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	5 questions to ask before buying Microsoft licenses Managing software licenses may be just as difficult as managing the software itself. That's why Forrester Research just came out with a report titled "Consider These Five Criteria When Choosing a Microsoft Volume Licensing Program." Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed The Cloud's 3 Stages of Evolution Today's smart CIOs are assessing their workloads against business needs and analyzing where each should run—locally or in the public cloud. Read on to learn about the benefits of cloud computing, and why its success or failure is often dependent on WAN optimization. Read Now. In this Issue Skype voice service crashes Oracle's database now available on Amazon Web Services Mozilla delivers Firefox 5 beta Codie awards dominated by familiar names WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel 6 Key Dedupe Challenges The deduplication market is the fastest segment ofthe storage industry, per IDC. Accordingly, every vendor is telling their version of the deduplication story. With emerging technologies, it is difficult for IT managers to determine what the true IT benefits vs. marketing spin are. Read More Today! Skype voice service crashes With some users unable to sign into Skype and make voice calls, the company offered users a multi-step fix to get its service running again. Mac and Linux users will be able to solve the problem in fewer steps than Windows users. Read More Oracle's database now available on Amazon Web Services Customers can choose from "license included" and BYOL (bring your own license) pricing. The first model is priced starting at $0.16 per hour, while the latter starts at $0.11 per hour, according to Amazon. Read More Mozilla delivers Firefox 5 beta Firefox 5 sports two major changes: support for the CSS (cascading style sheets) animation standard and the inclusion of a "channel switcher" that lets users flip between Firefox's three editions of Aurora, Beta and Release. Read More Codie awards dominated by familiar names The Software and Information Industry Association's (SIIA) 2011 award winners for softwarinclude some familiar names, such as Salesforce.com, Red Hat, and Adobe, all of whom have been recognized by SIIA before. Read More
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