 11/11/2010 Get 5GB of free cloud-sync storage from SugarSync
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, ...
Article | 28/04/2010 How to: move your business to cloud computing
The Internet has changed the way people do nearly everything--from consuming media to performing research to maintaining relationships to communicatin...

Features about cloud computing

Article | 9/05/2013 What to expect at SAP's Sapphire
SAP's Sapphire conference kicks off next week in Orlando, setting the stage for the company to sell customers on its visions for cloud-based applicati...
Article | 18/04/2013 SAP's first quarter: The key questions
SAP will announce its first-quarter 2013 earnings on Friday, a report that will get heavy scrutiny from company watchers. Here's a look at some of the...
Article | 4/04/2013 Oracle's strategies to get real-world verdict at Collaborate user event
Oracle's sprawling annual OpenWorld conference doesn't kick off until September, but next week the Oracle user group-backed Collaborate event will be ...
Article | 3/04/2013 Marketo IPO may spark suitors, including Salesforce.com
Cloud-based marketing automation vendor Marketo's plans to raise up to $75 million in an initial public offering, which were revealed this week, could...
Article | 2/04/2013 Health-IT early adopters well-poised for big-data advances in clinical medicine
Nearly a decade after research firms predicted major cost savings and clinical benefits from the use of health-IT, adoption rates among U.S. medical p...

Clearing the Clouds for Midmarket Businesses

Cloud computing promises to help midmarket companies reduce cost and complexity in the IT equation – and gain the flexibility and agility they need to thrive. Yet charting a clear course to the cloud isn’t always easy. In this paper, we aim to clear the clouds. We examine different cloud computing models, discuss the types of requirements that each can best address, and consider what midmarket businesses should look for in a cloud solutions provider.
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