International Business Times - 11 Oct - Mobile and cloud computing technology will dominate enterprises as these two emerge as the most in-demand platforms for software application development and IT delivery over the next five years, according to a survey by IBM.

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Forbes - 10 Oct - Over the past year cloud computing has boomed into a $16.5 billion market. Revenue is projected to grow at an annual rate of 27% over the next four years. Two of the many advantages businesses see in cloud computing are the ability to cut costs and to reduce energy consumption by limiting in-house data center operations.

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Google Small Business Blog - 7 Oct - A far off reality only a few years ago, today cloud computing has become mainstream. However, many small business owners we meet are still unclear about what cloud computing is and, more importantly, how it can benefit their business. If you're in this camp, you're not alone. A recent survey of European IT Heads by Portio Research found that 56% were not familiar with cloud computing.

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Forbes - 7 Oct - Over the past month, even the strongest cloud computing names like VMWare (VMW) and Salesforce.com (CRM) have not acted well at all. Ever since the bearish Barron’s article published in early September, VMW has been very choppy. When you have a tech stock trading at a ridiculously high multiple and the chart starts to get very choppy, it’s time to head for the exits before the music stops.

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ZDNet - 7 Oct - ‘The business never really cared what it was running on anyway — it just cares about results. That means IT isn’t off the hook at all when it comes to EA’

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SC Magazine - 4 Oct - Cloud computing, the increasing use of mobile devices and the merging of home and work life have been identified as being among the top ten most likely threat scenarios that organisations may face in the future.

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SMR - 5 Oct - Enterprises and managed service providers (MSPs) are facing a major shift in IT as cloud computing innovation drives quicker and more efficient delivery of business services. To help companies get to the cloud fast, CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) offers a unique, revolutionary, application-centric approach with CA 3Tera® AppLogic®, its turnkey cloud computing platform.

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Internet Evolution - 5 Oct - Anyone who has been in the tech industry a while knows that it is always looking for the next best thing and willing to assign a catchy term to encapsulate the new trend or technological innovation.

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TMCnet - 4 Oct - Mobile phone company Samsung Telecommunications America or “Samsung (News - Alert) Mobile” k the expansion of its enterprise mobility capabilities with the integration of the Samsung Mobile Cloud Center or “SMCC.”

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Phone+ - 1 Oct - CA has announced a turnkey cloud computing platform for companies looking to deploy a cloud environment quickly and easily.

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NetworkWorld - 1 Oct - Last week I discussed how cloud computing resembles open source in that adoption of both has been driven bottom-up by developers. (See The Truth About What Runs on Amazon. ) I had an opportunity to revisit this topic at length this week when I was invited to moderate a panel at the GigaOm Bunker Series on the topic of open source in the enterprise.

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PC World - 30 Sep - You want to embrace cloud computing because it makes your IT operations leaner and less expensive. But your understanding of cloud security hasn't advanced much in the last year, so you have to be cautious.

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Connected Planet - 30 Sep - There are few more hyped areas in telecom these days than mobile and the cloud. Mobility takes communications and computing devices and makes them always accessible. The cloud takes IT infrastructure and makes it (at least theoretically) endlessly scalable and flexible. So it was interesting to note the degree to which Google CEO Eric Schmidt stressed the intersection of these two worlds as the place where the real magic – and opportunity – happens in the technology future.

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Datamation - 30 Sep - Despite a dismal economy, analysts continue to be bullish on cloud computing. A few recent studies project continued momentum for cloud computing, which according to IDC, should soon “reach 12% of the size of traditional IT product spending, [while representing] over 25% of the net-new growth in traditional IT products.” IDC predicts that worldwide revenue from public IT cloud services, which exceeded $16 billion in 2009, will grow to nearly $56 billion in 2014.

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ITProPortal - 28 Sep - Mobile network provider Orange has entered in to a deal with three other business leaders to offer cloud computing services to its enterprise clients.

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ZDNet - 26 Sep - Mobile operating system (OS) makers Microsoft and Google may be contemplating plans to enforce a standard user interface (UI) for phonemakers that deploy their platforms, but such efforts will likely be difficult to impose across the industry, an analyst notes.

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SearchCloudComputing - 24 Sep - Microsoft has announced Project Hawaii, an attempt to marry cloud services and Windows mobile devices. While it might seem like a "no duh" idea, the truth is that mobile apps are mostly served off regular old IT infrastructure, although that infrastructure is a prime use case for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and most mobile developers probably have a foot in Amazon Web Services or something similar.

