Posts Tagged ‘cloud’

Canonical working with Microsoft announced today (9/17/2013) the Juju fully supports deploying service on Ubuntu into Windows Azure. Juju provides an intuitive GUI for designing and deploying applications into Windows Azure. From today’s news release which can be read here Latest Ubuntu Certified images for all supported Ubuntu releases are currently available on Windows Azure, […]

Ryan Duclos posted a blog about Microsoft’s new offers to Non-profits to let them use email, hosted public sites, hosted intranets, online storage, and office apps.  After some thought, I believe this can have a real impact.   Take a group near and dear to my heart, Teton Valley Ski Education Foundation (TVSEF).  TVSEF’s purpose […]

Well guess what I think is the best alternative, are you ready? It is Office Web Apps!  Office Web Apps are free versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. If you’re like me, I like to use application that have the same look and feel as the applications I’m used to, in this case it […]

I just posted a short article on the leaders in Social Networking by Gartner over on my Portal blog.  Microsoft made the leadership quadrant because of it’s breadth of functionality, Yammer’s ease of use, a great vision, and a tremendous user base that shows no signs of slowing growth.   One of the strengths noted is […]

It’s almost a given now that we must take into account Legal Discovery.  Governance and technology comes into play and everyone must keep content for a specific period of time. All that content must be discoverable wherever it may lie.  When you move your entire collaboration and social world to the cloud, that requirement comes […]

Thanks to @lizasisler for telling  me about this post.  ZDNet has an article about large organizations using PaaS and that it’s not just a small company kind of thing.  The interesting point they make deeper in the article is that PaaS can be used for more than just hosting a site or set of functionality […]

For many companies, investing in cloud-based CRM is a key component of their budgets. According to Gartner, cloud and CRM will drive enterprise software spending in 2014. Forty percent of CRM systems sold in 2012 were cloud-based software-as-a-service, with Salesforce.com the leading vendor having 14 percent market share. But what exactly will your company be […]

CRN has a longish article about Gartner’s ranking (Note: you need to pay for the research) of Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) vendors.  Microsoft made the the list as a visionary.  Now before any Microsoft fans complain about Azure not being in the leadership quadrant, remember that Azure started out as a Platform as a Service […]

Microsoft just a few days ago announced a new program for research. They have partnered with several researchers over the last 3 years to experiment with the cloud. With the success of the research projects already completed Microsoft found value in the research. To support scientific research in many disciplines Microsoft launched the Windows Azure […]

Windows Azure is a great environment for your applications. It can also house applications that aren’t ready to be consumed by your clients whether internal or external to your organization. What makes this more compelling is that as of June you now pay by the minute vs. by the hour for compute as well as […]

Microsoft has an interesting set of research they published for their partners on Successful Cloud Partners.  The respected research firm IDC created and published this information for Microsoft.  I’m not going to bore you with what it takes to be a successful partner.  I do want to highlight a couple stats on cloud growth.  Doubtless […]

Gameinformer has an interesting article on Xbox One.   The article covers many topics but I want to focus on just one.  Here’s what he has to say about the cloud capabilities.  See if it sounds familiar. “Both Kinect and Cloud as it relates to indie has been really interesting,” Spencer says. “If you’re a […]