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Microsoft Office 365 Debuts With Handful of Hosting Partners
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the software giant’s long-awaited Office 365 cloud-based productivity suite on June 28 along with about 15 hosting partners covering many different geographies around the world. Microsoft showcased Office 365’s identical look in the cloud to on-premise Office applications and documents. The company also highlighted Office 365’s integration with Windows Phone…
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Will Amazon and Microsoft BPOS Outages Kill the Cloud
After a few high profile cloud outages – Amazon and Microsoft – in the past few months, some may be wondering, will cloud adoption slow down as a result? The short answer: probably not. But let’s back up a bit and look at this white hot, newer trend of “the cloud.” In the realm of…
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IT Forecast Increasing Cloudiness
IT Forecast Increasing Cloudiness More than 70 percent said that by 2014, a third of all IT organizations will be providers of cloud services to customers or business partners. No Title Almost 80 percent of IT executives said that cloud service brokers that provide integration, management, security and other services across public cloud offerings will…
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Dropbox Password Protection Function Disabled By Bug
Online storage service Dropbox accidentally turned off passwords for four hours, potentially exposing data belonging to its 25 million customers to unauthorized users. The breach occurred when the company applied a code change at 4:54 p.m. EST on June 19 that caused problems with the authentication mechanism, Arash Ferdowsi, Dropbox CTO and founder, wrote in…
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MSPs, SaaS Providers Get a Handle on Cloud Computing Costs With Uptime Software
IT systems management vendor Uptime Software has introduced a new tool designed to help businesses get a handle on the real cost of cloud computing. Uptime Software’s cloud-based tool is designed to provide accurate real-time cost information about cloud computing. The tool was designed with SaaS providers and MSPs in mind to help them price…
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25 Facts About Rackspace
25 Facts About Rackspace Rackspace was founded in 1998 by Richard Yoo, Dirk Elmendorf and Patrick Condon when they found that the customers of an earlier ISP they founded actually needed most assistance in figuring out how to host their applications. No Title Since then, Rackspace has grown into a massive operation, bringing in $230…