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Forbes - 22 Sep - "The cloud and Web-aware mobile operating systems will converge, and consumers will benefit."
Today the two biggest trends in the technology industry--the cloud and mobility--are converging. The platform they are combining to create will infuse more intelligence into the world around us and lower the barriers to entry into the global economy. More people will have more access to more information than ever before.

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eWeek - 21 Sep - HP is now offering a cloud-based mobile management system to help IT managers keep track of employees’ smartphones, notebooks and other wireless devices.

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Blackweb - 20 Sep - Switching to Google Apps can be a very productive step for a business. They take care of a lot of the heavy-lifting usually necessary for creating, sharing, and storing documents as well as collaboration and being productive as a company. One area that has always been in question is security. Google Apps makes things easier, but “organizations looking to secure their information beyond a password have faced costs and complexities that prevented many of them from using stronger security technologies.” This changes today as Google announces Two-step verification.

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The New York Times - 20 Sep - Spain, whose economy has been among the hardest hit by the financial crisis, is seen by many technology experts as fertile ground for developing cloud computing, with its potential to cut fixed costs. Fifty percent of the country’s gross domestic product and 43 percent of Spanish jobs are in services, which is the area “best positioned to lead the migration to the cloud,” according to a study published in May by the Bankinter Foundation of Innovation and consultants from Accenture.

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The New York Times - 19 Sep - In the world of ideas, cloud computing has the potential to revolutionize the way people work. By bundling the processing power of thousands of computer servers, a company, for example, could allow two employees from different countries who speak different languages to communicate directly by phone, using voice recognition software to process what is being said and translation programs to interpret it into another language.

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TechRepublic - 17 Sep - Microsoft representatives — all the way up to Steve Ballmer — have repeated on many occasions the mantra that the company is “all in” with the cloud. Microsoft likes that vow so much that it even made it into a logo for its cloud services.

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TMC.net - 17 Sep - Verizon's new cloud computing which offers computing as a service for small and medium-sized businesses “SMB,” will now aid in boosting bandwidth, adding more servers and turning up additional storage capacity for meeting the changing business needs quickly.

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Solutions for the Cloud - 16 Sep - As the world moves from feature phones to smartphones, more personal data will be stored locally or available through the cloud on the handheld we tote everywhere.

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EnterpriseMobileToday - 16 Sep - One drawback with the iPad as a business tool is its idiosyncratic, sometimes cumbersome handling of user data. But as with most iPad shortcomings, third-party apps can go at least some way to mitigating them.

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AJ-IT - 15 Sep - HTC has just released its Desire Z and Desire HD. Both phones sports Android 2.2 and pumped-up version of its UI, HTC Sense. Thecompany has introduced new e-bookstore feature, which is powered by Kobo. The new Sense also offer customized, instant mapping via its new service HTC Locations. The new feature is expected to be faster as there is no need to download mapping data. You can also try to retrieve your lost or stolen phone by making it ring remotely. Alternatively, you can pinpoint its location on the map.

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ZDNet - 14 Sep - Cloud computing, mobile device proliferation, and highly efficient data centers are all aligning to make it clear that the deeper and flexible client platform support from back-end servers will become more the norm and less the exception over time.

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Top Tech News - 13 Sep - Salesforce.com launched Chatter in June and reports positive enterprise feedback, with nearly 20,000 companies deploying the platform. Salesforce.com Chatter Mobile apps for BlackBerry, iPad, iPhone and the new iPod touch will come to market later in 2010. Chatter Mobile for Android devices should roll out in the first half of 2011.

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Computerworld - 13 Sep - In the time it takes to get a cup of coffee, any one of the hundreds of engineers and developers at mobile computing chip-maker Qualcomm Inc. can provision himself a new server -- one that's fully configured with compute, storage, networking, middleware and other resources. "You can get something provisioned within 15 minutes," says Matthew Clark, senior director of IT.

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ebizQ - 12 Sep - As we get into more complex cloud computing solutions, the need for governance is back on the radar screen.

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International Business Times - 9 Sep - Salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud computing company, on Wednesday said it has launched Chatter Mobile for Apple’s iPad, iPhone and new iPod Touch, Google Android and Research in Motion’s BlackBerry devices that will help empower employees with social, mobile and real-time collaboration.

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PC World - 9 Sep - With a new range of hardware announced Thursday, Dell's is targeting high-performance and cloud computing environments that share similar hyperscale characteristics.

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PC World - 7 Sep - Google may be the first place people turn to for Web search, but the head of eBay's mobile efforts, Steve Yankovich, hopes to make eBay the first place that people look on their phones when searching for a product to buy.

