When we last left The Cloud, our strange visitor from another planet, we learned that he has always been there, behind the scenes. But recently he has taken off his disguise and is really coming forward to the aid of people, businesses and corporations all over the world.
But just what are The Cloud’s superpowers? Read more…
This week’s Start-Up league post is dedicated to choosing the best cloud hosting platform. We recently covered three cloud hosting providers in the first slideshow and now we are proceeding to the second part.
This time we’ll take a look at VPS.Net and Cloudlayer. Read more…
NoSQL databases are quickly becoming the hottest buzzword technology, and for good reason. According to a survey done by couchbase, the developers behind couchDB, nearly half of the 1,300 respondents surveyed indicated that they had invested in NoSQL projects in the first half of the year. Couchbase also claims that 70% of companies with more than 250 developers responded saying they would fund NoSQL projects in 2012. NoSQL databases offer some very promising features, that may provide advantages for start-ups who choose to use a NoSQL solution for their databases. This article will strictly show how NoSQL pertains to start-ups, and hopefully give the reader plenty to chew on when deciding whether or not to use a NoSQL database. Below is a quick breakdown of the reasons the respondents in Couchbase’s survey are considering the switch to NoSQL. Read more…
NoSQL Databases have generated lots of buzz and debates these days. Some of the industry leaders claiming that NoSQL is nothing really new and others arguing the benefits of NoSQL databases.
Whatever the outcome of these debates is, the fact is that NoSQL is a hot topic today…. and Google Trends confirms this. During the last couple of years the number of NoSQL searches has gone from nowhere to the skies.
No doubt, NoSQL databases are gaining popularity among developers and enterprises and this trend seems to grow as we see new entrants entering the NoSQL scene. Monitis, our sister brand, is also looking forward into this new trend and lately we have seen many custom monitors developed for monitoring NoSQL databases. This article is an introduction to DynamoDB, one of the latest additions in the NoSQL movement. Read more…
Office365 is the successor of Microsoft BPOS (Business Productivity Online Standard Suite) and it’s basically an online service allowing organizations’ employees to share information through the Internet. Office 365 consists of several Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products, such as Exchange Online, Lync Online, and SharePoint online, together with the common Microsoft Office applications, such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, these are offered bundled free as Office Web Apps. Office365 allows employees to login with their accounts and then create, share, co-work, and send documents and messages. It is part of Microsoft’s cloud computing solution.
Let’s take a closer look at the components of Office365:
- Office Web Apps – allows you to use the basic features of Office Professional Plus through a simple web browser, all the major browsers are supported. Read more…
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