Adopting Cloud and how the network now strikes back
With each passing day the number of IT people taking the plunge and opting for Cloud is only increasing. Considering the benefits that Cloud Computing confers, this doesn’t really come as a big surprise, especially with the kind of freedom Cloud to employees to work where they want to work from along with the advantage of cost cutting for businesses.
However for any software as soon as the initial surge and the dust settles down, the real work begins. It’s no doubt that cloud computing is growing at an alarming rate, but the real pressure is on the network operators than the enterprises alone.
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Big Data with Big Problems
The Undercover Economist, Tim Harford offers a rather nuanced but also a disapproving view of Big Data. According to him the actual data- sets are not comprehensive at all and that they are even more prone to statistical errors that are a regular at analytic science.
Much of Big Data is theory free and since the correlation is repeatable and observable it is safely assumed that it is real even if you don’t have a clue why it exists. He also explains further saying, “If you have an inkling of what exactly is behind a correlation, you will naturally not know what would cause the correlation to break down.”
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Microsoft’s Office apps for iPad help steer in new times
Microsoft has released an iPad version of its popular Office software suite. This comes as a breakthrough indicating that there certainly are new times on the rise under a CEO who promises to focus more on the devices rather than trying to protect the organization’s Windows Franchise.
Four years after Apple Inc. released the tablet computer that contributed to a steady decline in sales of desktops and laptop machines, it was only last week after this lull, that the company unveiled the much awaited iPad apps for Microsoft’s word processing, spreadsheet and the presentation software.
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SharePoint -an ‘arduous enterprise collaboration platform’
It’s a known fact by now that SharePoint has had problems. However the Radicati Group’s recent reports that contain certain words are of the kinds that would make Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO, more than happy. As per Microsoft SharePoint Market Analysis, 2014-2018, edited by Sara Radicati, it states that, ‘Microsoft offers more powerful enterprise collaboration for business users and that it ironed out the wrinkles in the 2013 edition itself.’
It is quite unlikely that such claims will go unchallenged especially in the sync space and file sharing, wherein companies like Dropbox and Box claim to offer better collaboration possibilities and easier file sharing than SharePoint does.
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