I don’t know if things will change all that much in 2011, but the author does seem to cover the “and beyond” part of the headline fairly well.
I don’t typically like perform prognostications but it is a new year and I have been thinking about what it means for our industry. Here’s what I see 2011 and beyond looking like for the IT pro in light of the impetus towards cloud based services.
Here are ten handy tips for network administrators … almost as handy as an out of band management solution.
#1 How to create your own Cat 5 patch cables
For do-it-yourselfers, knowing how to create your own Cat 5 patch cables in the length that you want can be very handy and save you money. Jack Wallen shows you how to get it right. Read the original post.
Cloud computing is an interesting concept for things like notebooks and netbooks, but I just hope that it isn’t used as an excuse to cut back on the amount of storage offered on PCs and laptops …
If the world needs an OS for netbooks and notebooks that depends on cloud connectivity, Google has the product for it – but not for six or seven months
… And the debate about breaking up Microsoft still rages on …
By Joe Wilcox, Betanews
Ten years ago this month, Microsoft settled its antitrust case with the US Justice Department and handful of suing states. The settlement eventually ended government plans to break up Microsoft into two companies. Yesterday, a Microsoft shareholder asked why the company doesn’t breakup now. It’s a good question. From a shareholder perspective, breakup is probably the best way to return value back to company owners.
There certainly is a lot of money being thrown at cloud computing these days …
The technology we use every day is move ever more relentlessly towards the cloud. This isn’t a new concept, it’s been around since the birth of Hotmail and other similar webmail services.
There certainly are a lot of articles about Cloud Computing lately …
I am scheduled to do a presentation on Virtualization and Cloud Computing later this month at Microsoft Canada TechDays. As part of my presentation I will be demonstrating some cloud services. My plan is to demonstrate both a SaaS (software as a service) offering and an IaaS (infrastructure as a service) offering. I chose to use Microsoft Business Productivity Online (BPOS) and a Rackspacecloud.com Windows 2008 R2 Server.
Here’s some food for thought for those who are considering a move to cloud based computing …
Earlier this month I attended a Red Hat sponsored Cloud Camp. (Full disclosure: They gave me a hat — guess what colour it is?) One of the most interesting discussions for me centered on Red Hat’s recently announced Cloud Engine. I found the Deltacloud API concept quite compelling. Without getting into technical details of an as yet unreleased product, let me quickly outline the parts that I found most exciting by describing a possible future scenario of how the Cloud Engine would work using the Deltacloud functionality:
For those who can’t wait for the official release of Office 365, here’s how to sign up as a beta tester …
Mike covered Office 365 before here on Ghacks. Without rehashing what has already been said, Office 365 is a cloud based service by Microsoft that brings Microsoft Office, Sharepoint, Exchange and Lync together in the cloud. The service aims at business and organizations who do not want to invest in local server solutions by working in the cloud instead.
Hopefully, the convenience of a cloud based version of Office will make up for the steep price …
Microsoft have now announced a beta of their Office 365product suite for businesses. The suite is the long anticipated hosted solution for exchange and sharepoint. In itself these hosted services will save a great many companies from having to purchase and maintain their own server rooms, but Office 365 brings much more to the table than just that.
