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It was a great year for Social CRM, Social Selling and the world of SaaS. We’ve collected a bunch of great articles over the course of the year so we wanted to share the the top 25 blog posts from 2012. Any others we should add to the list? Leave them in the comments.
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Bluelock's new recovery as a service, powered by Zerto Virtual Replication, meets both 'in-cloud' and 'to-cloud' needs
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"According to Bluelock, cloud-based recovery-as-a-service has two important subterms that you need to understand before exploring recovery options."
A good RaaS is a headache solved. Delete the scoop?
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Cloud interoperability and portability seems to be a hot topic these days. This topic is one that I have a bit of experience with.
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Company suggests this latest release is a real alternative to Amazon Web Services Delete the scoop?
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A startup with some big name investors has come out with a system that can turn any data center into a cutting edge cloud computer
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Nice to see smaller operations competing with the big boys. Delete the scoop?
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Cloud computing's big debt to NASA ( Internet ) IBM's decision this week to base its cloud services on OpenStack may help establish this open source platform as the standard in enterprises. 
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Cloud computing's big debt to NASA ( Internet ) IBM's decision this week to base its cloud services on OpenStack may help establish this open source platform as the standard in enterprises. Delete the scoop?
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When it comes to open source cloud platforms, OpenStack has the largest and most active community but don't count out OpenNebula, Eucalyptus and CloudStack. Delete the scoop?
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In today's marketplace, accessibility is key. Business owners, large or small, need an attractive, visually appealing web presence that's always on and always engaging. Delete the scoop?
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In the cloud, it's a question of who has the ability to scale to meet enterprise needs.
In its latest Magic Quadrant report, research firm Gartner lists 14 infrastructure as a service (IaaS) companies, but Network World looked at four of the biggest names to compare and contrast: Amazon Web Services, Rackspace (and OpenStack), Microsoft and Google. Delete the scoop?
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Brian Gracely provides an overview of the OpenStack "Folsom" release, including new projects for Networking, Block Storage, and Dashboard. Delete the scoop?
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If you look at cloud computing, you might think, based on the hype, that enterprise-cloud management systems like OpenStack, OpenNebula or Eucalyptus have things wrapped up. Delete the scoop?
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Computer racks have long offered a bit of flexibility when it comes to the size options. Now open cloud vendor Rackspace is looking to provide the same sort of flexibility. Delete the scoop?
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Company extends multiplatform and multicloud management to better align with software-defined data center... Delete the scoop?
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Think private clouds offer all the flexibility and none of the risk? IT is missing out if it doesn’t prepare for public cloud use.
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Excellent article by Charles Babcock on the challenges facing IT, certainly worth a read. Delete the scoop?
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Canonical's Linux now comes with compute, storage and networking updates for OpenStack cloud deployments
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Linux in the form of Ubuntu is an important player to have in this industry. Delete the scoop?
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Rackspace looks to boost OpenStack uptake by building and managing cloud infrastructure for service providers
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"It's not just a ‘Rackspace wants more revenue' thing - we want to extend the network effect of this, ...." ---- Which translates into more revenue! Delete the scoop?
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John Engates is the chief technology officer at Rackspace, and even he had trouble wrapping his mind around the way the company runs its most important of technologies. Rackspace, you see, runs its cloud software on top of its cloud software. Delete the scoop?
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Photo: taberandrew/Flickr You'd think that by now, since we started talking about the term cloud computing back in 2008, we'd all know what its characteristics are and how it’s consumed and delivered. Delete the scoop?
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Last week, I discussed IT predictions that would not come true in 2013. Admittedly, it’s easier to poke holes in somebody else’s predictions than come up with your own. So, to be fair, here are three technology predictions of my own. Delete the scoop?
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Next year, "the cloud" will finally be ready for enterprise workloads and big companies will finally start moving them there. Data centers will stop being enclosed by walls and those are just two of GigaOM's 5 big cloud predictions. Delete the scoop?
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While cloud computing giants Amazon, Google and Microsoft scramble to cut prices to lure customers to their cloud-computing infrastructures, their smaller rival Rackspace Hosting is heading in the opposite direction. Delete the scoop?
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The latest release of OpenStack, which goes by the code name Folsom, adds two additional modules into the mix: Quantum and Cinder. Delete the scoop?
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Jonathan Bryce, new OpenStack Foundation executive director, explains how the cloud project takes a democratic approach to win support for its open source work. Delete the scoop?
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With the standards battles and never-ending hype, many organizations see no need to enter the fray.
We often hear about companies that dove feet first into cloud computing. What we don't hear, though, is that these businesses are typically larger, more aggressive firms that put a value on trying new things to get strategic advantage -- and their example is meant to egg you on to following the same path.
These companies are distinctly in the minority. Although most enterprises have some storage-as-a-service providers and a SaaS or two, they still haven't created a cloud computing strategy, nor do they have major cloud computing deployments planned. Delete the scoop?
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