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CTOEdge - 7 Sep - Leapfactor, an upstart enterprise mobility company based in Silicon Valley, understands the dilemma companies – especially in the enterprise – face when upgrading or adopting new technologies. In particular, Leapfactor understands the pain points a company has in mobilizing its enterprise applications for an on-the-go employee base. So it has developed a cloud-based platform that companies can use to mobilize any business application or process, eliminating the need for infrastructure upgrades or complex integration.

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InformationWeek - 7 Sep - During the IFA trade show on Monday, LG announced that its forthcoming Windows Phone 7 devices will be called Optimus 7 (I guess Optimus Prime was taken?). LG didn't announce any specific devices, but shared details on what we can expect from its new Microsoft-powered smartphones.

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AllThingsCRM - 7 Sep - Many companies are trying to improve their daily operations with environmentally friendly strategies and green products. Reducing paper usage, cutting back on energy consumption, and allowing employees to work remotely or telecommute are all ways to do that—and each of these can be achieved by migrating your software and data storage to a cloud-, or Internet-, based system.

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CIO Update - 7 Sep - IBM is looking to change everything about the U.S. Open tennis tournament -- the way fans get information, the way networks get video streams and data graphics, and even the way the pros analyze their own games.

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Investors Guide - 7 Sep - Microsoft, the tech juggernaut that owned the past two decades of personal computing, faces an uncertain future with naysayers left and right claiming that it has been starved out by the siege placed upon it by Apple and Google. Pundits claim that Microsoft has become IBM in the twilight years of its growth, a lumbering company too diversified for its own good and falling behind the tech curve that it had commanded for years.

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Formtek Blog - 7 Sep - Cloud-based application vendors are increasingly targeting small companies (1-99 employees) and many small companies have signed up, primarily for reasons of cheaper cost and greater agility.   But there are also very many small companies that still think of themselves as too small to be able to adopt hosted services.  The perception is that SaaS and cloud-based computing is something that requires special expertise which they do not have or that cloud-based computing is unaffordable and better suited for much larger companies.

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SeekBroadband - 6 Sep - As the London Tube Strike looms, Cloud computing companies say that organisations need to find alternatives such as working from home for their employees.

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UNIX Blog - 6 Sep - All internet users should be familiar with cloud computing. Anyone that uses a web-based e-mail service (think Gmail or Hotmail or Yahoo!), or manages a social networking profile (such as Facebook or Twitter) should be familiar with the cloud computing concept.

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ReadWriteCloud - 4 Sep - German authorities have recently expressed skepticism about cloud computing and the potential it has for breaking data protection laws. According to the Information Law Group, there is no imminent danger of a European crackdown but legal experts are advising international companies to address the potential concerns in their planning and operations.

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International Business Times - 3 Sep - Smartphones are stealing the thunder from laptops, as they become capable of offering similar user experience as a laptop. Transitioning of the power of a laptop to the palm is leading to the demise of the erstwhile companion, as revealed by a glut of Android-based, iPhone, BlackBerry and Palm smartphones.

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Forbes - 3 Sep - In the last few years workforce mobility has gone from being a convenience to a mission critical corporate enabler. At the same time cloud computing is hitting the mainstream and revolutionizing how enterprise IT delivers services to the business. Both technologies are reshaping how business gets done. But where they converge presents opportunities as well as risks. Getting this convergence right will make the difference between companies that capitalize on the opportunity and those that fail.

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CIO - 1 Sep - Look at where technology is going, or where it’s dragging us, and you see two unstoppable forces that, if mismanaged, will send problems rippling through corporate IT infrastructure for years: Cloud and mobile computing.

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SFGate - 1 Sep - Are these technologies reshaping their business landscapes yet? Does the hype come close to matching reality? Is this trendy trio as top of mind as surveys and pundits claim?

Universally, CIOs say "Yes" to all of the above.

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Computerworld - 1 Sep - I came back from my summer break to an avalanche of cloud computing facts and figures in my inbox -- most recently CRN predicting that SMB spending on cloud computing would reach $100B by 2014. There are dozens of cloud computing forecasts and predictions out there (Reuven Cohen of Enomaly does a fantastic roundup on his blog), but its sometimes a challenge to figure out what they all actually mean.

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Information Week - 1 Sep - Wyse, a market leader in thin clients, is offering Wyse PocketCloud to allow smartphone users to access their PC, a remote desktop, or a virtualized desktop through their mobile phones. The technique appears to be catching on: PocketCloud is one of the top 10 selling Apple iTunes App Store applications for mobile professionals, having been downloaded 110,000 times.

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