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Macquarie Telecom reports upgraded earnings guidance of $40.6 million

Oracle Shows What Happens When Sales Runs the Show

An aggressive sales-first mantra has made billions for Oracle. This approach may be backfiring, though, as competitors and former partners line up to take Oracle down and customers start to call the company's tactics hostile. Will this hurt the

How a Private Cloud Helped Applied Materials Save Suffering Engineers

When ginormous 3D CAD files kept crashing, engineers were literally quitting in frustration. Applied Materials' CIO gambled by moving it all to a private cloud and won much love and a CIO 100 Award for innovation

Amazon Faces Commodity Cloud Competition

Until recently, Amazon Web Services stood alone among commodity cloud service providers. Then Microsoft and Google stepped in. The world will never be the same, columnist Bernard Golden says.

10 Disaster Preparedness Questions to Ask Your Cloud Services Providers

Thanks to automation, agents can provide customers with fast and easy answers to frequently asked questions u2013 without losing the human touch.

10 Disaster Preparedness Questions to Ask Your Cloud Services Providers

A typical cloud contract contains uptime clauses and credits for missed service levels, but it often fails to adequately protect the enterprise customer. Here are 10 questions the intelligent cloud customer can ask to make sure they are sheltered fro

CUA eyes off mobile payments, but not NFC

$99 Video-Game Console Aims to Revolutionize Modern Gaming

The $99, Android-based Ouya video game console will not only cost significantly less than popular consoles like Microsoft's Xbox or Sony's PlayStation, all of its games will offer some form or free game play. And Ouya exceeded its $1 millio

NSA Chief: Cyber Attacks Cause All the World’s Ills

NSA chief and Army General Keith B. Alexander wants more federal funding to combat cyber attacks, so he's talking up the threat and making some grossly exaggerated statements, according to CIO.com blogger Constantine von Hoffman.

How to Build a Data Protection Plan That Ensures Application Recovery

When it comes to data protection, organizations are demanding faster recovery times than ever before. Achieving rapid recovery requires a plan that focuses on applications, not just data and servers.

Queensland Institute of Medical Research seeks data centre services