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How to Avoid the Pitfalls of Moving to the Cloud

The move from on-premises servers to cloud computing is a hot topic these days. More often than not, business and IT leaders are telling each other that they need to make the jump, but no one knows how to go from the status quo to the cloud. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Ken Jackson shares how to make the move to the cloud, outlining some possible pitfalls to avoid along the way. – As the hype curve around cloud computing continues north, it’s increasingly easy to get lost in the pressure perceived or real coming from all sides to quickly formulate a strategy to leverage today’s IT super trend.
The promise of benefits such as fast time to implementation, cheap infrastructure …


Pitfalls in Warranty Management Posted By : Rakesh

Warranty is an evidence of the manufacturers commitment of its product quality to customers. But it is sad that most companies pay very little attention to warranty management, thus missing opportunities for significant bottom-line savings.

Microsoft’s Phone Marketplace Could Risk Apple Pitfalls

Microsoft is using its TechEd Conference in New Orleans to outline the developer policies for its Windows Phone Marketplace, which will tie heavily into its upcoming Windows Phone 7 operating system. While a Microsoft executive in a blog posting made nods to transparent and uniform policies surrounding app submission, Apples recent controversies over applications in its own App Store suggests that Microsoft will need to tread carefully as it attempts to use developers apps to increase its appeal in the smartphone space. – Microsoft is outlining the policies for Windows Phone
Marketplace at its TechEd Conference in New Orleans, hoping that third-party
developers will be encouraged to build mobile applications for the platform
when it debuts on a variety of devices later in 2010. Those policies include
the inevitab…


Windows 7 How Is It Different From Vista And The Key Features Of Windows 7 Posted By : kaysubmit

Windows 7 is great advantage over Windows Vista. It has overcame all the pitfalls of Windows Vista starting from it usability to its accessibility. It also has some brand new features that were missing in Windows Vista. It is really a Operating System worth using. In this small note everything including the minimum requirement for running Windows 7, Key features and reasons to get upgraded has been briefed. I will help you a lot in making a clear decision for Windows 7.

Legal Pitfalls in IT Outsourcing: How to Minimize Transactional Costs

The transactional costs in IT outsourcing can be deal breakers. So it’s vital from a financial and legal standpoint to create a strategic, win-win outsourcing deal from the start. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Jennifer C. Wolfe shares seven specific principles about how to create that win-win outsourcing deal, as well as avoid the legal pitfalls and time killers in the outsourcing negotiation process.
– Anyone
who has gone through the process of securing an IT outsourcing deal for
their application development management, help desk, data center or
network services deals that can often be worth in excess of $20 to $100
million dollars and take years to implement knows that transactional
costs a…


10 Common Private Cloud Computing Pitfalls to Avoid

Discussions about testing and building private cloud computing systems at large enterprises and midrange companies consumed time and energy for many IT decision-makers in 2009. According to most industry analysts, a growing number of IT managers and C-level executives already have carved out some of next year’s budget to devote to internal cloud computing testing, hardware, software, services and licenses. The future is definitely looking up in this sector for 2010. As with any new technology trend, however, caution must be a key component of any such plan. Surgient, an Austin, Texas-based cloud software and services provider, has set up private cloud systems for more than 70 companies. So it knows firsthand about the common problems that can arise. CTO Dave Malcolm shares these with eWEEK in the following slide show.
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JooJoo Debacle Suggests Three Pitfalls for Apple, Microsoft Tablet PCs

The JooJoo, a tablet PC with a 12.1-inch touch-screen, was announced by tech startup Fusion Garage during a Dec. 7 Web conference. Although legal questions loom about the devices concept and design, an even bigger mystery presents itself: will be device succeed at all in the marketplace? And if it crashes and burns, what sort of lessons can Apple and Microsoft, which are rumored to have their own tablet PCs in development, pull from the wreckage?

Tech startup Fusion Garage announced the debut of the JooJoo,
a 12.1-inch tablet PC designed to surf the Internet, on Dec. 7. The device will
be released on Dec. 11 under a dark cloud of potential lawsuits, however, with
Michael Arrington founder of popular technology blog TechCrunch threatenin…