Stop Buying Servers has been upgraded to Thematic 0.9. The change wasn’t made entirely in the cloud. I had to use my desktop computer to download a zip file from ThemeShaper before uploading it to my blog host. Note to self: be on the lookout for a service that will allow you to access a [...]
I agree with what Jason Hiner says. I’m not a big netbook fan either, but they certainly are giving cloud computing a boost.
I do try to practice what I preach. From time to time I’ll mention a cloud-based application or service that I use all the time. Today’s entry is Autotask, a professional services automation (PSA) tool designed specifically for information technology consulting companies. I use it to: enter and track which recurring services my clients are [...]
One oft-stated concern about moving applications to the cloud is reliability? What happens if the cloud goes down? Google Apps Premier Edition had an outage earlier this week. Here’s how they explained it: Dear Google Apps customer, Between approximately 9AM to 12PM GMT / 1AM to 4AM PST on Tuesday, February 24, 2009, some Google [...]
Apparently, I signed up long, long ago for Yahoo! Briefcase. The only reason I know is that I got an e-mail telling me that Yahoo! Briefcase is being discontinued as of March 30, 2009. It seems that someone at Yahoo must have figured out that offering 30 MB of on-line storage space isn’t much of [...]
This blog is generally targeted to owners and employees of small businesses, but it’s good for that audience to see what consultants like me are reading in the trade journals that we get. After all, you don’t want to buy a service simply because it’s the one that offers the best markups for your consultant, [...]
Microsoft Office Live Workspace (MOLW) is one of Microsoft’s many cloud-based services. Microsoft describes the service thusly: Save your documents to the Web—for free! Access files from anywhere View documents from almost any computer with a Web browser No more flash drives—files are there when and where you need them Password-protected document sharing; you control [...]
Boston Globe technology reporter Hiawatha Bray writes about how to work with cloud-based documents when you have no connection to the internet. He reviews three products/services: Google Gears, Apple MobileMe, and Microsoft Live Mesh. I’ll post my own thoughts on these services after I have a chance to play with them.
Obviously, every small business needs e-mail. And every e-mail account needs a server to make the connection between one mailbox and another. One option is to have your own mail server, and the other is to have your mailboxes on someone else’s server. In the mid-to-late 1990s, only large companies could afford to purchase and [...]
Before anyone makes me apologize, A-Rod style ….
The initial post on this blog was composed offline, using Windows Live Writer. But is that really cheating?