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Podcast: Performing Well in a Web 2.0 World: Web 2.0 is more than a buzzword for those charged with tracking application performance when apps get flung around the globe through a Web browser with data coming from multiple sources. Network World’s Jason Meserve talks with Imad Mouline, chief technology officer at Gomez, about the challenge of measuring Web 2.0 application performance. (15:54)
Enterprise customer sees benefits in consolidating services under one platform, 07/17/07: Switching from Oracle to SAP CRM gave Dow Corning the right tools to improve sales processes.
Oracle adds Google Maps to Field Service, 07/17/07: Oracle is integrating one of its applications with Google’s mapping service to help service providers locate customers more quickly.
NetApp to unveil new low-end filer appliance, 07/17/07: Network Appliance is expected to announce a new low-end network-attached storage appliance before the end of this month, sources say.
Salesforce.com adds customization features, 07/17/07: Online provider coins term “platform-as-a-service” to highlight development tools to extend CRM, build custom apps that run on its hosted infrastructure.
Microsoft researchers show off wireless projects, 07/16/07: Microsoft Research workers showed off some of their projects, including several that find new uses for mobile phones, on Monday at a summit in Redmond, Wash.
A way to connect iPhone to corporate e-mail servers, 07/16/07: Do you have that sexy new Apple iPhone in the palm of your hand? And yearning to connect to your corporate Exchange e-mail account, contacts and calendar? And grinding your teeth because Apple doesn’t yet support Exchange?
Rewind and replay what happens on your network, 07/16/07: Have you ever wished for the ability to press a rewind button to back up to a specific point in time to review exactly what was happening on your network at that moment? Maybe there was some sort of major drag on performance around 2:15 last Tuesday afternoon, and you need to diagnose precisely what caused it. Or perhaps you suspect an employee of improperly sending proprietary data outside the firewall a month ago, and you need to confirm your suspicions by viewing the exact network traffic that user generated way back then.
‘Call my e-mail,’ Yoomba says, 07/12/07: Start-up Yoomba Thursday launched its namesake service that lets e-mailers place VoIP calls and exchange instant messages.
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