Archive for the ‘Cloud computing’ Category

The benefits of Virtualizing Applications [Infographic]

Thursday, January 26th, 2012

EMC.com has released an interesting infographic about the benefits of virtualizing applications. Our clients’ interest to SaaS development services proves that the opportunities of virtualization exceed the impact of threats. The same conclusion can be made after reviewing the infographic, that was created based on the data of the survey by IDG Research Services, conducted among over 500 senior IT decision-makers  at enterprise companies in June, 2011. (more…)

Ideas for your Legacy Software

Friday, November 18th, 2011

obsolete software problemModern business requirements change very quickly. After a few months (rarely years) even the best software product may be referred to ‘legacy software’. So what to do next?

The key point is that every company should plan the ways software application will be maintained and upgraded even before it is released. But what to do if for some reasons you have to deal with a legacy software product that no longer meets your requirements, but can not be immediately replaced? (more…)

What makes Amazon’s cloud services so successful?

Monday, November 7th, 2011

aws_successAmazon Web Services (AWS) have become #1 area of growth for the company, as their latest report states. AWS grow even faster, than Amazon’s consumer electronics, demontrating 87% year-over-year growth and reaching $1B revenues in 2011.

Randy Bias has analyzed this success in his recent post for CloudAve.com.  He notes that AWS will be a $16B by 2016, thus becoming the biggest  infrastructure and hosting business in the world. So what are the drivers that make Amazon more successful than the other technology giants? (more…)

Google invites Microsoft Office users onto its cloud

Monday, February 28th, 2011

Google released Google Cloud Connect for MS Office users

Google has released its Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office users that have yet to discover Google Docs.

Google Cloud Connect allows Microsoft Office users to collaborate, share and synchronise Word, Excel and Powerpoint files. The plugin gives users the ability to upload files to Google’s servers and have a unique URL.

Due to Microsoft’s half-hearted support of Office for Mac, Google’s Cloud Connect plug-in is only available for Windows users. Google said, “Unfortunately due to the lack of support for open APIs on Microsoft Office for Mac, we are unable to make Google Cloud Connect available on Macs at this time. We look forward to when that time comes so we can provide this feature to our Mac customers as well.”

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Google Cloud Connect Brings MS Office Files to Google’s Cloud

Friday, February 25th, 2011

google-cloudGoogle launched their Cloud Connect product in a limited beta late last year, hoping to take advantage of the high cost of upgrades from Office 2007 to Office 2010. After all, Office 2007 was pretty good and who needs all those Microsoft collaboration features if they’re built into Google Docs, right?

Of course, if you’re an avid Office user, then you know that Office 2010 is absolutely worth the upgrade, especially when combined with their hosted or on-premise collaboration solutions. However, if you just create documents or bang away on spreadsheets or live for DBP (Death by PowerPoint), then all the nifty doodads in Office 2010 don’t mean much. For these users, Google is happy to help them automatically load standard Office documents into Google’s cloud and enable collaboration via Google Docs. On Thursday, Google announced that this feature was available in all Google Apps domains, giving legions of Office-using, fence-sitting, Google Apps-dabbling users Nicorette for their desktop applications.

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