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Jive Software adds integration tool for its enterprise social platform
Jive Software has released an add-on to its enterprise social networking (ESN) software that automates and simplifies the process of integrating Jive's suite with third-party systems.
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Salesforce.com adds central file view to Chatter mobile app
Salesforce.com wants to simplify the way mobile users find, access and share files from its Chatter enterprise social networking (ESN) application.
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Oracle opens second UK data centre to support government G-Cloud
Oracle has announced the opening of a new data centre in the UK to support the government?s G-Cloud initiative, following a similar move by Salesforce.com earlier this month.
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Centrica Energy deploys mobile Salesforce cloud
Centrica Energy is deploying a mobile cloud-based Salesforce.com platform for its energy trading business.
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IDC: Cloud, mobility exposing limitations of existing networks
The combination of highly virtualised environments inside enterprise networks, along with an explosion of mobile traffic, are exposing the limitations of existing networks.
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G2 Crowd challenges Gartner's Magic Quadrant with crowdsourced grids
Might the hegemony of Gartner?s Magic Quadrant be under threat? It sounds like a long shot but Chicago startup G2 Crowd thinks it has come up with a disruptive alternative - ditch analysts and ask IT professionals what they think instead.
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Platform-as-service offerings blurring lines between cloud packages
Cloud-based infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is for renting storage and compute capacity from a service provider, delivered via an Internet connection. Similarly, software as a service (SaaS) is for accessing applications that are hosted in the cloud.
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Salesforce and VCs launch £4.2m start-up challenge
Salesforce.com and European venture capital firms have announced a ?5 million (£4.2 million) Innovation Challenge, a competition for European start-ups building enterprise cloud apps on the Salesforce platform.
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How Facebook aims to reinvent hardware
Facebook used to be a company just like many others: It would buy servers, racks and other hardware from vendors like HP and Dell and rent out co-location space from vendors like DuPont Fabros and others.
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G-Cloud director label?s EU cloud plans as ?old world thinking?
The director of the government?s G-Cloud, Denise McDonagh, has questioned the European Commission?s Cloud Computing Strategy, labelling the approach as ?old world thinking?.
