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Why We Chose Exchange Online, Not Google Apps

How did Microsoft win over the City of Winston-Salem, North Carolina for an Office 365 migration? Better license packaging on a bigger ecosystem of apps at an affordable price u2014 an advantage Microsoft can often wield over cloud rival Google.

20 May 2011 5 mins

Microsoft Office Office Suites SaaS

Calculating Virtualization and Cloud Costs: 4 Approaches

For IT departments wanting to do chargebacks or cost-justification, figuring virtualization and cloud services ROI is tricky, at best. Experts outline four methods you can use to break down costs and returns.

19 May 2011 5 mins

Cloud Computing Virtualization

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

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