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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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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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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You’ve repainted the place in non-VOC shades. You’ve introduced a composting program to the staff mess. You’ve gone as paperless as you can in a paper-loving world. 