Posts Tagged ‘cloud’

Among many excellent sessions at this year’s SharePoint Fest Chicago, Perficient colleague and Microsoft MVP David Greve presented “Office 365 Integration Options.” As Director of Office 365 at Perficient, and co-author of “Microsoft Office 365: Exchange Online Implementation and Migration,” David has a wealth of knowledge and experience around Office 365, and he shared that […]

So Amazon is definitely up to something.  I noted yesterday  that AWS offers free database access and now Amazon is touting something almost every enterprise site needs with a Sign Sign On (SSO) and Identity Management service.  Jack McCarthy of CRN has an article about the new service in the AWS Marketplace.  Clearly Amazon is […]

I found the CRN article describing Amazon’s adding their Relational Database Services to its Free Usage Tier.    What I find interesting is that when AWS became a household name (OK, industry wide name)  about two years ago, my first thought was that vendors like IBM, Oracle, JBoss, and Liferay ought to just add the db […]

So it’s Open World time and CRN is reporting on some key announcements.  They note that Oracle is pushing almost all of their key services online including. Oracle Planning and Budgeting in the cloud (Hyperion) Oracle Financial Reporting (Not sure) Oracle Data and Insight (OBIEE???) Oracle Developer Cloud Service (could be part of Fusion and […]

GigaOM has an interesting article about why they think Amazon and Salesforce are blowing away the competition when it comes to cloud offerings.  Keep in mind that author James Urquhart is saying that these two are leaving companies like Google and Microsoft in the dust.  Here’s a couple quotes before my thoughts. I almost feel silly […]

Dream Team… Assemble in the Cloud! It’s finally come and gone! After months and weeks of buildup, including my own running buildup to the event, Dreamforce was wonderous week! This is an exciting time! I got to hang with almost twenty of my colleagues as a team. No small feat considering we’re coming from all over North America, spanning multiple time […]

I’ll be speaking at a brand new cloud & virtualization conference for IT professionals, systems administrators, developers and consultants – Cloud & Virtualization Live!, December 10-14 in Orlando, FL. http://bit.ly/CVSPEAK25 I’ll be presenting the following sessions: · Developing Mobile Solutions with Azure and Windows Phone · Pushing Data to and from the Cloud with SQL […]

I am ecstatic about attending the first of what I hope to be many Dreamforce events! Everyone I know who has gone raves about their experience. Finally I get to learn the secret handshake and get a firsthand perspective on the biggest and considered by some, the best event in our industry today. To celebrate, I have created a […]

CRN has an article about how Microsoft is diving into the cloud with Windows Azure, partner cloud easy program, Office 365 and a host of other tools and programs.  Perficient’s Microsoft group has seen this first hand as well.  In some ways, it’s like when Microsoft dove into the web browser world and really got […]

My Colleague Martin Sizemore had a great post this morning on Microsoft stepping up to the HIPAA Compliance challenge in the Cloud. In the post, which you can read here Martin talks about Microsoft’s recent announcement that support for HIPAA compliance is now avaliable for Windows Azure in addition to Office 365. From Martin’s post Microsoft […]

Prior to HIMSS 2011, I blogged about the 3 reasons for using a Managed Private Cloud for Interoperability. In that blog, I noted that in healthcare circles, cloud computing conjures up fears for protecting private healthcare information and security compliance concerns. In the last few weeks, Microsoft has introduced support for HIPAA compliance in their […]

One of the more notable announcements in the last month was that of Google’s Cloud Platform Partner Program. The platform currently offers Google Compute Engine, Google App Engine, Google BigQuery, and Google Cloud Storage. The partner program is designed to extend the use of these applications by allowing integration of other Technology Partner applications as well as expanding implementation options […]