by Joseph Forbes | Mar 31, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, INTERNET, MONEY, NERD NEWS, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY, Web Hosting
from the say-goodnight dept. Virtualization, cloud services and software-as-a-service (SaaS) is making it much easier to shift IT infrastructure operations to service providers, and that is exactly what many users are doing. Of the new data center space being built in...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 30, 2013 | Blog Entry, Cloud Apps, DATA, INTERNET, MONEY, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY, Web Hosting
Expion wins our test of eight enterprise-grade social media monitoring tools As businesses make more use of social networks, the number of engagement, analysis and monitoring tools has exploded. Enterprises are trying to understand their return on social media...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 12, 2013 | HACKING, HAPPINESS, HARDWARE, NERD NEWS, Technical Support, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY, Web Hosting
Your video game console is great for playing games, but you might not realize it’s also one of the best media centers around. Here’s how to set up all of the modern consoles so you can stream videos and music to them right from your computer. The PS3 and...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 28, 2013 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, SECURITY, Technicals, Web Hosting
from the keeping-the-lights-on dept. There has been worldwide (all locations) total outage of storage in Microsoft’s Azure cloud. Apparently “Microsoft unwittingly let an online security certificate expire Friday, triggering a worldwide outage in an online...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 2, 2013 | NERD NEWS, SECURITY, Web Hosting
from the just-because-you’re-paranoid-doesn’t-mean-they-aren’t-after-you dept. Last week the CEO ServiceNow made a minor splash by claiming that it was awfully easy for a cloud provider to spy on the data they stored for you or discriminate based on...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 2, 2013 | INTERNET, NERD NEWS, Web Hosting
from the click-here-to-subscribe dept. “Microsoft’s release of Office 2013 represents the latest in a series of makeover moves, this time aimed at shifting use of its bedrock productivity suite to the cloud. Early hands-on testing suggests Office 2013 is...
