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Yammer. Citation. Citation template. 10 reasons you should build your own cloud. Citation. Why the cloud must come back to earth. Cloud services seem to have got hung up on providing applications, but the focus needs to shift back to network resources as services, says Lori MacVittie. In the early days of cloud computing all the enthusiasm was about the network, but that focus has been quickly eclipsed by the promise of easy application deployment. The end user has become the centre of attention. The call to provide business users with what were described as ways to circumvent unresponsive IT organisations grew louder, while calls for network infrastructure services were quickly drowned out.

Of late, cloud computing seems to have stalled in its pursuit of the goal of IT as a service. Little in the way of infrastructure services has been announced above and beyond load-balancing services for applications. It's time to step back and refocus on what needs to be accomplished if we're ever going to reach the top of this technological Mount Everest.

Policies as services Enabling services. The Top Ten Considerations for Cloud Computing - CloudTweaks. Report: Cloud Computing Catching On in Emerging Markets. While cloud computing gains steadily in the U.S., U.K. and Germany (and rather slowly in Canada ), it's taking off in emerging markets like Brazil, China and India. According to a study by GfK Custom Research, and covered by FineChannel , cloud computing enjoys relatively high penetration rate in emerging markets, regardless of company size. According to GfK, decision makers in Brazil, China and India have a much more positive view of cloud computing and cite cost-effectiveness, flexibility and security as the main benefits. In contrast, decision makers in the U.S. and the U.K. see security as a barrier rather than a strength, and view flexibility as the main advantage.

But Fine Channel notes that data security is seen as a benefit by many in established markets as well. This fits with the BitNami, Cloud.com and Zenoss survey we looked at recently , which found that security is perceived as both a benefit and a risk by many technology decision makers. Photo by Jeffrey Bell. Cloud Computing: Solving The Backup Problem - Smb - Services - Citation. OnLive Desktop. Citation. Quickoffice Pro HD Is Now Capable Of Viewing And Editing Office 2010 Documents.

Quickoffice Pro HD, one of the App Store’s top Microsoft Office document viewing and editing applications for iPad, will now allow you to work on those Office 2010 documents when on-the-go. Identifiable by the “x” at the end of the file extension, recent Microsoft Office documents contain Open XML formatting that’s not present in earlier Office documents. You may be thinking, Quickoffice Pro HD already supports documents with .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx extensions. Yes, however, this is for Office 2007 documents. Quickoffice Pro HD v4.0 makes it possible to create, edit, and view Microsoft Word 2010 and Excel 2010 documents, plus view PowerPoint 2010 presentations. Overall features of Quickoffice Pro HD include: In addition to working with files locally, Quickoffice Pro HD offers connectivity with:

Welcome. Manage Projects For Free With Wunderlist For iPad [iOS Tips. Keeping your projects organized is hard; whether they’re for home, school, or work, projects tend to take on a life of their own. A good task manager can be essential to keeping the project moving, on time, and with a minimum of stress. wunderlist is available for the iPad, is free, and has some great features to boot, making it an obvious choice for many of us who need to manage our projects better. Once you’ve downloaded and installed wunderlist, it should open to a dual-paned view, with Lists on the left and tasks on the right. The Inbox has tutorial tasks set up in it already to show you the ropes. Tap the first task in the list, “Tap to edit me.” The Edit Tasks window will show up, allowing you to tap through and rename the item, add a Note, Due Date, or Reminder to the item, toggle the Priority label, and put it in a list.

That’s a lot of stuff for one tap, right? Adding new lists for task organization is easy as well, with a quick tap on the plus button above the Lists pane. Citation.