Thinking about moving your business or personal information to the cloud. Here are some things you need to consider so the sky doesn’t fall on you.

All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the governing body for technical education in India as part of India’s Ministry of Human Resource Development, has adopted Microsoft Live@edu as one solution amongst many such initiatives with IT majors and Industries.

IDC — through a study commissioned by Microsoft — forecasts that spending on cloud computing will generate roughly 14 million new jobs by 2015, as well as bring in $1.1 trillion per year in revenue.

Today there are companies and there are cloud-computing companies. Initially, cloud computing services were regarded as little more than some fad. The gains that companies have attained in productivity and profitability have been drivers for its use. Having everything on-the-go and being able to use the cloud for day-to-day operations has become an inevitable reality for many of us at work or play.

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a non-regulatory agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is responsible for developing standards and guidelines, including minimum requirements, for providing adequate information security for all Federal agency operations and assets. These guidelines may be used by non-governmental organizations on a voluntary basis. The guidelines are not subject [...]

We are living in the era of smartphones, wireless networks, e-mail and tablets, however, several businesses are still tied to paper. If you spend a lot of money on paper and ink, here are some ways to save money.

Project Daytona is designed to support a wide class of data analytics and machine learning algorithms. Project Daytona is part of an active research and development project in the eXtreme Computing Group of Microsoft Research and made its debut at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit.

Microsoft’s patents about gestures reveals more about the company’s one cloud based OS to rule them all strategy.

The much awaited laptop powered by Google Chrome (a cloud-based operating system) is all set for launch on June 15. The Chromrebook should always be connected to the Internet in order to make use of its functionalities. In other words, everything will be on cloud and you’ll need Internet to access all of the apps, documents, photos, movies etc. Installing softwares or updating them, taking backup of files or running anti-virus checks and all other PC related tasks will be eliminated as everything will be done over the cloud.

Amazon’s AWS takes down about half the Internet.

Like so many other advances in technology, cloud services are most likely here to stay. Here are a few predictions for the future of cloud apps.

Times have changed. Largely thanks to technology, you can have a fully functional office with nothing more than a computer. Cloud computing can help shrink the office even further.

mSpot is a cloud based music streaming service that lets users play their favorite songs across multiple devices like PC, Android phones and Mac.

According to a report released by consulting firm Zinnov Management Consulting, India’s cloud computing market will be around USD 1 billion over the next five years.

People have recognized SaaS (software as a service) as the future of business intelligence and other companies are racing to try and catch up.