| How Jigsaw for Salesforce CRM Fits Into the New World of Messaging Platforms Salesorce.com acquired Jigsaw earlier this year. This past week, Salesforce.com unveiled the integration. The service integrates Chatter, the Salesforce.com microblogging platform. When a contact is updated through Jigsaw, the subscriber gets an update in their Chatter feed. Jigsaw for Salesforce CRM is an example of how microblogging services are becoming message platforms for crowdsourcing... Continue Reading » Cloud Calculators: A Sign of Slick Marketing in the Cloud As the cloud computing market gets more crowded, a number of Web-based calculators are popping up to lure customers. These online calculators deserve their fair share of scrutiny. For the most part, they are there for the vendor to tell their own story in a way that shows the benefits of their service. Huge savings and incredible returns are pretty much what you are given when you pop in your... Continue Reading » Weekly Case Study: Yes Virginia, You Can Cool Your Datacenter The Virginia Community College system had a problem. The IT department had run out of ways to cool its data center. They explored going through the expense of transforming the building where the servers were housed or moving to a new building all together. Virtualization helped sort things out. They discovered servers that were soaking up power but were doing next to nothing. The results came... Continue Reading » Greenpeace Demands Facebook "Unfriend Dirty Coal" For Its New Oregon Data Center While Facebook might have won praise from locals with its construction of a data center in Prineville, Oregon, it has sparked the ire of the environmental activists at Greenpeace. Yesterday, Greenpeace posted on its blog a letter from its director to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in which the environmental organization took the social networking company to task for the energy consumption and the... Continue Reading » Verizon: A High Profile VMware Service Provider with Extra Importance Service providers are a lynchpin in VMware's strategy to extend its virtualization technology into the cloud. If the strategy works, VMware could become the leader in providing hybrid cloud infrastructures. It's a test for VMware's new foray into the cloud. And it has its risks. VMware is looking to provide an end-to-end platform that extends from the enterprise data center to the public cloud... Continue Reading » Intel and the Cloud - Federated, Automated and Intelligent Is a cloud utopia possible? The idea being that someday everything will be elastic. Services scale up and down based on usage. You would never have to worry about updating an application on your laptop. Security would be taken care of and devices would be smart enough to know what data to process and what should be rendered in the cloud. Sure. We are already seeing some of these scenarios... Continue Reading » | 
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