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	8 sure-fire ways to screw up a cloud contract Cloud licensing's become so complex that it's easy to pay too much or get burned later on. Here are some tips to make sure you're getting your money's worth. Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation How Organizations Are Improving Business Resiliency This Forrester Technology Adoption Profile examines how IT decision-makers' expectations and approaches are evolving to address increasing demands from their organization and clients. Learn More. In this Issue DreamForce 2013: How to Get the Most From a Massive Conference Mozilla ushers in new Firefox UI Firefox Nightly: A visual tour of the new Australis UI Salesforce.com and HP to offer 'Superpod' for large enterprises Microsoft to deliver Office 2013 SP1 in early '14 Get ready for the 'Internet of customers,' Salesforce.com CEO Benioff says Microsoft takes off the gloves with Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1 How to use Google's Keyword Planner for SEO (plus 7 free alternatives) WHITE PAPER: Salesforce.com 2013 Gartner Magic Quadrant Report for Salesforce Automation New Gartner research positions salesforce.com in the Leaders Quadrant for Sales Force Automation. Download the 2013 Gartner Magic Quadrant Report and find out what Gartner analysts have to say about Salesforce. Read now! DreamForce 2013: How to Get the Most From a Massive Conference What can you say about a user conference that weighs in at 120,000 attendees and has a total budget rivaling a small city? Choose your technical sessions wisely and approach 'lessons learned' discussions with caution. Read More Mozilla ushers in new Firefox UI Mozilla on Monday began rolling out its first major Firefox user interface change in more than three years, seeding early adopters of the "Nightly" build with the new "Australis" revamp. Read More Firefox Nightly: A visual tour of the new Australis UI Firefox rolled out the new 'Australis' UI to its Nightly browser channel on Monday. Here is what the update looks like. Read More Salesforce.com and HP to offer 'Superpod' for large enterprises Customers of Salesforce.com who want their own dedicated infrastructure within the vendor's cloud will now be able to get one through a partnership with Hewlett-Packard. Read More WHITE PAPER: Verizon Wireless How to Decrease Stress On Your Network Cloud computing, the explosion of big data and the mobile revolution are a boon to business, but they add stress to the network. IT professionals cite keeping up with data growth, managing infrastructure, and securing data and apps as their top three challenges over the coming year. Learn More Microsoft to deliver Office 2013 SP1 in early '14 Microsoft today said it will ship the first service pack for Office 2013 sometime early next year -- most likely in late February -- if it sticks to its usual release cadence. Read More Get ready for the 'Internet of customers,' Salesforce.com CEO Benioff says Much has been made about the "Internet of things," but behind every device is a customer, and companies that fail to recognize this do so at their own peril, according to Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff. Read More Microsoft takes off the gloves with Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1 In Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1, Microsoft has released a combination of operating system updates that we find very compelling. Microsoft has joined much of the rest of the industry in annual release roll-ups with feature additions, and this time, they listened to the critics. More interesting are the one-upmanship features targeted directly at its virtualization and cloud competition. Some were stunning, despite a few strange and perhaps anecdotal basic problems that we found. Read More How to use Google's Keyword Planner for SEO (plus 7 free alternatives) Google's new Adwords Keyword Planner is geared for PPC rather than organic SEO, but it can still be useful for keyword research. Here are five ways to use the new tool -- plus, seven organic keyword research alternatives. Read More
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