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Autodesk CEO Pushes "Democratization" of Technology

Most people think of Autodesk as the maker of AutoCAD, the design software of choice for architects, engineers and other design professionals - typically running on high-powered workstations. So why is Autodesk CEO Carl Bass so hung up on the "democratization" of technology - spreading technology to the cloud computing platforms and mobile…

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RSA 2012: VMware CTO Proposes Virtual Business Phones to Secure Real Ones

In a simultaneous announcement at the RSA security conference in San Francisco and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Monday afternoon, VMware Chief Technology Officer Dr. Stephen Herrod made two extraordinary revelations. One is that his company is working on a technology that would give businesses with "BYOD" policies for their employees a way…

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The End of the Résumé: Oracle's Big Plans for Taleo

Consider something called a talent profile. It's a digital portfolio that encapsulates your work history, your skill set, your accomplishments, and your faults. It can be used to rate you. It will reside on a cloud-based service. In the sense that you will always have access to it, you own it. In the sense that human resources departments…

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Brian Stevens on Red Hat's Involvement with OpenStack

Red Hat has been involved with OpenStack development for some time. Unlike the bulk of companies involved, however, Red Hat has gone about its work quietly and without "officially" joining the effort. Red Hat still isn't saying exactly what it hopes to get from OpenStack contributions, but Brian Stevens did divulge a bit about the company's…

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MapR CEO: Hadoop Will Be Less About NoSQL, More About Parity

Last month, veteran IDC analyst Dan Vesset predicted that while Hadoop will become a standard component of the modern data center, by 2015 the market around Hadoop will have matured at such a rate that the major players we recognize today probably would no longer exist. MapR - a commercial Hadoop provider whose name was inspired by the MapReduce…

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Does Microsoft Remain a "Cloud Player" in 2012?

It's almost impossible to believe now, but when Microsoft premiered its Windows Azure service back in October 2008, there was genuine speculation over whether the company would try to muscle its way into the cloud the way it did with Internet Explorer during the war with Netscape. What was the hook? What Windows service or feature would be so…

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VMware's 10-point Plan for Disaster Recovery

There is a continuing change in the way businesses are thinking about the concept of disaster recovery and system maintenance, brought on perhaps for the first time since the advent of the Internet itself by government agencies. In researching how huge, country-wide data networks should plan for the contingency of terrorist attack or natural…

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"Why You Buy What You Buy" Becomes a Job for IBM

"What if you could quantify the world's consumer behavior," asks a company video, "and use it to make different and better decisions than you ever have before?" This is the question that has been asked over the past decade by a company called DemandTec, a manufacturer of retail analytics software for analyzing economic and behavioral trends around…

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Marc Benioff Live from Cloudforce Winter

For a company whose secondary logo is the word "Software" with a big slash through it, Salesforce.com may have already become the nation's leading producer of software conferences for businesses. A huge crowd has assembled at the Jacob Javits Center in New York to hear Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff deliver one of his already-legendary keynote…

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Sign Up Now for One of 200 Free Invites to Do.com Select Beta

This could be your next social productivity platform. It's free, it's cloud-based, it's synchronized, and it can integrate with your Gmail. And even if you've never heard of Salesforce.com, you'll know it now. Do.com is for real. ReadWriteWeb has been authorized by Salesforce to grant 200 invites exclusively to the first of our readers who sign…

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Autodesk CEO Pushes "Democratization" of Technology

RSA 2012: VMware CTO Proposes Virtual Business Phones to Secure Real Ones

The End of the Résumé: Oracle's Big Plans for Taleo

Brian Stevens on Red Hat's Involvement with OpenStack

MapR CEO: Hadoop Will Be Less About NoSQL, More About Parity

Does Microsoft Remain a "Cloud Player" in 2012?

VMware's 10-point Plan for Disaster Recovery

"Why You Buy What You Buy" Becomes a Job for IBM

Marc Benioff Live from Cloudforce Winter

Sign Up Now for One of 200 Free Invites to Do.com Select Beta