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Office 2013: Microsoft Cloud Era Begins In Earnest

snydeq writes “Microsoft’s release of Office 2013 represents the latest in a series of makeover moves, this time aimed at shifting use of its bedrock productivity suite to the cloud. Early hands-on testing suggests Office 2013 is the ‘best Office yet,’ bringing excellent cloud features and pay-as-you-go pricing to Office. But Microsoft’s new vision for remaining nimble in the cloud era comes with some questions, such as what happens when your subscription expires, not to mention some gray areas around inevitable employee use of Office 2013 Home Premium in business settings.” Zordak points to coverage of the new Office model at CNN Money, and says “More interesting than the article itself is the comments. The article closes by asking ‘Will you [pay up]?’ The consensus in the comments is a resounding ‘NO,’ with frequent mentions of the suitability of OpenOffice for home productivity.” Also at SlashCloud. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Windows Server 2012 “Early Experts” Challenge

Windows Server 2012 “Early Experts” Challenge The Windows Server 2012 “Early Experts” Challenge provides a FREE online study group with certification exam preparation materials for quickly learning about the latest version of Windows…( read more )

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Netflix Open-Sources “Janitor Monkey” AWS Cleanup Tool

Nerval’s Lobster writes “Netflix has released ‘Janitor Monkey,’ an open-source tool for killing old Amazon Web Services (AWS) instances that began life as an in-house product. While those hosting a private data center will have little use for this scrubbin’ simian, those enterprises with a public cloud can add Janitor Monkey to their administrative bag of tricks. The premise behind the tool is a simple one: while AWS allows for easy (and cheap) experimentation, it’s easy for even the most diligent IT pro to rack up unnecessary costs when they forget to shut off a particular instance. While Netflix’s Asgard tool—open-sourced in June, because this is how the company rolls—allows administrators to delete unused resources, Janitor Monkey takes things one step further by allowing those instances to be automatically found so that Asgard can clean them up. Over the past year, Janitor Monkey has deleted more than 5,000 resources running in the Netflix production and test environments, the company said. Janitor Monkey detects AWS instances, EBS volumes, EBS volume snapshots, and auto-scaling group.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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NVIDIA details the Grid, a card built for powering cloud computing

NVIDIA’s CES 2013 press conference is still ongoing, but the chipmaker is already unveiling something we’ve only seen teased before: the NVIDIA Grid, a card used for cloud computing across PCs, smart TVs, and smartphones. CEO and founder Jen-Hsun Huang detailed the new card on-stage, which you can see above in a rack of 20 grid servers. Huang says the rack pushes out roughly 240 NVIDIA GPUs worth of power, or about 200 teraflops — equivalent to approximately 700 Xbox 360s. The Grid was given a tease earlier this year ; the card will assist in pushing serious horsepower to the cloud, so that gaming over the air, across multiple devices becomes a less complicated reality. During an on-stage demonstration, NVIDIA showed Frozenbyte’s Trine running on various devices, all powered by the Grid system. Beyond just looking great, it carried over seamlessly between multiple devices. Huang also detailed NVIDIA’s first partners for Grid: Agawi, Cloudunion, Cyber Cloud, G-cluster, Playcast, and Ubitus. Apparently biggies like OnLive and Gaikai are already all set? We’ll be sure to get a closer look in the coming days as CES rages on. Continue reading NVIDIA details the Grid, a card built for powering cloud computing Comments

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LogMeIn’s Cubby cloud storage service enters ‘Open Beta’ phase, welcomes new signups

It’s been quite a few months since LogMeIn decided to explore the relatively crowded cloud-based storage space, but after months of existing as a private beta only, today the company’s Cubby is finally reaching a more open stage. Essentially, this novel “Open Beta” will allow new folks to see what the fresh service is all about — which includes 5GB of free storage space (up to 20GB more if you introduce people to the interestingly-named offering) and what Cubby’s calling its “signature” DirectSync feature, one that allows for unlimited file syncing across Mac and PCs. Needless to say, with services like Dropbox, Box and Google Drive having been around for some time now, LogMeIn’s Cubby certainly has its work cut out for it — that said, it never hurts to have one too many options. Right? Filed under: Storage , Internet , Software LogMeIn’s Cubby cloud storage service enters ‘Open Beta’ phase, welcomes new signups originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 05 Nov 2012 20:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink    |  Cubby  |  Email this  |  Comments

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New PlayStation 3 Hack May Be One That Sony Can’t Stop

The PlayStation 3 has been around since 2006, and since roughly 2006 hackers have been trying to have their way with it. The system has proven a relatively tough nut to crack, though not an impossible one. The last major rooting incident was back in 2011 . More »

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