Office in the cloud: Google Apps vs. Office 365Can you do all of your office productivity, email and collaboration in the cloud? We examined the latest small-business suites from Google and Microsoft to find out.March 15, 2013 by Alan Stevens in Cloud
Building a private cloud with System Center 2012: Part 3The third stage in our investigation of Microsoft's Private Cloud Evaluation Software bundle completes the lengthy but necessary configuration work, prior to actually building our virtualised datacentres.August 21, 2012 by Alan Stevens in Cloud
Building a private cloud with System Center 2012: Part 2The next stage in our investigation of Microsoft's Private Cloud Evaluation Software bundle involves deploying and configuring a series of Integration Packs that allow the various System Center tools to work together.July 19, 2012 by Alan Stevens in Cloud
Building a private cloud with System Center 2012: Part 1Microsoft's Private Cloud Evaluation Software bundle contains everything you need for a trial, including a unified installer for ease of deployment. It's not for the faint-hearted though.July 9, 2012 by Alan Stevens in Cloud
An office in the cloudKnowledge workers spend much of their time in front of a desktop office suite, generally Microsoft Office. Is it time to consider a cloud-based alternative?September 8, 2010 by Alan Stevens in Cloud
Google Apps Premier EditionWith its feature-rich and usable document editing, sharing and collaboration tools, plus email, Google Apps is the hosted office suite to beat.September 8, 2010 by Alan Stevens in Cloud