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, [...]

IDC, the tech industry analysts, have come out with their predictions for 2010 – and it’s a model that heavily involves the development and growth of the Cloud. First some general IT industry forecasts: – growth is expected to return to the IT industry, and IDC is forecasting a more than 3% expansion for the [...]

At the 4th International Cloud Computing  Conference & Expo, held the first week of November, Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan compiled a survey of a group of CEOs and CTOs at cloud companies, and the topic and questions all had to do with “The State of Cloud Computing.” I read with keen interest a story about [...]

Schedule load tests at your convenience! Press Release San Jose, CA – Oct 9, 2009 – Monitis Inc., a leading provider of affordable cloud-based performance management solutions, today announced a new scheduling feature for its on-demand load testing product. Monitis’ WebLoadTester is an on-demand website load and stress testing service. It allows unlimited virtual usage [...]

As businesses around the world chase productivity gains from cloud computing, IT managers are being pressed to switch to this virtual infrastructure to support mobile apps and data and solve imposing business challenges in a more efficient, low-cost way than traditional IT and process management practices. Not to add to the pressure, folks, but I [...]

Let me ask you: Whether you’re already computing on the cloud or just thinking about making the change, are you worried about the security of data stored online – versus internally in your own systems? I encourage you to comment and respond because this seems to be a major sticking point among businesses when they [...]

I read about a company, Franz Inc., which makes advanced Semantic Webtools, that provides a perfect example of the dramatic cost benefits of cloud computing. Seems Franz Inc. wanted to perform a critical test to its software across multiple machines and databases, but the company didn’t have machines or the software, and it would have [...]