Just in time for SharePoint Conference 2014, Exoprise, a provider of cloud-based monitoring, introduced its CloudReady Monitor for SharePoint. This new offering expands upon the existing Exoprise CloudReady Monitor for Office 365, giving SharePoint on-premises and SharePoint Online admins real-time visibility into site performance, allowing them to quickly identify and address issues. From the Press […]
Posts Tagged ‘cloud’
Webinar Recap & Replay: Office 365 Best Practices
Yesterday, we hosted a webinar on Best Practices When Migrating to Office 365. During the session, Shalini Pasupneti, a solution architect within Perficient’s Microsoft practice, first polled the audience, and found that more than half were not currently using Office 365. Based on this, she gave a brief overview of what makes up Office 365, […]
New Azure VMs improve SQL Server Data Warehousing in the cloud
While poking around in Azure, looking to set up a BI Demo VM , I noticed that Microsoft had added a few SQL Server-oriented images to their catalog. VMs labeled “SQL Server… for Data Warehousing”! There was one for SQL Server 2012 (SQL Server 2012 SP1 for Data Warehousing on WS 2012) and one for the current […]
IBM Making Bolder Moves in the Cloud
It is clear IBM is investing in the Cloud with over 11,000 people attending Pulse this year. The conference has been a great venue for clients and business partners sharing their stories and plans for the future in the Cloud. The week kicked off with another announcement of another smart acquisition of Cloudent. IBM Buys […]
Perficient announces Rich Wood to speak at #SPC14 on Yammer
Today, Perficient announced that Rich Wood, director of Perficient’s national Microsoft web and social collaboration practice, will present on Yammer best practices at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2014, taking place next week, March 3-6, in Las Vegas. The Perficient Microsoft team will also be available in booth #308 to discuss all things SharePoint, and they’ll […]
IBM Buys Cloudant Cloud Database
I’ve ranted a couple times about the gaping hole that is database in the cloud. I say that not because I don’t like Azure’s cloud service in SQL Server or Amazon’s db service. I say it because on premise solutions that run on a database don’t have an easy way to migrate to the cloud […]
Cloud: It’s NOT all where it’s at…..
Like my 1st grade teacher would tell me when I ended a sentence with this preposition……”It’s between the ‘A’ and the ‘T’”. Well, in this situation, it’s between the “cloud” and the “on premise”. More and more companies are starting to explore and use Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) as a viable option for developing […]
The future of enterprise collaboration from @RichOtheWood
On Wednesday, CMSWire.com published an article written by my colleague, Rich Wood. Rich’s writing always leaves a lasting impression on me. Perhaps it’s his ability to incorporate subtle humor into his articles and blog posts, or his passion for the topic at hand. In his latest article, The Future of Collaboration is Right Under Our […]
Upcoming Webinar: Best Practices When Migrating to Office 365
Did you know that one in four enterprise customers has Office 365? Or that in both 2012 and 2013, Gartner positioned Office 365 as a “leader” in numerous Magic Quadrant reports? So what does this tell us, exactly? Well, to begin, cloud adoption is accelerating rapidly, and organizations are putting serious thought into moving from […]
Cloud is Driving Scale, Compliance and Growth in Healthcare
Today, a report by market research consulting firm RNCOS released findings that predict the healthcare technology market will grow at a compound annual growth rate of about 10 percent between now and 2018. About one-third of healthcare organizations now use cloud technology. According to Fierce Health IT: Continued innovation and government suppport for such tools […]
Windows Azure: How to create a streaming media service (GUI)
In my previous post I discussed how Microsoft and NBC were streaming every single event live and on demand at the Sochi Olympic Games. Azure makes publishing and streaming videos easier than ever before. This post will walk you through creating a media service, uploading content (video or audio), encoding it and publishing it for […]
Top 25 SharePoint Influencers #Top25sp
With the SharePoint Conference nearly upon us, Scratch Media has come out with a list of the Top 100 SharePoint Influencers in the world, and asked for votes to identify the top 25 SharePoint Influencers globally. While there are many excellent and worthy candidates on the list, it shouldn’t include me, or my esteemed colleague, […]