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Box.net Targets Enterprise; Microsoft Do Not Track Plan Accepted by W3C; Local Governments Embrace The Cloud

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HP and Microsoft Roll Out Appliances (Redmond Channel Partner)
Hewlett-Packard Co. and Microsoft have unveiled five appliances that offer Exchange and SQL Server in turnkey configurations. The two companies' offerings range from a so-called "private cloud in a box" designed to virtualize databases to a $2 million data warehouse appliance. The latter marks the official release of the largest and most scalable version of the Microsoft database to date: SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Warehouse Edition, code-named "Project Madison."

Bamboo Solutions Partners with Innovative-e, Inc. to Offer SharePoint Project Management Central Deployment Planning Service (dBusiness News)
Bamboo Solutions is partnering with Innovative-e, Inc., a leading consulting firm in the project management and SharePoint domains, to offer Project Management Central (PMC) Deployment Planning. PMC Deployment Planning is a support service for Bamboo’s Web-based workspace SharePoint solution, Project Management Central. PMC Deployment Planning provides clients with a comprehensive custom plan for how to best use Project Management Central™ in combination with project management best practices to improve overall organizational health and project management maturity level.

Local Governments Embrace The Cloud Faster Than Feds (InformationWeek)
While the public sector in general is moving to cloud computing for a number of reasons, state and local governments in particular are making the leap faster than their counterparts at the federal level, a Microsoft government executive said this week. "I think state and local may be moving a little more quickly, especially at the local government level," Gail Thomas-Flynn, Microsoft's vice president of state and local government, said in an interview with InformationWeek. "There’s an opportunity to be a little more agile at the local government."

Box.net Takes Aim at Enterprise IT (Internet Evolution)
News that enterprise cloud storage startup Box.net has scored $48 million in new funding, bringing its total to over $75 million, should surprise no one in IT. What might surprise many observers is how well Box.net has read the roadsigns of enterprise computing. To start at the top: The option to store corporate data off-site on the Web is catching on, albeit slowly, with enterprise customers. In a survey of 230 enterprise IT pros taken by cloud storage provider Zetta in the fall of 2010, 51 percent of respondents said they plan to use cloud storage.

Be a Rainmaker in the Cloud World, with Bill Staples of Microsoft (Web Host Industry Review)
Bill Staples of Microsoft closed out the first part of the Thursday morning keynote sessions at Parallels Summit this week. He started by saying he wanted to focus his talk on how Microsoft is working to engage with partners to help make the Windows platform more valuable in the cloud based world. He addressed the question of whether Microsoft is a partner or a competitor in the cloud space. And the answer, he says, is both.

Microsoft 'Do Not Track' Plan Accepted by Web Standards Group W3C (PC Magazine)
Microsoft's "do not track" browser proposal got a boost Thursday when the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a Web standards body, gave Microsoft's plan its stamp of approval. The W3C has accepted and published Microsoft's submission, which W3C called "timely and well-aligned with the consortium's objectives and priorities." An official announcement is expected in early March, and W3C will hold a workshop at Princeton University on April 28 and 29 to assess whether W3C should proceed with more work in this area.

Windows 8, Windows Server 8, and Office 15: Tons of New Information Straight from Microsoft and its Employees! (ZDNet)
In addition to my passion for SEO (Search Engine Optimization), I’m an investigative researcher/blogger with a penchant for finding confidential information on the cutting edge of topics I’m passionate about. Without fail, the one product I chase the most is Microsoft Windows. Ever since the days of Whistler (Windows XP’s code name), I’ve used the power of Google and other sources to flesh out undisclosed information to digest and make available to the masses. Today, I continue that tradition by bringing you a post consisting of a culmination of Windows 8, Windows Server 8 and even Office 15 information I’ve discovered over the course of the past month or so.

 

Around the Blogosphere
Out of the Box Reporting with SharePoint 2007 (NothingButSharePoint)
SharePoint reporting can be an extremely broad topic, with requirements spanning a number of roles and functions in your organization. While end user reporting may be a topic for future articles, I’d like to focus here on the administrator role. Specifically, what kinds of reports and analysis do SharePoint Administrators need to produce to help them in their jobs?

Episode 37 – The SharePoint Certified Masters Program (The MOSS Show SharePoint Podcast)
The Microsoft Certified Masters (MCM) for SharePoint is truly the best-of-the-best certification for the product. In this interview with some of the SharePoint MCM team we find out more about the prerequisites and acceptance process,  being on the actual course, the grueling schedule and examinations, and finally the benefits before, during and after the MCM.

SharePoint 2010 Branding Series – Part Five (NothingButSharePoint)
Well it’s been a long time coming both nothingbutsharepoint.com and sharepointedutech are now up to date with this blog and are eagerly awaiting this and the following posts so let’s not leave it any longer. In the last post we looked at getting the header in to the design and positioning it correctly as well as moving the navigation area. In this post we are going to move a few of the standard SharePoint controls around and get ready for styling.

Reuse a Term in Groups or Term Sets (The SharePoint Blog)
Quick note about something I've just seen on Liam Cleary's blog post on the term store, and it is something I also forget myself. When setting up terms in the term store don't forget to 'reuse' a term if you find it repeating within groups or term sets.

 

Around Bamboo Nation
This Week in Bamboo (February 13th, 2011 - February 19th, 2011) (The Bamboo Team Blog)
For this week, we released a few products with some updated features, bug fixes and a new set of other products using our new installation program for both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010.  The highlight of the week is the new releases of Calendar Plus Web Part Release 4.1, and Team Calendar Web Part Release 1.6.  Please see below for more details about the patches.

Registration is Now Open for All 3 Sharing the Point Asian Tour Events (The Bamboo Team Blog)
As of this morning, members of the SharePoint communities in Beijing, Manila, and Ho Chi Minh City may now register to attend the free half-day Sharing the Point events taking place in each city next month.  In the tradition of community events such as SharePoint Saturday, the mission of Sharing the Point (STP) is to promote SharePoint and galvanize the local communities in the participating cities.  STP speakers include renowned SharePoint professionals Joel Oleson, Dux Raymond Sy, Michael Noel, Paul Swider, Mark Miller, and Rob LaMear, and your humble correspondent will also be joining the team as an "embedded journalist" so you can expect plenty of blog coverage throughout the barnstorming three-city tour.

 

SharePoint Job Listings*
SharePoint Analyst - Cambridge, MA
Work with users to identify and analyze business requirements for scientific project team and departmental collaboration. Research and evaluate alternative approaches to implement these requirements; recommend and implement solutions.

SharePoint 2010 Administrator - St. Louis, MO
Senior SharePoint Administrator who will assist senior leadership in defining, developing, administering, testing (unit, integration and regression), analyzing, and maintaining SharePoint based software portal and applications in support of the achievement of business requirements.  The selected individual will participate in front-end design sessions to determine the most effective approach to meet business goals, develop SharePoint and .NET business tools, web parts, and utilities for system integration and automation, and will create and maintain code and process flow documentation according to change control standards.

 

Microsoft Updates
Install a Software Update (SharePoint Foundation 2010) (TechNet)
This article describes how to install a software update on servers in a Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 farm. Additionally, three example scenarios are discussed and an update procedure is provided for each scenario.

 

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