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Every week Tellago shares the biggest news in the
enterprise software world with our customers.
I thought I start sharing the list in this blog
as well starting today :)
Enterprise Software News and Insights:
Here are some of the biggest headlines of the
week:
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Citrix, now all about mobility, buys Zenprise
to boost BYOD effort: Citrix is buying Zenprise, a specialist in
mobile device management, in a bid to solidify
its BYOD strategy. The bring-your-own-device
wave that's sweeping businesses, constitutes a
huge quandary for those companies. They want
their employees to be able to use their iPhone,
Android phone or tablet of choice but they don't
want to give those devices willy nilly access to
corporate assets. Read More...
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Google Kills Free Google Apps For Business,
Now Only Offering Premium Paid Version To
Companies Of All Sizes: Google has announced a change to Google Apps
for Business - ending the free version of the
product, offering only its Premium version which
costs $50 per user, per year, regardless of the
size of the company. Read More...
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Planning His Legacy, Cisco Chief Maps an
Expansion: John T. Chambers has readied his last great
act as the leader ofCisco Systems, fearing major
changes in the technology business that could
doom his company. Read More...
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Tech Visionary Ray Ozzie Is Working On A New
Mobile Startup, Talko: Another bit of news has dribbled out about
legendary programmer Ray Ozzie's new gig.He's
now raised $4 million for it, according to a SEC
filing spotted by TechCrunch. Read More...
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Cloud Complexity Clouts Enterprise
Customers: How complicated is Amazon Web Service's cloud?
So complicated, it had to devote a full
conference track to managing cloud resources at
last week's re:Invent conference, including -
kid you not - a complete session just to
explain AWS billing. This is just one example
that for all the talk about the awesomeness of
cloud, its complexity is a very real impediment
to adoption by business customers. Read More...
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RIM Woos Enterprise Customers With One Free
BlackBerry 10 Handset Per Company - If They
Start Getting Ready For BB10:RIM's latest move to shore up the remainder of
its BlackBerry user base focuses on the
enterprise segment. It's announced a program to
encourage businesses currently using BlackBerrys
to start learning about the brave new world of
BlackBerry 10. Read More...
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With HP now in the game, the enterprise cloud
fray gets more interesting: Hewlett-Packard's cloud efforts can get lost
in the noise of the company's bigger "macro"
issues, but as the company adds its OpenStack
compute cloud to the mix - joining the existing
CDN and storage clouds - the battle for
enterprise cloud users is on. Read More...
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Frenemies: Apple And Google Reportedly Join
Forces For $500M+ Bid On Kodak's
1,100 Patents: Sometimes self-interest can make for some
unlikely friendships. According to Bloomberg,
Apple and Google have finally teamed up to buy
Kodak's portfolio of patents out of bankruptcy
for an estimated $500 million. Yes, the two
companies are bitter rivals when it comes to the
smartphone market, and really every other market
- even wearable tech, apparently. Read More...
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NoSQL: The Love Child of Google, Amazon and
... Lotus Notes:
Most students of the web trace the NoSQL movement
back to Google and Amazon. As they grew their
enormously successful online services, Google and
Amazon needed new ways of storing massive amounts
of data across an ever-growing number of servers,
so each created a new software platform that could
do so. Google built BigTable. Amazon built
Dynamo. Read More....
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This Latest News From Google Has To Worry
Microsoft: It's An Attack On Microsoft's Last Line Of
Defense: Google announced yesterday that it is
going to start charging all businesses that want
to use Google Apps - Google's online version
of Microsoft Windows. Read More...
Blog Post of the Week:
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20 Years of SMS: Great Technologies Transcend
the Times: Yesterday marked the 20th anniversary of the
first sent SMS message. Specifically, the target
message was sent from a PC to a mobile device
over Vodafone's UK network. The text of the
message was very simple "Merry Christmas" and
the recipient couldn't reply because, well, the
mobile device wasn't equipped with SMS
technology. Read More...
What's New with Tellago:
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This week we will be presenting sessions about
cloud computing and mobility at the Cloud &
Virtualization conference in Orlando, FL (http://virtlive360.com/Events/2012/Home.aspx). We will be sharing a lot of best practices
and techniques about building cloud and mobile
solutions in the enterprise.
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