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Category Archives: Cloud Computing

Amazon eases AWS deployments

The services are still innovative and solid, but the playful names like "Elastic Beanstalk" are starting to seem a little bit inappropriate, don't you think? Elastic Beanstalk is the l…

Exchange Hosting and Cloud Computing

How fast is the world of technology changing? I used to save files on a three-inch disk. If the files were too big I had to save them on a CD. Then one day along came the USB flash drive. My first …

Backing Up Your PC Online

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Times have changed. It’s not just that the possibility of backing up your PC online exists at all; it’s that there are so many good companies competing for your business on the issue….

The Zen of Website Optimization

Website Optimization has been made to seem like such as tedious, technical issue. But it doesn't have to be. Like most things in life, if you work at it for a while it becomes habit, a second na…

Disaster Plan and Backups

I've heard it said that real men don't backup. Well, I'm here to tell you, it ain't so…

Do you have a disaster recovery plan? Michael Gray talked recently about how he uses cloud co…

Office 2010: Micorsoft Moving to a Cloud-based FREE Business Model?

In the words of Mashable, it was expected and inevitable: Micorsoft is putting one of their flagship products, Office, one the web. Included in the web-based version of Office 2010 you'll find Wor…

If You LIKE the Clouds, You’ll Love Google’s Chrome OS (Maybe)

This shows clearly what Google is making with the Chrome OS – a web, or cloud, OS that puts the bulk of all user activity firmly up in the web. No heavy lifting on the user's netbook; that will a…

The Cloud Is Coming – and With It, Change for Business

BusinessWeek ran a couple of pieces recently on how cloud computing is changing both business and management.

The concept of cloud computing is one of a user sitting at a terminal taking advantage …

DocStoc & Scribd Start the Document Wars

I haven't paid this much attention until recently, but documents may soon be big business on the web…

The two main competitors in the new document wars are DocStoc and Scribd. Both sites are do…

Cloud Computing and Cloud Storage

It seems like I see more and more stuff about cloud computing and cloud storage recently. Much of it is coming out of the business media. Venture capitalists are interested in how much they can make o…