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Monday, December 5th, 2011
There comes a time in every growing company’s life, at some point after the frantic start-up phase has found its path and the CEO has caught her breath, when the whole enterprise could benefit from a bit of reinvention. A speculative assessment of not only its component parts, but how the lot of them fit together. (more…)
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Thursday, November 24th, 2011
Sometimes, a revolution takes hold of a situation with such commanding force and resolve that its witnesses are barely able to catch their breath in the maelstrom—let alone get a handle on the terminology. So it has been with the all-consuming and increasingly endowed miracle that is the cloud.
Let us breathe, then, and draw in some of the new language this upheaval has brought into our revised realities. (more…)
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Friday, November 18th, 2011

We’ve said it before and we will again. Cloud computing is a saviour of sorts—and for more than just your bottom line and overtaxed systems. No, cloud computing has a larger calling than that. One might even say that cloud computing is poised to deliver the world to a finer place, one in which waste and excess are recalled as sins of a more reckless age. With this communal data-storage marvel, the carbon emissions that would otherwise be sent heavenward from a churning-away corporate entity can be slashed meaningfully, and the world thus scores a significant reduction to its reliance on carbon. (more…)
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Friday, November 4th, 2011
Enough with the bad news already. Enough with the plummeting TSX and the tumbling dollar and the soaring despair. What happened to the good stuff, anyway?
In fact, the looming cloud heralding the next stage of corporate computing, the same one that’s sent nervous naysayers into all manner of anxious fits, has a broad silver lining that these fretful types probably haven’t considered. (more…)
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Thursday, October 20th, 2011
High-Performing Microsoft Gold Certified Partner wins Microsoft Partner of the Year – Ingram Micro (VTN) VentureTech Network Award; CEO recognized on Profit’s list of 100 top female entrepreneurs.
Toronto, 20 October 2011 — It’s been a banner week for 360 Visibility and its CEO, Lynn Cooke. First, Cooke was recognized with a berth on Profit magazine’s W100 list, which celebrates successful Canadian female entrepreneurs. Next, the company Cooke co-founded with Marco D’Ercole was selected by Microsoft for its esteemed Ingram Micro (VTN) – Microsoft Partner of the Year Award.
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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) Posted in Business, Enterprise Software, Hosted Exchange, Hosted Sharepoint, News, Technology | No Comments »
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…)
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
 10 Things you need to know about PSOs
1. The global PSA software market will hit a staggering $7.63 billion by the year 2017, according to new research from Global Industry Analysts, Inc. The news is surprising, considering the hit this market took during the recent global economic dip, as those companies purchasing such products opted to hold back their purse in infrastructure-enhancing purchases.
2. The tide is turning on this front in a significant way. Indeed, PSA software suites are increasingly emerging as bona-fide recession-proofers for corporate IT department principals inside professional services organizations anxious not to suffer the same shortfalls again. (more…)
Tags: Business Relationships, Cloud Computing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Microsoft Cloud Computing, Microsoft Unified Communications, Professional Services Posted in Communications, Hosted Exchange, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, News, Professional Services, Unified Communications | No Comments »
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…)
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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…)
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