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Cloud Computing Conundrum At Coghead

Posted by Rich Chuckrey in Articles

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coghead.jpgJust as cloud computing picks up steam and recognition, Coghead’s PaaS cloud is closing down on April 30, 2009. Their failure to raise funds and monetize their business model is forcing all Coghead users into offloading data and rewriting their specialized drag-and-drop database applications.

Coghead’s conundrum is one to take note of and typical of the risk involved with moving operations into a cloud computing environment. Lose your cloud provider and your faced with data migrations, application redesign and even worse – company downtime.

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Cut The Fat With Google Business Apps And Microsoft Online Services

Posted by Rich Chuckrey in Articles

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greatsealConsider the cost involved with upgrading an email system for the company with a thousand mailboxes. Add up software, storage, servers, engineering and days [or weeks] of implementation, well, you’re staring down a bill close to $150K or more. On top of that add recurring maintenance, disaster recovery, and sys admin — you’re looking at almost doubling costs in the first year alone.

Then, you’re married to this system for 5 to 7 years. [Same goes for corporate productivity software like word processors, company portals, IM and so on.]

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Web-Based iMovie Rumour Not Plausible

Posted by Scott Jarkoff in Articles

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This time of year, every year, there are tons of Apple rumours floating around the intarweb because of the upcoming Macworld. Just about every Apple blog and so-called analyst has been informed from a “reliable source” about some supposed new hardware, updated design or modified software which will launch at Macworld in San Francisco later this month. If I had a nickel for every Apple rumour I might not have to hold a day job!

One particular article caught my eye because of a highly suspect claim. This is not to say that other rumours appear to have any more validity, just that this specific article caught my eye because of the implications if true.

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