Posts Tagged ‘cloud’

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. […]

Since this is the week for Sharepoint’s conference, I thought I would track the news from the conference. Quick hits and info: Microsoft has sold 125 million licenses of sharepoint Sharepoint 2010 has sold 62 million licenses so far SharePoint by itself would be one of the top 50 software firms 67% of firms have […]

So Amazon just introduced a new device called the Kindle Fire which is an Android based 7 inch tablet.  At $199, the price makes it worth looking at. However, I think a number of people will miss perhaps an even bigger story. Amazon released Amazon Silk at the same time. Amazon Silk is a cloud […]

Date: October 27, 2011 Time: 1:00-2:00 PM EST Register Now! http://microsoftbuild2.eventbrite.com/ We have changed the date of this webinar to October 27, 2011. Windows 8 is a product that is initially both exhilarating and confusing. The Metro Style UI first experienced in Windows Phone 7 is at the forefront of Windows 8. It is fresh […]

IBM just announced new mobile social applications.  IBM has been a leader in the social marketplace over the last several years and this announcement continues their leadership status. The announcements cover applications for iOS, Android and Blackberry devices, so they have the major players covered. Here are the new applications IBM announced: New social networking […]

Forrester has just released The Forrester Wave for Mobile Collaboration, which does a very good job of highlighting who the leaders are in this market.  The image below shows the Forrester Wave; you can access the full report at forrester.com. What is interesting is that the report includes only those companies that have native applications […]

  Alright. Here it is. Today’s good morning announcement. Let’s call it ‘setting expectations’. A plain language conversation with users about how to potentially (because they are still figuring it out) smoothly transition your data….in the future (this fall)…. ….iCloud subscription is actually free ONLY with OSX Lion and iOS 5 users (which requires purchase […]

So with all this talk about the Apple iCloud launch today, it all sounds pretty spiffy. Especially if you know that it’s powered by Apple’s iDataCenter – which sounds like pretty powerful stuff. Pay for everything. Access everything. Store nothing! Yay No long upload times of your data to a cloud. (Currently up to 5mb […]

After much ado about everything in my cloud-based MobileMe account over several years of $99/year subscriptions I can only hope that the product will soon rise to the occasion. I was originally a googlecal and contacts girl, but then I finally jumped ship to mobileme since I got an iphone and I had several macs, […]

Google Chrome Notebook Order. Yours. Now? Due out on June 15th, 2011. What it is: It is a notebook that is essentially a mobile device – uses 3G, mobile data networks, wi-fi It only has the google Chrome browser installed 8 second bootup Cloud-based data storage and syncing – log in from anywhere – your […]