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Enterprise disaggregation is inevitable

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Red Hat makes its case to be THE container company

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Feature

Can LibreOffice successfully compete with Microsoft Office?

A strategy that involves challenging the dominance of Microsoft Office seems doomed, but LibreOffice may have a puncher’s chance. Here’s what the open source longshot needs to compete.

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News Analysis

Microsoft at a crossroads in the automotive tech market

Microsoft is being squeezed out of the in-vehicle infotainment business, but it's by no means giving up on the automotive industry. It may have a future as an OS-agnostic provider of cloud-based services.

IDG Answers

Can I have multiple Dropbox accounts on the same computer?

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Researchers to use Google cloud to aid in genome analysis

Researchers at MIT and Harvard are partnering with Google to use its cloud platform to take genomic data and use it to find cures to diseases such as cancer and diabetes.

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Google brings Broad Institute's genome analysis kit to the cloud

The institute's software will be free for non-profits and academic researchers, but everyone will pay to use Google's cloud platform

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IBM, Box partner on cloud analytics technologies

Box users will be able to store data on the IBM cloud and use Watson Analytics

IDG Answers

How to get free storage on Dropbox by referring new customers?

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Snowflake Computing opens data warehouse to the masses

General availability of the cloud computing service comes alongside a $45 million funding round

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Arista has a controller now too

Company unveils CloudVision orchestrator for its switches

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The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Tuesday, June 23

Privacy group demands Uber probe... Europol hunts Isis online...Oracle goes all-in on the cloud

IDG Answers

How to view iCloud files on iPhone without using Safari?

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Moving Up to the CloudBy
IDG Contributor Network

Have you hugged your cloud today?

If you haven't yet embraced the cloud, you should at least give it a little hug.

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Best-Fit Enterprise SoftwareBy
IDG Contributor Network

8 reasons why committees fail when selecting enterprise software

While organizations use committees to select business-critical software, real world experience shows this doesn’t work as expected. Here's a look at why committees struggle with software decisions and what path leads to more...

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Oracle completes its stack of cloud services

Oracle has launched 24 new services to help customers onto the cloud

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Cloud plays prominently in an IT overhaul at Milwaukee Tool

Eric Hanson, VP of Information Technology and Business Optimization at Milwaukee Tool, joined the company five years ago to help rethink IT as the company was remaking itself. Cloud ended up playing a critical role, especially when...

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IBM announces container service for Bluemix

The new IBM Containers service, based on the open source Docker software container technology, is designed to help developers deliver applications across hybrid cloud environments.

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IBM books CopLink into the cloud

The CopLink cloud offering is part of the new IBM Safer Planet portfolio

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The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Monday, June 22

Taylor Swift shames Apple into paying musicians royalties during streaming trial

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1,000 Pepper robots sell out in a minute on launch day

The US$1,600 household robot has an emotion engine and is designed to be a member of the family

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Why SoftBank's Pepper could become the iPhone of robots

Pepper can't do housework, but it's a spearhead in the coming robotics wave

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NSA uses OpenFlow for tracking... its network

Spy agency uses SDN to keep tabs on IT inventory, simplify operations

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