8 Benefits of having a Meta Data Dictionary for your Search Engine
When you’re deploying a search engine – big or small, for intranets or web sites, creating a meta data dictionary (or meta data registry) and making sure you stick to it. This is important for many reasons, and is most important when content is being indexed into the search engine from more than one source [...]
You know cloud computing is hitting the mainstream when …
In this article, Forbes.com (of Forbes magazine fame) discusses the term mult-tenancy, the underpinnings to why the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model and cloud computing in general works.
Cloud computing in a bubble economy
If you’re counting on your established IT vendor to migrate you gracefully into its own emerging cloud-based environment, think again. Focusing on short-term financial results, its shareholders are demanding that it leverage the traditional cash cow of software license fees and maintenance revenue to the hilt. To the extent [...]
Seven reasons cloud computing works in a tough economy
Typically, during a recession, IT departments will assume a conservative spending approach and limit adoption of new technologies, but cloud computing offers an alternative to that route. Interest in cloud computing continues, and is even accelerating, as IT departments are challenged by slim budgets and limited resources. There are seven reasons the down economy is [...]
Toronto Cloud Computing Conference Feb 11
Here’s a reminder to everyone that the first cloud computing conference in Canada is coming to the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on February 11, 2009. This one day event is called “Cloud Computing an IT Paradigm Shift, and is co-located with CloudCamp.