Friday, October 14th, 2011
According to clean tech market research and consulting firm Pike Research, the delirious reassignment of corporations’ computing operations from in-house equipment to the cloud could well prove a boon to more than just the bottom line of the business in question.
With more and more organizations opting to store their data on cloud computing systems rather than under their own roofs, outsourcing data centres are springing up like mushrooms to answer the demand. (more…)
Tags: Cloud Computing, Microsoft Cloud Computing, network virtualization, Professional Services, Software as a Service (SaaS)
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Friday, October 7th, 2011
It’s not unheard of, the idea of people embracing the very thing that once sent them into spirited flight. Consider the broccoli example.
Consider, too, the very prickly subject of cloud security, heretofore much maligned for its apparently inherently contained contradiction but, in a recent show of enlightenment, perhaps rewritten as saviour rather than villain.
Big Picture Author
In this Wall Street Journal article, a big-picture pundit introduces the extraordinary idea that the cloud may in fact be the safest place to store our data, the deafening cries that have long argued the opposite notwithstanding. (more…)
Tags: Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Professional Services
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
If you’re familiar with the concept of hosting a website, then you get hosted SharePoint. But that doesn’t mean you’re down with all the details.
SharePoint is a browser-based collaboration and document-management platform from Microsoft. Effectively a content-management system, SharePoint allows groups to set up a centralized, password-protected space for document sharing. Here, documents can be stored, downloaded and edited, and then uploaded for continued sharing. SharePoint can also host specialized applications, such as wikis and blogs, from within a browser.
The logic behind the concept is that an organization’s effectiveness can by streamlined by having someone else oversee the maintenance of a server, (more…)
Tags: Hosted Sharepoint, SharePoint Hosting, SharePoint On-Demand
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
No matter the prevailing economic environment—swell or depleted—the time is always right to explore ideas for making your business more efficient. Setting about to optimize your operational efficiency improves productivity, reduces costs, betters customer satisfaction, increases profitability and generally makes you look like you know what you’re doing.
1) Employ technology at every turn.
Everything from purchasing to bookkeeping to environmental stewardship at a company can find betterment through automation—and it ain’t bad for the environment, either. If it’s possible to perform a task smarter and faster by computerizing it, go for it. (more…)
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