Cloud Computing News

Cloud computing news digest – 7 Nov 2011

General Motors to Use Google Apps ow.ly/7iOrP jQuery 1.7 released ow.ly/7iJ2Y Development in the cloud with Cloud 9 IDE ow.ly/7iIMP Yo! Sushi to Save 40% by moving to cloud computing ow.ly/7iIHx Amazon SNS does SMS | Morgan Hill Consultants Ltd ow.ly/7i5Sv Trinity Mirror chooses … Continued

Amazon SNS does SMS

Amazon SNS allows developers to send messages from applications and systems on a pay-what-you-use basis. As for pricing, sending via SMS is the most expensive option within Amazon SNS: although the first 100 SMS messages are free any subsequent messages are charged at … Continued

Cloud computing news digest – 31 Oct 2011

The Chef, the Puppet, and the Sexy IT Admin – Wired magazine has determined that the emerging hybrid of DevOps is offically sexy ow.ly/7bPzc SQS Director explains the importance of testing in the cloud bit.ly/sgnaDT Enterprise Cloud Licensing basics bit.ly/vKr7Na … Continued

Alerts in Microsoft SharePoint 2010

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 provides a notification service called Alerts.  Alerts can be used to notify user(s) of events happening on the SharePoint content. For example, Alerts can be set on the following content for the following events. When a new … Continued

Sencha releases mobile HTML5 cloud

The maker of the front-end Javascript frameworks Ext JS and Sencha Touch, Sencha, has made available its Sencha.io cloud platform for beta testers. Sencha.io provides mobile web application developers with a set of cloud computing services that aid development and … Continued

Cloud computing news digest – 24 Oct 2011

We’re trying out a more compact news digest from this week onwards with succinct descriptions and links to the source material. Morgan Hill Consultants will be talking about cloud computing for non-techies presentation at the IT in Housing Conference and … Continued

IT in Housing Conference and Exhibition 2011

Morgan Hill Consultants will be speaking at the National Housing Federation IT in Housing Conference and Exhibition 2011, which will be held on the 22 – 23 November 2011 at Olympia Conference Centre, London, UK. We will be providing an … Continued

Dropbox raises $250 million funding

One of the leading consumer cloud storage companies Dropbox has raised $250 million in funding. Dropbox uses the freemium pricing model to offer easy backup and sharing of documents, with software clients available for most desktops and mobile devices. With … Continued

EU firms increase investment in innovation

According to its 2011 “EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard” report, the European Commission has announced that R&D investment by top EU firms increased by 6.1% in 2010, compared with a 2.6% drop in 2009. However, EU companies lag behind their … Continued

Cloud computing news digest – 17 Oct 2011

Data protection Google fought the law and the law (sort of) won Google has been handing over private Gmail data to the US government but not without winning the right not to do it in secret. Google publishes the numbers … Continued