Interested in Cloud Computing? Here’s a quick slide that’ll help you understand the technology space and how Microsoft’s offerings addresses these areas:
The space of most immediate impact for many organizations currently running their messaging, collaboration, and real-time communications services on-premise is the area of “Software as a Service” or SaaS. This is a space where Microsoft has made demonstrable investments in to ensure customers can choose to move part or all of their investment in these infrastructure services into the “cloud” and into a hosted datacenter environment. managed & monitored by Microsoft.
This is an area not fully understood by many customers however a great way to get an understanding of these technologies is to review this 3rd party webcast recording done by SaaS-IT Consulting. It goes over the importance of this area of cloud computing, what Microsoft offers, and why they believe the Microsoft SaaS implementation to be the best available on the market:
- WEBCAST: Microsoft Online Services, the choice of businesses – BPOS or GAPE? (Presented by Saas-IT Consult)
https://www107.livemeeting.com/cc/msevents/view?id=3681&role=attend&pw=ATT3681
(The recording is also downloadable – it’s about a 8MB file)

