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Technology Outlook

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Thursday, November 29, 2012 -- Technology Outlook: A Panel of CIOs Discussing Major Trends, How They're Leveraging New Technologies, and How They're Making their Firms More Competitive Today's IT organizations are experiencing major paradigm shifts. For this annual event we?re Cindy McKenzie ?

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Bringing The Benefit Of Managed Cloud To Enterprises, With Metacloud

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Many companies would love to be able to get the benefits of cloud--easy configurability, low cost, scaling, and more--but, due to various reasons, can''t take advantage of public cloud services like Amazon. The company announced a funding round from Canaan Partners, Storm Ventures, and AME Cloud a couple of weeks ago.

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Future of The Cloud is Bright | Just Ask the Market

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The advantages of the cloud are apparent whether you’re a multinational enterprise organization or an SMB. He references CIO Bernard Golden’s argument, made in The IT Jobs Cloud Computing Will Create , that while some roles may disappear altogether, others will remain, but in much less demand.

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Taming The Enterprise Texting Tiger, With TigerText's Brad Brooks

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To solve that issue, Santa Monica-based TigerText (www.tigertext.com) has been developing smartphone applications which replace SMS, and provide companies with the ability to control, delete, encrypt, and otherwise gain control of the messaging between their employees. We spoke with CEO Brad Brooks to learn more about the company.

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Interview with David Loo, CEO and Founder of Perspectium

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Loo--who was the very first employee at ServiceNow--explains what that means, and why companies use the startup's software. The company is all about data solutions which combine meaningful application frameworks together. I have been in IT service management for over 30 years, at companies even before ServiceNow.

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Ryan Blair, HashtagOne: From Gang Member, To Entrepreneur, To Anti-VC

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He eventually founded and sold consumer health firm ViSalus to a public company and is now back making investments, in technology companies, as a venture capitalist here at Los Angeles-based HashtagOne (www.hashtagone.com). After we sold it to that public company, I founded HashtagOne. What's the theme of your investments?

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IT Skills that Facilitate Cloud and BYOD Adoption

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Believe it or not, only about half of UK companies have adopted some sort of BYOD policy, with only a dismal four percent having fully gone BYOD. The problem is too many companies worry their staff isn’t properly trained to handle cloud migration or the sudden influx of a wide range of devices all at once. Network Architecture.