Recently, the Wall Street Journal published an article claiming that email’s reign as a primary form of communication is over. The article focused mainly on personal communications and looks at how texting and social networking have replaced e-mail as the primary method of communication. When looking at corporate e-mail, however, the trend is very different. Email is becoming a more powerful tool than ever before. What has changed is how it is used.
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Cloud Computing and SaaS – A review of Gartner’s Webinar
Friday, July 24th, 2009I sat in on a great webinar the other day titled “The Real Truth About Cloud, SaaS and Saving Money Now”. This was presented by Daryl Plummer of Gartner as part of their Webinar series.
There were a lot of very interesting topics covered. First and foremost, he provides a clear definition of cloud computing. Gartner’s definition is “a style of computing where scalable and elastic IT-related capabilities are provided ‘as a service’ to external customers using Internet Technologies”.
Clouds vs. Data Centers
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009It seems as though every company that offers a web based or SaaS product is now claiming that they are offering it in the cloud. But are they? Based on what I can tell, it seems like most just have your typical data center. Sure, they may have great features like multiple mirrored locations in case of outages, backups and all the other bells and whistles that come with both a data center and a cloud, but, are they “in a cloud”?
