The Internet has revolutionized the way we experience entertainment, from music to video games to reading books, so it was only a matter of time before television found its way into the Cloud. Of course, TV viewing had changed a lot over the years thanks to DVR, but Cloud services are taking television to a [...]
Each Thursday we like to bring you a weekly dose of humor! Sometimes the best ideas have been right in front of us for generations, and we just haven’t noticed it. According to this comic, it turns out that cloud computing dates waaaay back – to frontier times (and before computers or electricity). We’ve made [...]
Virtualization at its most basic involves creating a virtual rather than actual version of a hardware platform, operating system, storage device, or network resource. It brings all the promise and benefits of evolving technology into the future, while dredging up a major challenge from the (seemingly) distant past. Future promise Virtualized environments mean doing increasingly more with [...]
The business research firm Gartner, Inc. reported recently that over 80% of enterprise companies are considering ditching their old telephone services and trying out the relatively new VoIP technology. Gartner believes that within two years, VoIP will be the standard communication service for large businesses. However, as Search Financial Security Journal points out, there are still many [...]
Each Thursday we like to bring you a weekly dose of humor! Folks of a certain age (present company included) will recall a simpler time, when classrooms didn’t have smartboards or even whiteboards. We used good, old fashioned chalk. On a chalkboard. Scandalous! This week, Randy Glasbergen spotlights just how far we’ve come with [...]
There’s no questioning whether or not cloud computing can improve IT performance. Centralized computing resources are easier to maintain and can be distributed between projects on an ‘as-needed’ basis. As a result companies everywhere are attempting to deploy their own cloud models, but it seems that the private cloud will be a transient species at [...]
With mobile computing more commonplace than ever, security vulnerabilities, hackers and other threats are beginning to affect unaware users. These threats are everywhere, from the software that computers use daily to the networks and wireless connectivity spots that people use to get online quickly. However, it is easy to protect yourself from these threats if you can [...]