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By Thoran Rodrigues Takeaway: Thoran Rodrigues interviews Dr. Satwant Kaur, a leading expert on emerging technologies, about the required traits of the “smart cloud.” I’ve recently had the opportunity to have a conversation with Dr. Satwant Kaur on the topic of Smart Clouds. Dr. Kaur has an extensive history in IT, being the author of

By Thoran Rodrigues February 24, 2012, 6:00 AM PST Takeaway: Thoran Rodrigues says that while true cloud software is necessarily SaaS, not all software sold as a service really fits into the true cloud model. What are the distinguishing characteristics? The definition of software-as-a-service (SaaS) predates the rise of cloud computing, and it relates to

By Scott Lowe Takeaway: We may not know exactly what’s going to happen in the tech world this year — but a lot of you have strong opinions about what WON’T be happening. Last week, we put out a Call for Feedback asking you, the loyal TechRepublic community, to tell us what you think are

By: Paul Thurrott In these run-together, workaholic days, I occasionally miss the irresponsibility of youth, when I could while away a day tossing around a ball with friends and pausing only to lie in the grass and try to find familiar shapes in the clouds. Today, the cloud has taken on a whole new meaning.

By Toni Bowers Nucleus Research, Inc. has released its top ten tech trends for 2012. We’re seeing a lot of the same predictions from the Gartner Symposium so IT pros would be wise to check these out for possible career enhancement. 1. The Productive Enterprise Nudged by the ready adoption of Facebook, many enterprise software

BY: Leah McLaren One night last week I awoke to the sound of shattering glass. It was 2 a.m. and I was alone in my apartment, a ground-floor flat in a quiet London neighbourhood. Without stopping to think, I found myself charging out of bed to meet my intruder in a T-shirt. “No, no, no,

Takeaway: Justin James gathers the information you need to make the right deploy decision when applying Microsoft’s September 2011 patches in your organization. This month is pretty mild in terms of recent patches. The interesting surprise this month was Microsoft accidentally making the security patch information known for a few hours the week before it

Passions about cloud computing vary from the ho-hum to the evangelical. The ho-hum crowd sees cloud computing as Back to the Future computing. Ride the DeLorean back to the 70s and return to the heyday of “timesharing” – i.e., renting computing resources on more powerful remote computers. Customers purchased resources by CPU hour, connect hour,

Microsoft (MSFT) this week released the official beta version of Office 365, but we’ve been playing with it for a while now. Here are 13 cool features of the cloud-based service that combines Office, SharePoint, Lync and Exchange. Powerful Admin page A simple Admin page lets support staff easily manage users and configure Exchange, SharePoint

The Google cloud Google’s entire strategy and approach to the cloud is based on the future, and not the Internet as it is today. Google is betting that the world will have low-cost, ubiquitous Internet access in the not-too-distant future, including fiber connections in offices and homes and super-fast mobile broadband in virtually every nook and cranny