Microsoft has just launched/released the latest incarnation of their Office software suite… and by the looks of it the hype and buzz about this latest version is warranted.
Some of the most notable improvements in MS Office 2010 include:
- MS Web Apps: A free web-based version of Word, Excel and Powerpoint… sitting on the Cloud… and [...]
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Microsoft Office 2010 is here…
Ubuntu: Cloud Computing to the masses…?
This post on the Wired blog refers to how the next version of the Ubuntu will be looking at adding all the tools for developers to connecting and move their apps onto the Cloud on the Ubuntu Linux OS.
Shuttleworth is hoping that Ubuntu can do for cloud computing what it has done for Linux — [...]
IBM teaming up with universities for Cloud Computing R&D…
I’m in Doha, Qatar at the moment visiting some family, and found this article particularly relevant. TheRegister post refers to how IBM has stepped up it’s research in Cloud Computing by teaming up with Universities in the US, Qatar and South Africa. The projects fall in various fields and range from Oil and Gas to [...]
Capacity risks of Cloud Computing..
Silicon Alley Insider lists some of the recent capacity issues seen by Microsoft, Amazon and SalesForce… on their Cloud platforms. Whatever the reasons it looks like all companies had under-estimated the interest in their products/services and could not cope with the requests…
Looks like they’ll need to ramp up server and bandwidth capacity in their data [...]
Microsoft’s online failures…
Microsoft is undoubtedly still the king of desktop software, with their virtual monopoly of operating systems. Sure they have competition from Apple and open source applications, but in reality they still have a very enviable monopoly market share. On the enterprise side Microsoft is also huge, successful and profitable with it’s Exchange, SQL servers and [...]
CloudFront… the CDN from Amazon
More news from the Cloud…
Amazon has announced the launch of CloudFront, the Content Delivery Network (CDN) to complement it’s Simple Storage Solution (S3) and EC2… both part of the cloud computing platform Amazon Web Services (AWS). This CDN service will now provide an efficient network for distribution of content that will rival the likes of [...]
Possibilities from the Cloud…
I’ve written several post about Cloud Computing over the last few weeks, particularly with the announcements coming out of Google, Amazon, Windows Azure and SalesForce’s latest ventures. But I have not really looked into or discussed what Cloud Computing will actually facilitate, or how it will change computing.
This post by Nicholas Carr (on his Rough [...]
Reporting for the Cloud…
The official Google blog announced that they’ve opened up the Visualization API to include any data source. Stepping back a bit, earlier this year Google introduced the Visualization API for developers to render reports, charts, pivot tables, heatmaps and other visualization imagery from data in Google Spreadsheets. This API is no longer restricted to Google [...]
Windows Azure… MS in the clouds…
So… we’re back to Microsoft’s venture into the world of Cloud Computing. In the space of a couple of month’s the project has gone from being called Windows Strata to Windows Cloud to Windows Azure (Azure Services Platform).
Inevitably the official announcement at the PDC2008 (Professional Developers Conference) created an influx of blog activity on TechCrunch, [...]
Amazon enhancements to the Cloud…
I’m a big fan of both the principle and theory behind Cloud Computing, so naturally I was quite interested when TechCrunch reported a couple days back some advancements to the Amazon EC2 service. The changes (listed below – as per TechCrunch) will most definitely help get more companies moving off internal infrastructures and costly data [...]
