Thanks to everyone who was able to participate in our Lunch and Learn last Wednesday! As promised, the slide deck can be downloaded here: EVcloud%20Office%20365.pptx

-Dennis

Thanks to everyone for attending yesterday! Below is a link to the presentation portion of the meeting. For best performance, click "Save" to download this presentation to your hard drive: download now! 

Mark Skilton identifies 8 business metrics for evaluating cloud ROI in this CIO Magazine article. Which of these are your top drivers?…

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Due to inclement weather, our guest speaker was not able to travel into KC, and we are forced to postpone tomorrow’s KCCCUG Office 365 presentation until our next scheduled meeting on February 1^st. Please follow the…

Several members have requested a comparison between the Microsoft Cloud and Google Apps. This whitepaper compares Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS) and Google Apps Premier Edition (GAPE), focusing on the feature sets,…

Coca-Cola Enterprises uses Microsoft Online Services to deploy a worldwide intranet with messaging and collaboration tools, which are accessible to all employees from any device, enabling employees to boost productivity and time with customers. [Read more:…

GlaxoSmithKline says moving to Microsoft Online Services is enabling the company to reduce IT operational costs by roughly 30%, while enhancing productivity with tools such as SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, Microsoft Office Communications Online, Live Meeting Online, and the Deskless Worker Suite. [Read more:…

One of the most compelling and differentiating scenarios available with the new Windows Phone 7 will be the ability to access, navigate and open and edit Sharepoint content and Office docs remotely. This is demonstrated in this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNOQ4CM5GRg

Check out this interactive online demo!!

http://www.microsoft.com/online/demo/demo.aspx

Cloud computing offers speedy path to business innovation, report says

People still come up to me claiming that cloud computing [1] is nothing but network computing with a "10-dollar word" attached to it. They're wrong, though: Cloud computing represents a fundamental shift in information technology, in myriad ways. If you're a security admin -- whether for applications or infrastructure -- your job is going to change.

There will…

Service Providers Should Seize Cloud Opportunity Now

The global market for enterprise cloud services is projected to almost triple by 2015, with the biggest growth coming in 2011, according to an Analysys Mason forecast.

By Steve Hilton, InformationWeek

July 8, 2010

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August 11, 2010 (CIO)

Having been in the enterprise productivity apps game for only three years, Google has made impressive strides with Google Apps, its Web-based messaging and collaboration suite.

Since the 2007 introduction, Google has gone from zero to more than 2…

https://careers.microsoft.com/JobDetails.aspx?ss=&pg=0&so=&rw=2&jid=23297&jlang=EN