I attended Microsoft’s annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Houston, Texas, from July 7-12. Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer kicked off the week with an impressive and passionate speech on how Microsoft has delivered on its promise of being “all in” in the cloud. More...

For the past 18 months, there’s been a lot of buzz in the cloud industry over the notion of “cloud brokerage.”  While the term has various meanings, it essentially describes the capability of an organization to select cloud services from different providers through a single point of entry (portal).The concept is similar to the popular travel websites that offer consumers access to services from different airline, hotel and car rental providers and enable them to choose the best services for their travel needs. More...

We’ve spent a lot of time in this blog listing the business benefits that can be achieved in the cloud. Today I’d like to write about harnessing the growing use and power of enterprise social networking through the cloud. More...

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