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23 May 2013
Opinion: Commodity Clouds, the 'Tuning Tax' and What Cloud Users Really Need

Application-tuning capabilities coupled with today's commodity cloud offerings are more than many users need. Just like broadband Internet, though, it's only a matter of time before these 'overserved' users turn to the commodity cloud to meet 'unserved' needs. Will this leave enterprise cloud deployments in the cold?
22 May 2013
Opinion: $99 Linux stick turns any HDMI display into a virtual desktop

Hard on the heels of the news that Dell's "Project Ophelia" thumb PC is expected to ship this summer, thin client vendor Devon IT on Tuesday rolled out a similar contender of its own called the Ceptor.
17 May 2013
Opinion: Noisy neighbors in your cloud

As data-transfer shifts increasingly to the cloud, the servers stacked in datacenters handling the data become increasingly crowded. Virtualization means multiple users can share a single server.
09 May 2013
Opinion: Xerox scanner grades handwritten tests, scolds you for dangling modifier

We're now one step closer to a completely automated classroom. Xerox recently pulled the wraps off a new program called Ignite that will turn photocopies into test grading machines.
Opinion: How Cloud Computing Changes Enterprise IT Economics

The rapid rise of cloud computing means corporate IT may no longer be the cheapest purveyor of application hosting, infrastructure, storage and other services. The sooner IT leaders come to terms with this, the better.
01 May 2013
Opinion: Amazon Web Services Will Continue to Disrupt Enterprises, IT Vendors

Traditional IT vendors may deride Amazon as a mere bookseller, but Amazon Web Service is growing quickly, not to mention inexpensively. If those vendors aren't careful, AWS will soon compete against them in the enterprise cloud computing market--and if current trends hold, the competition may not even be close.
22 April 2013
Opinion: How OpenStack Should Prepare Itself for the Enterprise

With major vendors such as Dell, HP, IBM and RackSpace throwing their weight behind OpenStack, the project is poised to be a preeminent private cloud player. But discussions at the recent OpenStack Summit show that the project does have some growing up to do before it gets there.
17 April 2013
Opinion: Viewing project-related email archives

Reader Cathron Brewton, like many of us, would like to organize her old email in an efficient way. She writes:
11 April 2013
Opinion: Dropbox for Business launches, offering single sign-on

Cloud-storage provider Dropbox announced today the introduction of Dropbox for Business, a team-oriented version of the service with a particularly IT-friendly feature: single sign-on (SSO).
09 April 2013
Opinion: Wrangling email: How I keep my inbox under control

Though specialists have devised myriad systems that purport to achieve Inbox Zero. I'm not that ambitious. I just want a system that keeps the number of unread messages in my inbox as small as possible, doesn't treat my inbox as a to-do list, and doesn't require me to spend hours sorting and archiving my mail.
26 March 2013
Opinion: Does Big Data Spell the End of Business Intelligence As We Know It?

Traditional BI requires human input to decide what correlated factors to query. As predictive data analytics gets increasingly powerful, the algorithms do the deciding. That spells the end of BI as CIO.com columnist Bernard Golden knows it--and he doesn't feel fine about it.
11 March 2013
Opinion: Microsoft gives away three months of Office 365 to college students

Just in time for term papers, Microsoft is offering three-month trials of Office 365 University.
07 March 2013
Opinion: VMware Tantrum Shows It's Not Connecting With Cloud Buyers or Sellers

At a recent partner conference, VMware executives threw a fit about the firm's inability to 'own corporate workload' and its partners' inability to beat a 'bookseller' at the cloud computing game. The outbursts show is that VMware isn't connecting with application groups, who are increasingly driving cloud buying decisions.
Opinion: Tackle overloaded Google Apps Gmail accounts with FreeSpace

Google Apps offers cash-strapped small businesses a lot of bang for the buck, but one app that can cause problems is Gmail.
11 February 2013
Opinion: ATMs: convenient, but a security risk

It's hard to remember life without ATMs. In Hong Kong, we can transfer funds, pay our utility bills and even settle tax demand-notes using an ATM. And they even dispense cash.
08 February 2013
Opinion: Discuss and organize team projects with Dispatch

If there's one thing the Web probably doesn't need, it's another project-management tool aimed at teams. I mean, hello? Basecamp? Bitrix24? Yammer? How the heck does start-up Dispatch hope to compete?
07 February 2013
Opinion: Setting up email on your Mac

If you're new to the Mac but something of an iOS veteran, this lesson will be a snap. And it should be, because Apple modeled Mountain Lion's Mail, Contacts & Calendars system preference on the setting of the same name found on today's iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.
Opinion: How Cloud Computing Is Driven by Mobile, Media and Marketing

Defenders of enterprise computing are in for a rude awakening. Mobile, media and marketing applications are poised to flock to the cloud, which is far better suited to handle load variability, latency and change management. As end users and executives demand more flexibly business applications, they will soon follow suit.
Opinion: Free Microsoft quick-start guides teach you the Office 2013 basics

The other day I offered four reasons you don't need Microsoft Office 2013. However, if you fall into the camp that does need it, or you just decided not to follow my advice (it's been known to happen), Microsoft wants to help you get started using the new suite.
Opinion: Get notified when a site's terms of service change

You know those lengthy terms-of-service (TOS) agreements everybody ignores when installing a piece of software or registering for a new Web service?

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