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Thought Leaders in the Cloud: Talking with Aron Pilhofer, Editor of Interactive News Technologies at The New York Times
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over 4 years ago
by
Robert_Duffner
Aron Pilhofer acts as editor of interactive news technologies at The New York Times , overseeing a news-focused team of journalist/developers who build dynamic, data-driven applications to enhance the Times' reporting online. He joined The Times in...
Environmental Benefits of Cloud Computing
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over 4 years ago
by
Larry Grothaus
Many of the conversations around the benefits of cloud computing are related to reducing hardware and energy costs, gaining operational efficiencies, or reducing time to deployment/market for applications. There are other benefits however that are often...
Behind the Cloud scene with Microsoft IT
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over 4 years ago
by
Larry Grothaus
I’ve blogged a couple of times in the past ( here and here ) about Tony Scott, Microsoft’s CIO, the areas that he focuses on, and what’s happening within Microsoft related to cloud computing. While Microsoft is a world leader in delivering...
Thought Leaders in the Cloud: Talking with Randy Bias, Cloud Computing Pioneer and Expert
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over 4 years ago
by
Robert_Duffner
Randy Bias is a cloud computing pioneer and recognized expert in the field. He has driven innovations in infrastructure, IT, Operations, and 24×7 service delivery since 1990. He was the technical visionary on the executive team of GoGrid, a major...
An Independent Perspective on Private Cloud
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over 4 years ago
by
Oliver Rist
I recently saw a great article by Greg Shields on TechTarget , called Defining the Hyper-V Cloud . (You'll need to register [free] to read it, but TechTarget is an excellent third-party source for IT insight, so it's well worth the effort.) In it he not...
Windows Azure Platform Lowers the Barrier to Innovation
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over 4 years ago
by
Larry Grothaus
While many customers are still in the education and evaluation phase when looking at ways that cloud computing can deliver benefits to their companies, there are certainly examples of how prominent businesses are already taking advantage of the new platform...
Exchange Online in Office 365
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over 4 years ago
by
Allen_Filush
This is a repost from the Office 365 blog from Jon Orton, product manager for Exchange Online. -- I'm Jon Orton, product manager on the Exchange team here at Microsoft. Welcome to our product insight series on Exchange Online. For our first post...
Hybrid Organization with Office 365 and SharePoint Online
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over 4 years ago
by
Allen_Filush
21apps is a Microsoft BizSpark Partner and a SharePoint business value, solutions and platform consultancy from the United Kingdom. In this guest blog, Ant Clay, Chief Strategy Officer of 21apps, shares his excitement around the launch of Office 365,...
Thought Leaders in the Cloud: Talking with Reuven Cohen, Founder and CTO of Enomaly
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over 4 years ago
by
Robert_Duffner
Reuven Cohen is the founder and CTO of Toronto-based Enomaly Inc. Founded in 2004, Enomaly develops cloud computing products and solutions, with a focus on service providers. The company's products include Enomaly ECP, a complete revenue-generating...
Enabling Supercomputing in the Cloud
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over 3 years ago
by
Larry Grothaus
One of the capabilities delivered by true cloud computing solutions is the power to dynamically scale up and down based on the needs that applications and users are placing on the service. This also correlates to one of the key benefits that businesses...
The Bridge Across Cloud Computing Worlds - IT Management Tools
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over 3 years ago
by
Larry Grothaus
With the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) 2011 conference fast approaching in March I wanted to touch on the role that IT management tools play in cloud computing including Private Cloud, Windows Azure public cloud, or solutions which span both worlds...
Thought Leaders in the Cloud: Talking with Bill Appleton, DreamFactory Founder and Cloud Services Expert
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over 3 years ago
by
Robert_Duffner
Bill Appleton is a leading expert on the client-side use of cloud services and the development of rich-media authoring tools. He has designed and written approximately three dozen professional software publications, including the first rich-media authoring...
