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Monday, September 12th, 2011
 Are a new set of cloud standards starting to form? All revolutions start somewhere and their evolution can follow a pretty typical course. Attention must be paid to all the loose ends exploded by the emerging phenomenon, as quite often, how people exploit this new potential at its earliest stages will dominate the shape the new paradigm assumes.
So it is with the developing shape of cloud computing. Definition is starting to emerge in the skies with the establishment of a set of standards seeking to best facilitate its adoption. Will they eliminate the confusion that currently shrouds the stuff? It’s a subject that’s scored a whack of attention from folks anxious to corral usability within manageable parameters. We take a look at some of the organizations trying to set the tone for this game changer. (more…)
Tags: Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Microsoft Cloud Computing, Microsoft Unified Communications, SharePoint Hosting
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Monday, September 5th, 2011
 Cloud computing - know your business No sooner have you draped yourself with the very latest in technological bling then the calendar pages catch the breeze and you’re out of step once more. Bellyache all you want, but this constant condition of obsolescence is par for the course in today’s ever-evolving technical landscape.
It would be a tyranny to imagine keeping every last corner of your corporate house in technological currency. Still, it behooves all corporate citizens to take regular stock of the place, and to work to update at least the most outdated of their systems, regarding them particularly in light of how they support the shifting tasks and styles of the people who use them. (more…)
Tags: Business Relationships, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Microsoft Cloud Computing, Office Communications Server, Professional Services, Software as a Service (SaaS)
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Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
 Will the Dropbox privacy storm abate? The storm began not in a teacup, but in a Dropbox, and it was a doozy.
The Web-based file-hosting service that allows users to share files and photos across the Internet courtesy of cloud computing is still sweeping up from a summer squall that was set off with nothing more spectacular than some poorly chosen words.
Dropbox set the leaves in motion in June when it sought to tweak its terms of service to better explain its position on a range of platforms, including the thorny business of its ownership of the data it hosts. But its reworked explanation just served to muddy the scene, arguably further damaging cloud computing technology’s more widespread adoption. (more…)
Tags: business analyst, Business Relationships, Cloud Computing, Dropbox, Enterprise Software, network virtualization, Privacy, Terms of Service
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Thursday, August 25th, 2011
 Predicting the effects of new technology can be a challenge Although it’s still early days, from a long-range historical point of view, the cloud has actually hovered above our various computer-powered preoccupations for a good few years now. Adoption rates for this game-changer motor ever forward, with bugs being identified and addressed, and capabilities being increasingly celebrated.
But it’s worth noting that we remain far from an end point in our understanding of, and appreciation for, this paradigm-shifting newcomer to our daily lives. The Microsoft-produced white paper, The Economics of the Cloud (TK), offers some insight on how this new age might evolve, and urges its proponents to take the long view and see the underlying economics as having the biggest impact on long term take-up rates. (more…)
Tags: 360 WorkBook, business software, CFO, cloud, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, I.T., Infrastructure Technology, Microsoft Unified Communications, SharePoint Hosting, Software as a Service (SaaS), the cloud
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Thursday, May 26th, 2011
How extraordinary it is to be present at a revolution. How enlightening it is to bear such close witness to the paradigm-shifting arrival and evolution of such a thing as cloud computing. How frustrating it is to have to clean up the mess of misinformation fear-mongering underperformers in this emerging universe have rained down upon the rest of us. (more…)
Tags: Cloud Computing, Microsoft Cloud Computing, Software as a Service (SaaS)
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Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
Remember Y2K, the much-anticipated and wildly-feared turn of the millennium that sent us all filling our bathtubs and plundering the grocery stores for canned goods? If your ERP system does too, it may be time for an overhaul. (more…)
Tags: Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, ERP planning
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Friday, April 22nd, 2011
While the weather outside might regularly indicate otherwise, spring is upon us. And with its predictable arrival comes the reflexive impulse for seasonal cleaning. This explains the preponderance of conversations of late about lemon-scented disinfectants, all-purpose tile scrubbers — and vulnerability management.
Just as the melting snow reveals the canine deposits from the winter that’s passed, engaging in a vulnerability management exercise will uncover all the crap that’s collected beneath your superficial day-to-day operations. (more…)
Tags: Enterprise Software, Vulnerability Management
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Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
If it seems callous to be considering the fortunes of corporate entities in the wake of a humanitarian catastrophe like the one that befell Japan last month, that’s not the intention.
But the reality is, as much as the day-to-day life of that country’s citizens was devastatingly disrupted by this natural disaster, so, too, was the daily existence of the many businesses operating on this hard-struck island nation. (more…)
Tags: 360 XOsoft, Disaster Recovery
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Friday, April 8th, 2011
There was a time when a phone was just a phone. What a quaint idea in a day when this ubiquitous device emerges increasingly as the Swiss Army knife of modern living.
Near Field Communications (NFC) is the latest buzzing telephony concept to capture our collective imagination. (more…)
Tags: Near Field Communications (NFC), Telephony
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Thursday, February 17th, 2011
 What a pleasure it is when a pursuit of particulars ends positively. Such has been the outcome of 360’s lengthy search for a comprehensive, cloud-accessed, project management solution for professional services firms that makes as much sense for the lower end of the market as it does for those organizations with many more users.
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Tags: 360 WorkBook, Advertising Agency, Cloud Computing, Professional Services, Software as a Service (SaaS), WorkBook
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