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  • Avaya offers virtual meetings, SaaS-style

    Avaya this week updated its <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/collaboration-web20.html">enterprise virtual collaboration software</a> and started offering it in a software-as-a-service model.

  • Google tightens Apps' uptime guarantee

    Google is modifying its Apps service level agreement in ways that increase the company's accountability whenever the hosted collaboration and communication software experiences downtime, the company plans to announce on Friday.

  • IT seeks a safe road to the cloud

    The road map for expanding enterprise use of cloud computing is being drawn by IT executives like Mark Stone, CIO at Safety-Kleen Systems Inc.

  • 25 new IT companies to watch

    The next generation of IT vendors has arrived on the scene. Driven by a tentative economic recovery that is seeing venture capitalists release a few more dollars to tech startups, and a need to create tools for the world of cloud computing and virtualization, a flood of young technology companies is hitting the market.

  • Gartner sees 'context-based computing' on the horizon

    Being a CIO -- or working for one -- no longer means just keeping a data center and network running. Now the CIO and the IT division must become "entrepreneurial" to drum up new customers for the business and learn how to deploy cutting-edge technologies such as "context-based computing" -- or risk becoming irrelevant.

  • Google introduces Google Apps for Government suite

    Honing in on the lucrative government market for business applications, Google introduced on Monday Google Apps for Government, featuring its suite of cloud-based business applications equipped with extra security precautions.

  • The need for real security in a virtual world

    In a recent column, my Security Manager's Journal counterpart, Mathias Thurman, wrote about securing virtual desktop environments. My company is going through the same exercise of evaluating VDI as a replacement for traditional desktops. As Mathias pointed out, the concept of virtualizing the applications that run on the system does not substantially change the threat landscape, nor does it modify the countermeasures we put in place to protect against those threats.

  • Software-as-a-service is maturing fast

    Customers always want their software bug-free and free of charge. Anything less is a disappointment, according to Josh Greenbaum, a principal at Enterprise Applications Consulting.

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