Taking a staged approach to building a private cloud helps ensure success along the way. Here’s how to break it down.
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Five Steps to Building a Private Cloud
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Microsoft PowerPoint 2013: Hands On
PowerPoint is a staple of the Microsoft Office suite. While PowerPoint is just one of many presentation software options, it has ascended to the ranks of Coke, Kleenex, Band-Aids, and Google as the de facto leader in its field. The word “PowerPoint” is used in a generic sense to refer to presentations and presentation software in general.
Microsoft recently unveiled the new Microsoft Office suite–Office 2013–and with it PowerPoint 2013. Having played with the new PowerPoint for a couple weeks now, here are some of my first impressions.
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Microsoft Ready to Cash In on Big Gamble
Microsoft revealed the date this week when it plans to start collecting on its bets. As of October 26–the official release date for Windows 8–all the cards will be on the table, and we will see if the gamble will pay off or not.
What gamble? Microsoft has a lot riding on Windows 8.
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Three Reasons You Should Switch to Office 365
Office 2013 will soon be here, along with a new and improved version of the cloud-based Office 365. If you’re looking to upgrade, you have to decide whether the traditional desktop version of Office is the way to go, or if Office 365 is a better fit for your needs.
There are a few compelling arguments in favor of Office 365. Let’s take a look at three reasons Office 365 might be the right choice:
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Meraki’s Managed Wireless Gets Stronger Security, But …
Meraki’s new code release includes the Air Marshal security module as well as several other features. If you’re new to managed wireless, however, here are some things to note.
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Dell Outlines Big Software Ambitions
It’s official. Dell, master of the hardware supply chain, is a software company. Or rather, it has a budding software company within its ranks, the Dell Software Group, which already has a revenue run rate of $ 1.45 billion.
John Swainson, president of the group, said at a press briefing in San Francisco Thursday that he had been asked by CEO Michael Dell to create a software business that complements Dell’s hardware sales. It’s expected to give Dell’s direct salesforce of 20,000 and Dell VARs and partners the chance to follow up a hardware sale with Dell software that adds value to the system.
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Microsoft OneNote MX Has a Secret Weapon
Microsoft launched a consumer preview of the new Microsoft Office suite this week. Traditionally, the core Microsoft Office elements have been Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, but OneNote has developed into a fourth pillar of the Microsoft productivity suite. In fact, Microsoft has put OneNote front and center as the poster child of the new mobile, touch-friendly Office.
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Which Scale-Out Storage Architecture Is Best?
The future of solid-state storage is scale out, according to our contributor. But which approach should you take with your scale-out storage architecture?
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EMC and VMware’s Leadership Shuffle: Beginning of the End?
VMware’s independence contributed greatly to its dominance. A tighter tie to EMC may spell bad news for IT pros.
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