Cloud First Policy for the U.S. Federal Government
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over 3 years ago
by
Larry Grothaus
I was reviewing some of the social media activities coming out of the RSA Conference sessions today, including a talk by the U.S. Federal Government CIO, Vivek Kundra, in which he touched on the U.S. Federal Government and their work with cloud computing...
Cloud Security with Windows Azure and Microsoft Global Foundation Services
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over 3 years ago
by
Larry Grothaus
With the RSA conference occurring this week and cloud computing being such a high interest topic, the two worlds of cloud and security are receiving increased visibility in the trade press. The Cloud Security Alliance , which Microsoft is part of, also...
Top 5 Questions to Ask Google
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over 3 years ago
by
Allen_Filush
I wanted to share a post from our WhyMicrosoft.com site by Ron Markezich, Corporate VP, Microsoft Online, which provides 5 questions CIO's should be asking when considering a cloud solution for their business. I've linked to the post here and included...
New Private Cloud Capabilities Available in Updates Today
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over 3 years ago
by
Oliver Rist
It's an exciting day with the availability of some significant updates from Microsoft which deliver new capabilities to our customers, especially for those of you working on private cloud projects. The Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 update , which...
Thought Leaders in the Cloud: The New Face of Cloud-based Start-ups - Carl Ryden, CTO of MarginPro
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over 3 years ago
by
Robert_Duffner
Carl Ryden is the chief technology officer of MarginPro, where he manages all product development activities. He is the author and developer of MarginPro's pricing and profitability management software. Carl worked with Mitchell Epstein at US Banking...
Email: Not Just a Commodity
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over 3 years ago
by
Allen_Filush
Interesting note in a blog post from Julia White of Microsoft, highlighting a Wall Street Journal article regarding Cisco pulling the plug on their Cisco Mail offering. In her post, Julia points out that Microsoft is "doubling down" on email and collaboration...
The Realities of Google Cloud Connect
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over 3 years ago
by
Allen_Filush
Some interesting notes in a blog post from my co-worker Tony Tai with the Office 365 team that I wanted to bring to your attention related to the Google Cloud Connect offering. Tony sheds some light on the realities behind the functionality as well as...
Mostly Cloudy Forecast at Microsoft U.S. Public Sector CIO Summit
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over 3 years ago
by
Larry Grothaus
This week Microsoft held its U.S. Public Sector CIO Summit in Redmond, and while we’re used to rain this time of year in Seattle (and most of the year for that matter….), the forecast at the event for the Public Sector was mostly cloudy ...
Evolution of Enterprise IT and Virtualization Infrastructures to Private Cloud
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over 3 years ago
by
Larry Grothaus
I was having lunch with a colleague yesterday and we were talking about the logical evolution underway in IT, which began a couple of years ago with the broad availability of server virtualization technology like Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V . ...
Businessweek on Cloud Providers and Customers
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over 3 years ago
by
Larry Grothaus
I was reading an interesting story just published by Bloomberg Businessweek titled “The Cloud: Battle of the Tech Titans”. The story covers some of the more obvious benefits of cloud computing such as reducing the costs associated with having...
Government Cloud Computing Commission Formed
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over 3 years ago
by
Larry Grothaus
I saw a brief article this morning on the Washington Post site about a government related cloud computing commission being formed to help provide recommendations to the federal CIO, Vivek Kundra, and the commerce secretary, Gary Locke. The Post...
Real Customers, Real Private Clouds
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Larry Grothaus
I wanted to highlight a post from David Greschler , Microsoft’s Director of Virtualization and Cloud Strategy, over on the VMBlog.com site that touches on a couple of customers using real Private Cloud implementations today. The customers include...
Better Cloud Collaboration, Better Healthcare
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Allen_Filush
Exciting news today as several new customers announced their move to the cloud with Microsoft Online Services. These customers join a growing list of others in realizing the benefits our hosted productivity solutions can have in fostering collaboration...
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