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Gartner urges hype caution over Cloud Computing

Business Cloud Summit 2009 - opportunity, innovation and the bottom line

Business Cloud Summit 2009: a conference from BusinessCloud9 Sift Media, publisher of BusinessCloud9, is pleased to announce the inaugural Business Cl...

SuccessFactors beefs up Talent offering

SuccessFactors has released what it's calling its biggest product update of the year in the form of SuccessFactors Business Performance Accelerators, ...

Cloud Computing replaces infrastructure upgrades for CIOs

With the recession eating away at IT budgets, a third of large UK companies are delaying infrastructure upgrades and software refreshes and turning to...

Top Ten Cloud Predictions for 2009 - by Appirio

"This year Cloud Computing made the leap from an interesting proposition to a viable option for even the largest of enterprises,” says Appirio co-fo...

CIOs need to face up to the challenge of The Cloud

Cloud Computing is in danger of being over-hyped, reckons research firm Ovum (www.ovum.com), but CIOs need to avoid being taken in by critics and real...

Workday widens its net

Workday, the SaaS successor to PeopleSoft set up by that firm's founder Dave Duffield, has released the latest upgrade to its  human resources applic...

Omniture pitches software at iPhone and Google Android

Following the release of a new mobile application for SiteCatalyst designed to work on mobile devices running Google Android, Omniture now extending S...

Cloud Computing is MAD - Karl Deacon, UK CTO, Capgemini Outsourcing Services

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Could Cloud computing be MAD?  It all has its roots in teaching of historical analysis for the purposes of forecasting what’s to come.   ...

CRM in The Cloud set to increase - Surya Mukherjee, Datamonitor

The on-demand CRM model has enjoyed a good year, bringing double digit growth rates for vendors and maintaining its status as the poster-child for alt...

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Business Cloud Summit 2009

In the latest of our series of videos from the Business Cloud Summit 09, we talk to customers on the frontline of the Cloud.

View from the Cloud: is email dead for business?

Leading Cloud Computing industry figures offers their unique viewpoint on topical and strategic issues.

In this article Cameron  Nouri, Email & Apps Evangelist at Rackspace suggests that Cloud Computing alters the role of email in business.

"Email is clearly an important tool for communication, but it is just part of the infrastructure and not part of the company’s IP,  which drives market share and delivers competitive edge. This means email needs to adapt to businesses’ requirements, not  the other way around. As Cloud Computing become more widespread, we are already seeing a shift in how email is managed."   Read more.