As an official Microsoft Network Partner, Shaping Cloud where
invited to their Partner Event in Manchester earlier this month to
discuss Microsoft's vision of the Cloud and how they are building a
platform to support the billions of users they hope to bring aboard
over the next few years. Here's what we found out.
Every company these days is considering their next move when it
comes to cloud computing. Some have made the move early and are
reaping the benefits as well as the unavoidable pain of being first
onto a relatively new platform. For every user with a fantastic
story about how Google Docs has saved their company time and money
there is another who just longs for the days when they had Excel
and Word.
Microsoft's new range of Cloud Services hope to bring the best of
both worlds; the same leading enterprise software that users know
delivered over their Azure cloud platform. This isn't some
side-project either, Microsoft currently have over 70% of all their
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Article first published as A Look Into How The Microsoft Cloud Is Taking Shape on Technorati. When Microsoft launched its Windows Azure platform back in February, it was primarily in response to offerings that were already on the market from Amazon and Google. While the reaction to Azure has been mostly positive, it still remained to be seen how Microsoft would capture the small and medium business market as well as the home user. Gradually the picture is becoming clearer; Microsoft aren't st...
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On Monday, Shaping Cloud founder (and lifelong Manchester United fan) Carlos Oliveira was invited to Old Trafford to cover the announcement of United's new £1m commitment to UNICEF. There he got to speak to Sir Alex Ferguson and Ryan Giggs about what it means to them to be part of the project.
You can read Carlos' blog about the event on the UNICEF website here....
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The team here at Shaping Cloud are proud to announce that we are now official Microsoft Small Business Specialists. We believe strongly that Enterprise level solutions shouldn't only be for Enterprise-scale companies, after all, even Enterprises hav...
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On Saturday I visited the excellent Manchester Museum Of Science And
Industry. It really is a fantastic place, not only to get a
real feel for what made Manchester the city it is today, but also
just to give some perspective on the incredible pe...
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Earlier this month we harnessed the power of social media by running a short survey on Twitter to find out what our followers think about cloud computing.
The results are a snapshot of what a selection of our Twitter followers know and their opi...
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