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Wednesday, September 16, 2009
I keep hearing people talk about the 'cloud' and 'cloud computing'. Well; "Cloud computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet." ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing ). So, what is it? Web 3.0
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Friday, June 11, 2010
Increasingly when we are looking at e-learning purchases we are coming across terms like Application Service Provider, Software as a Service, Grid Computing, Utility Computing, Platform as a Service… Just this past week Microsoft launch a web based version of Microsoft office. This is often called infrastructure as a service.
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Thursday, November 5, 2009
One of my 15 fans asks, “Janet what the heck is cloud computing, when should I consider a cloud service model and when should I not?&# And, to which I responded…let’s try to break that down a bit… First, let me point to some existing definitions cloud computing. 8217; Cloud Service Models.
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Monday, March 22, 2010
There has been much written about Cloud Computing in recent months, and this presentation is a good resource to add to the mix; looking at what advantages, or disadvantages, can be expected for a library in the Cloud (I tweeted this presentation over the weekend but, after re-reading it, thought it worthy of a post here); Libraries and the Cloud.
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009
I keep hearing people talk about the ‘cloud’ and ‘cloud computing’ So, what is it? Well; “Cloud computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet.&# ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing ).
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Friday, May 1, 2009
A little while ago, I attended an executive briefing about cloud computing , hosted by SMS Management & Technology and presented by Paul Slakey , Director of Americas & Asia Pacific at Google , and Peter Coffee , Director of Platform Research at Salesforce.com. What is cloud computing? Head in the clouds.
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Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Earlier this week, Michael Bromley , Head of Online Services at Telstra Business , visited my workplace to provide me and my colleagues with an overview of cloud computing. What is cloud computing? in the cloud) and are accessed locally from a web browser, while the software and data are stored remotely on servers.
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Monday, December 22, 2008
Cloud Computing: Distributing your files away from your desktop and/or accessing programs and services across the Internet using large networks of remote servers. Used to be called distributed computing, but I think cloud computing sounds a little more friendly. Here we go again with 2008. World War 2.0:
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Saturday, June 19, 2010
have tried to encourage usage of the “cloud” for the team spread across locations working on the same documents/spreadsheets. We have SharePoint Server as an option but that’s mostly used as file storage, if at all. However for some reason working on the cloud just hasn’t take off. have explored Google Docs and Zoho.
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
What is SAAS and why is hosted better than having it on your own servers. Plus, what does being in the cloud actually mean? The bottom line without getting technical or overly detailed, the solution is hosted on your vendor’s servers and not hosted on your internal servers. Hosted Server Question to Ask.
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