Tuesday, April 13, 2010

IT News HeadLines (TechWeb) 13/04/2010



With Rewrite, Google Docs Takes Microsoft Office Head On
Google's strategy marks a huge bet on real-time collaboration and online-only software.
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Palm Shares Soar On Buyout Report
With Pre sales falling short of expectations, Palm may be looking for a buyer or strategic partner.
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Eucalyptus, GroundWork As Allies: Cloud Stack Coming?
Eucalyptus Systems, the supplier of open source APIs that are Amazon EC2 compatible, has teamed up with GroundWork, a supplier of data center systems management.
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Bank of America Exec Maps Cloud Puzzle
Architect Andy Brown says biggest enterprise challenge will be blending on-premise, private and public clouds.
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Practical Analysis: Why There's No Enterprise 'App For That'
Smartphones won't take off as true enterprise devices (beyond e-mail) until companies start investing in security.
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CIO Profiles: Randall C. Poppell, CIO Of UniGroup
When it comes to your career, remember that nothing lasts forever, Poppell advises.
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The Visibility Factor: Assessing Cloud Risk
There's a storm of change brewing. For IT, the challenge is to guide our organizations to a safe balance.
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How Do Google, Microsoft Clouds Stack Up?
We weigh reality against rhetoric as Microsoft looks to dissuade customers from experimenting with, let alone adopting, Google Apps.
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Virtualization And Your BC/DR Plan
Disaster recovery and business continuity are made easier by virtualization, but cost and complexity are holding back users.
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The Visibility Factor: Assessing Cloud Risk
There's a storm of change brewing. For IT, the challenge is to guide our organizations to a safe balance.
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What Genentech CIO Likes About Google Docs
It meets a need for quick-and-easy collaboration, says CIO Todd Pierce. It's not for regulated content, though.
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Google Apps Refresh Sets Up Deathmatch With Microsoft
The battle for the collaborative backbone behind Google Apps versus Microsoft's SharePoint and Exchange is on, and Google is going for Microsoft's jugular.
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Microsoft Plans To Beat Google In The Cloud
It will keep packaging a mix of apps to meet companies collaboration demands.
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Fight Off Forgery Attacks
Use ASP.NET MVC to fend off intruders.
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Down To Business: Google Changes Rules Of Productivity Race
Technology vendors have focused on collaboration as the next productivity revolution. Have they been going about it all wrong?
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Virtualization And Your BC/DR Plan
Disaster recovery and business continuity are made easier by virtualization, but cost and complexity are holding back users.
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Cloud Computing Differences Between U.S. And Europe
The trans-Atlantic 451 Group has its eye on how cloud computing is developing in Europe and the rest of the world as well as the U.S.
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Cover-All Technologies Acquires Moore Stephens Business Solutions
The acquisition of the New York-based provider of business intelligence and advanced analytics solutions to the insurance industry gives Cover-All an entree into the business intelligence marketplace.
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Cisco Updates Data Center 3.0: New Switches And Architecture
Cisco has announced new products for its Data Center 3.0 program. The new products and features continue to enhance Cisco UCS platform with new servers and an improved interconnect technology, FEX Link, that offers increased capacity and redundancy.
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SAS Launches Social Media Analytics
Analysis of positive and negative Twitter, Facebook sentiment about a bank can be integrated with CRM and other internal software.
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Options IT Optimizes Low Latency Access For European Trading Venues
Options IT has completed the six-month optimization project of its Options PIPE Velocity market connectivity service to provide lowest-latency access to the major European trading venues.
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Survey: BI Customers Are Happy... to a Point
Most business intelligence buyers would recommend their software to others, but contracts, integration and tech support are sore points.
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Thrivent Implements Insurance Technologies' ForeSight POS Software
The implementation has enabled Thrivent to deploy its first variable annuity sales and marketing system, resulting increased market share among variable annuity providers, according to Insurance Technologies.
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BankAtlantic Uses Data Masking to Protect Sensitive Information
Software replaces private date with "fictitional, usable" data.
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Alpine Bank Deploys Diebold Mobile Banking
Colorado financial institution sees offering customers mobile banking services without requiring an online banking account as a competitive advantage.
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