Entries from BizBox Blog on Slate tagged with 'Cloud Computing'
Cloud Computing Geeks: Click Here
While we claim to be smart enough to tell you that cloud computing is the way to go (particularly if you're a small business), we're not entirely positive that we're smart enough to sum up this article from InformationWeek that...
The Gmail Outage and Cloud Computing
We don't have much more to add to Feeling Lucky's take on yesterday's Gmail crash over at our sister site The Big Money: "As hair-pulling promptly commences throughout the country, cloud computing's reputation takes yet another hit." We'd only add...
What You Should Be Reading
Mid-August. You should be outside. But for once it gets dark out... Seth Godin speaks. A helpful, catch-all interview with Mr. Small Is The New Big. [OPEN Forum (which is published by our sponsor, American Express OPEN)] Healthiness is next...
Going Cloud
Google has received much attention for its new ad campaign for its suite of cloud-based software, Google Apps. It is urging customers to "Go Google"--to switch over to these applications to conduct their business. Switch over from what? Well,...
Microsoft Enters The Cloud
Big news on the cloud computing front: none other than the behemoth of the software industry, Microsoft, has announced that its new version of its hyper-dominant Office software suite will be linked to the Internet. By the end of this...
Day in the Cloud Scavenger Hunt!
As enthusiasic proponents of cloud computing, we were delighted to learn about the Day in the Cloud Challenge, which is, naturally, sponsored by Google Apps--the search-engine company's extensive suit of cloud software. The game--it appears to be something like an...
Cloud Computing Enters Its Adolescence
Two separate articles examine what might be termed cloud computing's messy early adolescence and how small businesses ought to respond. (For more of our take on cloud computing--we're big fans! particularly for small businesses--see here.) Both articles suggest there is...
The Google Outage and Cloud Computing
It is a dark, dark day for cloud computing advocates such as ourselves. We could go on and on about cloud computing's benefits, but at some point you do bump up against the fact that whatever you put in the...
Keep Your Head in the Cloud
We're cuckoo for cloud computing, as you can see here. We see it as a way for small businesses to bring overhead costs way down, make telecommuting and working from disparate locations much easier, improve security, and generally make life...
McKinsey Sez: Cloud Computing Best For Small Biz
We love cloud computing. We think it is a phenomenal way for smaller businesses to cut back on costs and level the playing field as they compete with larger corporations, for whom cloud computing tends to be more costly, less...
Microsoft Word, Google Docs...and Zoho Writer?
We at BizBox are, of course, devoted to looking out for and celebrating small businesses. Additionally, we have long held that one way small businesses can level the playing field, which in many ways tilts towards larger firms, is...
The Cloud Giveth, and The Cloud Taketh Away
We're long-time big fans of cloud computing for small businesses, and particularly of Google's suite of cloud software; we even personally relied on it a week or so ago. But neither cloud computing nor Google is perfect, and our advocacy...
Floating On A Cloud
We apologize for the paucity of posts over the past couple days. Unfortunately, the laptop owned by your trusty BizBox editorial producer came down with a failed hard drive, and this inhibited regular posting, the regular schedule of which...
Gmail: Ultra-Reliable, Not Reliable Enough
We are huge fans of cloud computing: the use of software that lets you do your business in the "cloud," such that your data exist (securely, ideally!) not on relatively inaccessible hardware but on the Internet--in the "cloud"--in a...
Look Who's Cloud Computing!
As certified cloud computing nuts (hint: it's cheaper!), we can only say: welcome, Microsoft! We look forward to the roll-out of Azure....
A Google Docs How-To
If you know us, you know we're nuts for cloud computing (and also, and relatedly, for the paperless office). It's vastly cheaper, it enables bigger things to get done by smaller and more disparate groups, and, if you do...
Why Now--Yes, Now!--Is The Time For Internet Start-Ups
Here's a bit of counterintuitive advice, courtesy of Entrepreneur.com: now is the time to launch an Internet company! No, the author isn't unaware of what's been going on in the economy (although the article was published last week); and,...
More on the Paperless Office
Check out the comments section of our post from last week on decreasing the amount of paper your office uses in order to lower costs and increase efficiency. None other than Bill Brikiatis, of document-imaging software company eCopy and...
Paper Is The New Papyrus
With Season 5 of The Office premiering tonight, we feel a little weird speaking out against paper, since that is after all the product that provides the livelihoods of the Dunder-Mifflin employees we love so. Still...we wouldn't be the...
Google Chrome: For All Your Browsing (And Other) Needs
If you haven't checked a computer over the past several days, then you may not have heard of Chrome, Google's new Web browser, which the search giant has built to compete with the big guns: The Mozilla Foundation's Firefox...
The Future of Cloud Computing; Cloud Computing Is The Future
Peter Bell, a general partner at Highland Capital, gives Forbes a wonderful interview on all things cloud computing. Read the whole thing. Takeaways: Cloud computing isn't just hype. "There will be a lot of carnage. But there will be...
The Privacy Hazards of Web 2.0
We've written of our love of so-called cloud computing, and of Google's wonderful, if still somewhat primitive, suite of cloud computing software such as Google Docs. But the danger in cloud computing is that you and your company's information...
The Downsides of Google
We've been such cloud computing and Google triumphalists recently that the interests of fairness behoove us to supply a counter-example. Gizmodo runs the positively Kafka-esque story of a Google customer named Nick--a customer who, unlike most, has actually paid...
In Praise of Gmail
We came across this paean to Gmail, Google's entirely-online email server, by a ReadWriteWeb columnist, and we can only second what he says about Gmail's Spam-stopping, search function (it is Google, after all!), and mobility. We'd add that its...
How Small Tech Start-Ups (And You!) Can Get Even Smaller
There was a fascinating article published yesterday on our partner site, Slate, about the new world of tech start-ups. Takeaway: innovations in open-source software, cloud computing, and other things that may be broadly grouped under the "Web 2.0" rubric...
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