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  • Forrester: Public cloud growth to surge, especially SaaS

    On the heels of the controversial Amazon EC2 cloud outage last week, research firm Forrester published a timely report on the growth potential of the major public cloud categories.

    Written by Shane O'Neill27 April 11 05:51
  • Gen Y vs. Gen X: Who causes more IT headaches?

    You've heard the Gen Y stereotypes before: They're lazy workers, exude entitlement and have been reared on social technologies that they bring into the workplace, whether IT departments like it or not.

    Written by Kristin Burnham06 April 11 05:30
  • CIOs to Vendors: Get to Know My Business

    Software-vendor consolidation is a fact of corporate life for CIOs and IT managers these days. After 2009, which for high-tech M&A was more famine than feast, cash-rich enterprise vendors are devouring smaller players to expand portfolios and reel in customer bases.

    Written by Thomas Wailgum26 June 10 04:59
  • Sun unveils MySQL update as Oracle deal looms

    Sun Microsystems on Tuesday unveiled an early look at MySQL 5.4, the next version of its open-source database, one day after Oracle said it is buying Sun for $US7.4 billion.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus22 April 09 05:28