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In the cloud, power shifts from providers to consumers

Thoran Rodrigues explains how the shift to cloud services gives power back to consumers by eliminating a lot of the disadvantages of vendor lock-in. Read more

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Removing a single point of failure: Creating a second EC2 machine on AWS

Nick Hardiman addresses the single point of failure with his lone Amazon EC2 machine. He creates a second VM by cloning the AMI. Read more

Barriers to cloud adoption for healthcare practitioners

Aditi Roy Ghatak discusses the primary issues that complicate cloud technology use in the healthcare industry and the compelling reasons to overcome these obstacles. Read more

Google Sites as an enterprise intranet platform

Ian Hardenburgh considers the advantages and disadvantages of Google Sites for use as an enterprise intranet. Read more

The rise of the app store, and the frustrated enterprise

The BYOD movement can be challenging for CIOs in a number of ways. Scott Lowe has some suggestions for how to handle it. Read more

Drupal: How a dorm room tech project became a global phenomenon

The creator of the CMS Drupal reveals how the platform got started by accident and why being open source is the key to its success. Read more

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