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July 2, 2010

Friday, July 02, 2010 4:12 PM/EST

Cloud Computing ROI Is Sky-High For One SMB

By Tony Kontzer Cloud computing enables small U.K. firm to become a global player, doubling revenue in the process.

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June 28, 2010

Monday, June 28, 2010 3:25 PM/EST

The Cloud Debate: Public Versus Private

By Tony Kontzer What does the legal battle between Salesforce.com and Microsoft really mean for the future of cloud computing?

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June 21, 2010

Monday, June 21, 2010 10:40 AM/EST

BP Mismanages Data Flood

by Tony Kontzer Another gusher is giving BP headaches. For nearly two months, the nation has watched in horror as BP has flailed from one ineffective attempt to another in an effort to plug the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and...

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June 2, 2010

Wednesday, June 02, 2010 10:44 AM/EST

Prepare For the Data Center Massacre

Here in Guilford County, NC, we're pretty excited about the announcement of a pair of new American Express data centers, to be built along the I-40/85 corridor at Greensboro's eastern fringe. The huge construction projects and eventual tax receipts are...

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May 3, 2010

Monday, May 03, 2010 10:10 AM/EST

Wading into Nick Carr's "The Shallows"

I'm reading Nicholas Carr's new book, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. It's a departure from his previous books, The Big Switch and Does IT Matter?, which deal more directly with IT issues facing the enterprise....

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April 19, 2010

Monday, April 19, 2010 10:44 AM/EST

Behind the Times

The old joke about the New York Times is that nothing really happens until it appears in the Paper of Record. And nothing is too basic to be explained to Times readers ("Spring, a popular season that follows Winter...") Even...

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April 6, 2010

Tuesday, April 06, 2010 3:45 PM/EST

iPad in the Twitterverse

Twitter users offer a good barometer of the iPad's potential to change the way we do business. By Tony Kontzer

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March 30, 2010

Tuesday, March 30, 2010 9:54 PM/EST

Oracle vs. Rimini Street

Oracle and Rimini Street are trading barbs--and lawsuits--that could reshape the third-party support model. By Tony Kontzer

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January 15, 2010

Friday, January 15, 2010 10:04 AM/EST

Twittering the Google-China Story

by Tony Kontzer Few technology business stories have triggered the range of responses that Google's well-documented standoff with China has generated. The topic seems ideally suited to the Twit Digest treatment, in which I take some recent piece of tech-related...

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October 14, 2009

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 11:17 AM/EST

ADP's Formula Determines Cloud Apps

by Tony Kontzer When Mike Capone says cloud computing is nothing new, it's better not to argue. As the CIO of payroll outsourcing firm Automatic Data Processing Inc., Capone brings a unique perspective on the cloud. Although few of its...

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