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In a business that employs large sales forces, the need to build lasting relationships with clients and process large numbers of documents, sales leads and referrals CRM has moved to the mainstream.

Few could have predicted that online storage would become as popular as it has. Not even Drew Houston, founder of Dropbox, who is first to admit surprise at the excitement around the technology. While Dropbox was the first to perfect cloud technology for consumers and has reaped the benefits – from 5 million users in 2010 to 25 million to 175 million users today – it faces some serious competition. As promised, in follow up to last week’s post on Cloud Computing & the Data Dilemma, below is a brief look at the top four online storage options.

Gone are the days of floppy disks and portable hard drives, the age of cloud-based storage is upon us. The ability to backup, store and sync data across multiple devices has radically changed the way we use technology for both personal and business purposes. As the technology has advanced and the security concerns have lessened, businesses across a host of industry sectors have been implementing the technology at an astounding rate and their organizations have been reaping the rewards of the resulting efficiencies.

Despite an obvious trend toward the superficial, content still trumps appearance when it comes to building a successful website. In a recent article, published in The Content Strategist, author Leanna Kelly simply contends, “bad content equals bad customer service.” The online world is an impersonal one, to make up for this customer service and quality content must be held as paramount.

In light of a recent white paper written by the second-largest software company in the world, Oracle, for the US Department of Defense (DoD), which spoke of the unreliability and high price of open source software, we thought we would look at the open source debate in depth, and weight out the issue.