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Every Friday we publish our "Follow Friday" series which features a few industry news articles we would like to share with you. We are constantly finding interesting, fun, exciting, noteworthy, shocking and industry-changing articles all week long on the internet. Check us out every week to see what catches our eye around the web!

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This week's Follow Friday articles include a challenge to the claim that HTML5 has performance problems, a plan from a UK health official to improve healthcare with barcodes, a case that SharePoint is leading the charge to the Cloud, and more.

HTML5's "performance issue" rubbished - .net
by Craig Grannell

Paul Bakaus, W3C AC representative for Zynga and creator of jQuery UI, has rubbished so-called "HTML5 performance issues". In a blog post titled "No, HTML5 does not have a performance issue", Bakaus argued against those within the industry that dismiss the technology because it doesn't run well in older kit and said this "has to stop".

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Accusoft is off to Vegas, with most of the IT world, to bask in the glow of the content management glitterati at EMC World 2013, May 6-9. The theme for this year’s gathering of EMC Corporation customers, business partners and curious onlookers is “Transforming Enterprise Storage to Create Business Value,” a.k.a. finding money in the Cloud.

Read more to see what will be showcased at EMC World 2013.

Every Friday we publish our “Follow Friday” series which features a few industry news articles we would like to share with you. We are constantly finding interesting, fun, exciting, noteworthy, shocking and industry-changing articles all week long on the internet. Check us out every week to see what catches our eye around the web!

This week’s Follow Friday articles include Netflix’s plans for HTML5, cloud computing is now conducted by a majority of businesses, and more.

Netflix plans to dump Silverlight for HTML5 streaming - CNET
By Steven Musil

Due to eroding support for browser plug-ins, Netflix is making plans to move its streaming service from Silverlight over to the emerging HTML5 video format. The movie-streaming service has used the Microsoft plug-in to deliver streaming content to Windows and Mac OS X computers since 2008. But after Microsoft announced last month that it would end support of the browser versions of the plug-in by 2021, it became clear Netflix needs to start focusing on a replacement.

While the solution may present into through Google's efforts to make Netflix available on the ARM-based Samsung Chromebook, the movie service has already been working on long-term solutions. Anthony Park, Netflix's director of engineering, and Mark Watson, Netflix's director of streaming standards, today reiterated the disadvantages of plug-ins and the efforts to move beyond plug-ins altogether.

The Cloud Hits the Mainstream: More than Half of U.S. Businesses Now Use Cloud Computing - Forbes
By Reuven Cohen

If you’ve attended a technology conference over the last couple years it’s hard to avoid the obvious buzz around cloud computing. Almost every vendor has applied the term to anything and everything imaginable. During this time there has been some debate over the level of adoption outside of the startup scene, specifically within the larger “enterprise class” of companies. We’re now at a point where most “new software” created, is created with the Internet as a central tenant.  It’s how modern software is developed, deployed and consumed.  Yes. The cloud has gone mainstream.

New research sponsored by enterprise focused cloud computing firm,Virtustream, sheds new light on the adoption of cloud computing. The report findings indicate that the majority of U.S. businesses are now using some form of cloud computing for IT. The report notes that increasingly most of these businesses use multiple cloud providers leading to potential problems with interoperability and, so called, “Cloud Sprawl.”

Read more to see the additional articles that made this week's list.

Every Friday we publish our ‘Follow Friday’ series which features a few industry news articles we would like to share with you. We are constantly finding interesting, fun, exciting, noteworthy, shocking and industry-changing articles all week long on the internet. Check us out every week to see what catches our eye around the web!

This week’s Follow Friday articles include how cloud computing helps cut costs and boosts profits, is 2013 ready for HTML5, 1.7 billion to download health apps by 2017 and more articles.

How Cloud Computing Helps Cut Costs, Boost Profits - CIO
By Thor Olavsrud

The decision over whether to move your organization's IT to the cloud can be a daunting one. After all, it means a wholesale change in the sourcing and delivery of IT products and services. However, many companies are making the leap, at least for select capabilities—a recent by CDW of 1,242 IT professionals found that more than half of organizations are moving a variety of capabilities to the cloud. And a majority of them are recognizing cost savings and increased profits, according to another study by Rackspace Hosting.

Cloud – Based Productivity Solutions for SMBs - Cloud Tweaks
By Rick Blaisdell

Especially for small businesses, the cloud environment brings the most valuable benefits. The physical infrastructure deployment and maintenance, the need for specialized IT staff and the expensive software updates are just some of the aspects small businesses would not worry about if they would switch to cloud-based applications. But let’s see what kinds of productivity tools are out there in the cloud for SMBs:Cloud computing solutions should be the natural option for small businesses.

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Every Friday we publish our ‘Follow Friday’ series which features a few industry news articles we would like to share with you. We are constantly finding interesting, fun, exciting, noteworthy, shocking and industry-changing articles all week long on the internet. Check us out every week to see what catches our eye around the web!

This week’s Follow Friday articles include the 7 things about SharePoint 2013 all IT pros should know, how the banks are making the smartphone connection, healthcare and the cloud are finally coming together, and more.

7 Things About SharePoint 2013 All IT Pros Should Know - CIO
By Jonathan Hassell 

SharePoint, for Microsoft, has grown into a billions-of-dollars-a-year sort of business that increases its market share in the double-digit range each year. Not to put too fine a point on it: SharePoint is a beast in its space. Companies are adopting it worldwide to centralize knowledge, increase collaboration, develop applications on top of it and realize actionable intelligence about their overall business health.

However, SharePoint 2013 represents a major new release in the lifecycle of the product, and that may cause you to wonder what it is, what it can do for you and what your organization needs to know before considering and deploying it. Here's a brief SharePoint 2013 cheat sheet to help you sort out with some of those concerns.

For more information on collaboration for SharePoint, read the whitepaper The Role of Collaboration Tools for SharePoint.

 

Banks Make Smartphone Connection - Wall Street Journal 
By Robin Sidel

The adoption of mobile banking is being fueled by the explosion in smartphone usage. Roughly half of Americans who use a mobile phone are using a smartphone, according to mobile-phone industry estimates. Customers now are manipulating their gadgets to deposit checks and move money between accounts. Bank of America began offering mobile check deposit in August. The bank said customers are depositing more than 100,000 checks each day through their mobile phones.

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