I remember 80′s movies showing video phones so you can talk and see who you’re talking to at the same time.  Well, the technology has been around for a while now but really hasn’t gone mainstream past big business.  I think video is now poised to infiltrate the home and small business. There are several [...]

When I saw a commercial on tv from Microsoft saying something to the affect of “go to the cloud” I knew this tech buzzword was finally mainstream. So, what is the cloud? And, more important, why should I care of about the cloud? What is the cloud? Instead of storing your data (mail, photos, spreadsheets, [...]

I posted several times about how I have not been hearing as much about cloud computing as I did a year ago.  Well, I think I’m wrong.  Lately i’ve been reading much about cloud services, SaaS (Software as a Service), hosted applications and cloud security.  In an update on Slashdot they remark about a story [...]

10-12 months ago cloud computing was all the rage. Google, Amazon, Dell and others were and still are investing serious sums of money building massive data centers to host your business applications and data. Hosting data offsite for a fee on another larger company’s servers is not new. However, placing your business applications, such as [...]