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Microsoft giving 100GB of OneDrive storage to Bing Rewards members
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2014-02-28 00:37
When Microsoft was forced to change the name of its cloud storage from SkyDrive, many people thought it was unfair -- myself included. After all, SkyTV is an entirely different product. But oh well, what's done is done. Truth be told, I like the OneDrive name better; it was a blessing in disguise.
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Microsoft, Oracle name the date to consummate Azure deal
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2014-02-11 07:12
Microsoft has written to Oracle-on-Azure users, letting them know that as of March 12th they'll be paying for the Oracle bits of it.
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Moving to Office 365? Dig deep into your options first
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2014-01-09 02:10
Measure twice, cut once -- this wise adage explains the value of pausing and making sure you know the potential results of your decisions. With Office 365, there are so many different plans and options that it's important to know what you gain (or lose) before you choose one.
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5 Tips to Keep Your Data Secure on the Cloud
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2013-12-17 03:41
The number of personal cloud users increases every year and is not about to slow down. Back in 2012 Gartner predicted the complete shift from offline PC work to mostly on-cloud by 2014. And it's happening.
Today, we rarely choose to send a bunch of photos by email, we no longer use USB flash drives to carry docs. The cloud has become a place where everyone meets and exchanges information. Moreover, it has become a place where data is being kept permanently.
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Amazon opens doors to Kinesis
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2013-11-15 01:13
The more data you put in a cloud, the harder it is to migrate away. And so Amazon's new "Kinesis" data ingester is a neat piece of technology, and at the same time a canny way to turn Amazon Web Services into the Hotel California of the cloud.
Kinesis was announced by the web bazaar's chief technology officer Werner Vogels in a speech at the company's re:Invent conference today. It's essentially Amazon's attempt to fire up a commercial variant of open-source data processing and messaging engines Storm, Spark Streaming, and Kafka.
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