Posts Tagged ‘cloud’

If the hype is to be believed, the Cloud is the most amazing thing ever. Something that you’ll want to wad up into your IT life and roll  up to be a singular star in you IT sky.  I’ve seen taciturn CIOs turn into giggling fanboys at the very mention of the Cloud. I’ve even […]

A while ago I blogged about the Kindle Fire and how excited I was about their Silk Browser.  Well, I ended up getting one and have had two months to really dig into it.  Here’s what I discovered, it’s really a cloud device rather than a true tablet. I’ll start with what you expect from […]

A while ago I blogged about the Kindle Fire and how excited I was about their Silk Browser.  Well, I ended up getting one and have had two months to really dig into it.  Here’s what I discovered, it’s really a cloud device rather than a true tablet. I’ll start with what you expect from […]

The Windows Azure Marketplace why would I want to use that? There are several reasons why you may want to use this Marketplace. If the core value of my business was the data I capture an API or an application in which I want to setup a subscription based offering why wouldn’t I want a […]

Let’s face it tablets and smart phones have increased productivity levels of employed professionals. However, many physicians have not experienced these benefits, because their systems limit access to pertinent medical information to solely work computers. For the most part, healthcare providers have been unable to review lab or medical image results from anywhere but their […]

I just finished watching a webinar from The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) on the top BI trends for 2012 and thought I’d match those trends to the Microsoft stack for comparison.  According to TDWI, the top 7 trends are as follows:   Self-service BI – Enabling business users to perform their own modeling and analysis […]

In addition to increases in cloud computing and consumerization of IT, Gartner’s analysts predict that in 2012, we’ll see noticeable increases in big data. Among other specific predictions, according to FierceCIO: Gartner’s analysts fear that the ever-expanding volume of information available to organizations, coupled with IT’s diminishing control, will make it harder to ensure the […]

Building on my first post around Office 365, I’ve decided to post a short video blog series on addressing common myths around SharePoint Online. The first video in the series talks a little about the flexibility of SharePoint Online, options for developing solutions in SharePoint Online, and finally, the ability of using ADFS (Active Directory […]

Forrester reports on Oracle’s Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud offering.  I find it very interesting how they went about their initial SaaS cloud.  It’s basically the Java App server and the Database setup in with sophisticated self service provisioning. Basically, Oracle unveiled today a fully automated public cloud approach providing a Java Enterprise Edition […]

Forrester reports on Oracle’s Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud offering.  I find it very interesting how they went about their initial SaaS cloud.  It’s basically the Java App server and the Database setup in with sophisticated self service provisioning. Basically, Oracle unveiled today a fully automated public cloud approach providing a Java Enterprise Edition […]

In the book As The Future Catches You, Juan Enriquez notes that “in a knowledge economy, you can work at your desk, in your home, in a hotel, or in a plane.” As a person that operates in just that manner, there are real concerns not about just the connectivity to accomplish that mode of […]

A hot topic throughout the SharePoint Conference 2011 earlier this month was the evolution of Microsoft’s cloud-based offering, Office 365, and more importantly, it’s successful adoption within large enterprises and small and medium-sized businesses. Within only 12 weeks since it’s release, millions of customers have taken advantage of the enterprise-class capabilities offered by Office 365. […]