Beware the bait and switch in the public cloud

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	Beware the bait and switch in the public cloud Enterprises and developers relying on cloud providers whose platforms are a collection of partnerships and strategic alliances are walking a slippery slope. When these partnerships break down, developer and IT investments result in wasted time, effort, and money. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Rackspace It's the year of cloud. Learn more at Cloud U. Through a year-long series of whitepapers and webinars, independent analyst Ben Kepes will be building a cloud computing curriculum designed for technologists and non-technical users alike. The mission is to build widespread knowledge about the cloud revolution and encourage discussion about the cloud's benefits for businesses of all sizes. Learn More Now In this Issue Choose your cloud with integration in mind Facebook envy: Salesforce's dream of friending the customer RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: FileMaker Resource: iOS White Paper and Deployment Kit Quickly Develop and Deploy iOS Solutions. With FileMaker Pro, iPad and iPhone solutions can be prototyped and completed in hours or days versus weeks or months. No iOS application programming or design experience is required. Read the white paper and download the kit. Choose your cloud with integration in mind Most organizations that use cloud computing understand the need to use interfaces to access both information and services from the cloud. But you may not know that some cloud providers limit the number of interfaces they can provide in a single instance. Read More Facebook envy: Salesforce's dream of friending the customer Salesforce's consistent spin is that all its tech announcements, from Data.com to the touch apps, feed into the social enterprise concept by making it both worthwhile for workers to adopt and easy to use. But for that to work, enterprises are going to have to embrace social media. Read More
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