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Cloud computing 6/8/2011 1:55 PM

Apple, welcome to the cloud

Welcome, Apple, to the cloud. June 6, 2011 Apple announced its new iCloud service. For Cloud companies like yours truly (BlueCamroo) Apple's entry into the cloud raises all boats. The run up to iCloud helped push cloud computing into the headlines of major media organizations like CNN.

Tweet for more leads

Think of social media like web addresses back in the mid-1990s. Even companies like McDonald's couldn't really understand why they wanted to register a web address. At a minimum, lock up your company or personal name before someone else does. Just as you began to find new ways to incorporate the Internet itself into business, you will slowly begin to find ways to incorporate your social media sites into your business.
Cloud computing 1/8/2010 11:34 AM

Computer history has always been "clouded"

Cloud Computing: An Establish Model with a 40-Year Pedigree

Although Cloud Computing is touted as a new way of delivering applications, Cloud Computing has been an established business model since the 1960s when it was called a "time sharing system". In the time-sharing model, several "dumb" terminals (keyboards and monitors lacking CPUs) were networked to a mainframe or mini-computer, usually in a hub-and-spoke topology. Applications and data resided on the mainframe. Input was received via the terminal keyboard and output was then directed to the appropriate terminal monitor.

Cloud computing 1/4/2010 2:19 PM

Reaching into the Cloud

Sometimes in order to improve your business, you have to extend your reach. Sometimes that reach is to other target customers, sometimes to new suppliers, and sometimes to new technology. Reaching out is usually what takes our businesses to the next level.
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