Steve Ballmer, pacing the stage at the CERAweek energy conference in Houston Wednesday night, touted cloud computing as the wave of the future. He pushed Microsoft’s Kinect system for its Xbox 360 console. He brought an actor on stage to demonstrate how Kinect’s sensors register the body motions of its users without the need for […]

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The new year is here, and many experts in the SQL Server universe see some big developments ahead. Predictions for the SQL Server market range from fiercer competition for Microsoft in the cloud, as more companies are moving from premises-based servers, to widespread adoption of virtualization technology and the growing popularity of self-service business intelligence […]

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When we first heard about cloud computing, public clouds got most of the attention. But as IT managers looked at the security risks of having data outside the corporate firewall, they turned their attention to private clouds, which analysts and various surveys suggest will get more enterprise investment in the next few years. But private […]

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A short summary of the benefits of the cloud for organizations from here. A key point is to pick a professional and fully redundant supplier. meshIP has redundant systems, data centers and fully backs up your data each day. ‘Cloud computing’ sounds like a complicated idea, but if you use Flickr to store your photos, […]

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