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	Microsoft goes after iPad dollars with Office 365 Personal Office 365 Personal gives buyers the right to install the Office suite on one PC or Mac, and on one tablet. And yes, an Apple iPad counts as a tablet. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell How Master Data Management Supercharges Fast-Moving Everyone in business knows that inconsistent and inaccurate data costs money. Workarounds and make-do solutions have kept a lid on the problem, but as more and more systems get connected up, the cost of inaction is escalating. Read now In this Issue INSIDER Collaboration 2.0: Now with cloud, social, Web and mobile Dropbox for Business leaves beta, aims for workplace adoption How to avoid big mistakes with Oracle's Exadata Google steps up competition with Amazon, expands Cloud Platform to Asia MediaFire offers 1TB of cloud storage for $2.50, 50GB for free Microsoft launches toolset for capturing 'ambient intelligence' Can VCE be the Apple of the converged enterprise cloud? RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Open Business Conference Open Business Conference - Cloud. Big Data. Mobile. Legal. Attend this conference and learn why Open Source has become ubiquitous in the Enterprise and in the business layer, as more and more organizations are reaping its considerable benefits, including speed, efficiency and cost savings. May 5-6, 2014, The Palace Hotel, San Francisco Click to continue INSIDER Collaboration 2.0: Now with cloud, social, Web and mobile Today's collaborations tools are a lot like yesterday's in some respects, except they add features for cloud, social, Web and mobile. They're also a whole lot easier to use. Read More Dropbox for Business leaves beta, aims for workplace adoption Dropbox unwrapped the enterprise edition of its cloud storage and file sync service on Wednesday, as it seeks to expand its customer base from consumers to businesses. Read More How to avoid big mistakes with Oracle's Exadata Although Exadata is Oracle's most popular and mature "engineered system," some customers are making mistakes that prevent them from getting the most out of the expensive product. Here's how to avoid that fate. Read More WEBCAST: CA Technologies LIVE EVENT: 5/7, The End of Data Protection As We Know It. Traditional backup is going away, but where does this leave end-users? Learn more! Google steps up competition with Amazon, expands Cloud Platform to Asia Following the recent opening of data centers in Taiwan and Singapore, Google has expanded its Cloud Platform to include locally hosted computing capacity, storage and databases for the Asia-Pacific region. Read More MediaFire offers 1TB of cloud storage for $2.50, 50GB for free MediaFire has launched a storage and file-sharing service that it argues is more secure than Amazon's. Read More Microsoft launches toolset for capturing 'ambient intelligence' Targeting the growing volume of data being generated by both machines and humans, Microsoft is showing off tools that could help organizations better understand -- and profit from -- this trove of information. Read More Can VCE be the Apple of the converged enterprise cloud? Apple wouldn't be where it is today if it hadn't taken redefined consumer electronics. VCE could very well do the same to the enterprise cloud market. Read More
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