by Pete Knight on May 15, 2013
in Backups, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Computing, IT, Mobile, Security, Storage, Technology, Trends
The Cloud Is Killing The PC, And Giving It New Life For several months we have been hearing about the imminent demise of the Personal Computer. After all, new computer sales dipped 14% last year, so surely the industry must be doomed, Doomed, DOOMED! The personal computer industry has certainly slumped, but these are dynamic companies. It is probably unwise to write them off because of a slump. Looking at the reasons for the slump is instructive. Some believe that the market is being lost to mobile and cloud applications. This school of thought holds that the newer, smaller, and
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Are PCs Committing Suicide? The Windows 8 Buyer Reactions When we use the term “Personal Computer”, we are generally talking about machines that can trace their ancestry to the original IBM 5150 PC, the computer architecture that brought computing to the masses. Introduced in 1981, the 5150 architecture, along with the Microsoft PC-DOS operating system, became the standard upon which the modern computer industry is based. Arguably, the Microsoft operating system and the Microsoft Windows OS’s which followed had more influence on computers becoming a part of our everyday life than the hardware it ran on. There are voices in
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by cloudtweaks on February 19, 2013
in Backups, Business, BYOD, Cloud Computing, Computing, Google Cloud, Google Drive, Google OS, SaaS, Storage, Technology, Trends
The Office 365 vs Google Apps Battle: Who Will Dominate Enterprise Software? Long ago in the days of yore, computing looked very different. Everyone had a PC that they were tethered to at their desk, and that PC almost always had Microsoft Office installed. Eventually, people were hard-pressed to do their job without it; it became an omnipresence, a giant. It’s no surprise that this occurred; Office was designed for the era of PCs, and it worked very well with them. But one day something happened: the cloud came along. And eventually, it started raining hard on the Microsoft Office
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The Storage Wars: Microsoft Hops Onto The Price-shed Bandwagon Last week’s wrap-up of the on-going cloud storage price wars between Google and Amazon ended off with a humble suggestion for Microsoft: wait for nothing and plunge straight into the cloud storage price-drop showdown. It turns out that the software giant actually did make up its mind to join the party real soon, responding to the soaring market competition in style. Microsoft made a pronounced entry into the ballroom by announcing price sheds for its Windows Azure Storage, and that as well, as much as a hefty 28 percent (how’s that for a stunner). “Reducing prices
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The Cloud: Focusing On Cloud Performance – Part 2 Continued from Part 1 Companies are usually recommended to do a workload analysis exercise before deciding on moving a process to the cloud and choosing a provider. For vendors it is, again, critical to understand in both business and computational terms (like number of records, size distributions, CPU and memory consumptions) the loads of the companies they wish to serve. While this may sound obvious, the outcome of a study conducted by the IEEE will explain why it needs to be articulated. The study published in November 2010, Performance Analysis of Cloud
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by cloudtweaks on September 3, 2012
in Business, Cloud Computing, Computing, Images, Infographic, IT, Microsoft, Security, Technology, Uncategorized
Cloud Infographic: Built From The Cloud Up Infographic Source: Microsoft TechNet
by cloudtweaks on April 24, 2012
in Accounting, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Computing, Contributors, Guest Writers, Host, IT, Microsoft, SaaS, Security, Storage, Technology, Trends
The Cloud Scares Me, Why Manufacturing Should Think and Work More Like Microsoft!!! Supply management and manufacturing is now about data, massive numbers of transactions created and shot through thousands of pathways around complex global information networks most wetware cannot, or would prefer not to imagine. Migraine city! Added to the ordinary business of running a company are the countless signals and communications around customer and producer activities – orders, IP such as drawings and concepts, RFQ’s, invoices, shipping documents, etc. It’s blinding, and it’s no wonder that so much fear surrounds the very word “Cloud.” In fact, that CIO
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Bill Gates Caves In to the Cloud? Apparently, even Bill Gates battled his own personal Bogeyman. A new article penned by Austin Edwards, aka “The Motley Fool,” alleges that the technological legend was forced into an early retirement by a fear of the then unknown and upcoming “cloud.” Apparently Mr. Gates had sent a foreboding message to the top flight members of his company, alerting them to a “disruptive wave [which was] about to wash over the entire world, forever changing the way we get information and do business.” To save face, Gates would never publicly name the cloud as
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