LANSING - If Governor Rick Snyder and the Legislature are going to repeal the personal property tax, then the replacement revenue should be constitutionally guaranteed, a wide array of groups representing local governments and schools said Thursday. The tax on business equipment, which raises $1.2 billion, largely goes directly to municipalities and counties with some
LANSING - The chair of the Michigan Senate Insurance Committee, who is taking a lead role in reforming the state's auto no-fault insurance system, said Thursday he is preparing a new version of legislation that would set the minimum coverage for personal injury protection at $250,000. Sen. Joe Hune (R-Hamburg) told Gongwer News Service the
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder's special message on health and wellness will seek to mobilize corporate and health care industry-led efforts to fund public service campaigns to reduce obesity and infant mortality, sources have told Gongwer News Service. Snyder is expected to unveil the special message Wednesday, and the message is said to still be
GRANDVILLE - In my "cloudy" travels from Cannonical, to Opscode, to DTO Solutions, I often ask a seemingly simple question to the companies I meet - "Why do you want to use the cloud?" - and I get an array of amazingly unsatisfying answers. To read the rest of the story, click on Gongwer.Com a>>
GRANDVILLE - This is next in the series of post where I am highlighting the importance of PaaS in the future of cloud services. VMware's CloudFoundry (previous CloudAve coverage) has completely altered the PaaS landscape with a first multi-cloud, multi-language open source platform. While the platform has clearly won the hearts of both pundits and
GRANDVILLE - Cloud computing, at its core, is an operational transformation - mostly focused on infrastructure. If you're an enterprise IT shop, you're right to think that such a change will (ultimately) simplify your world. But simplification, faster time-to-provision, and on-demand capacity aren't the end points of IT transformation. They are the new tools that
Summary: Microsoft is informing customers hit by its Office 365 cloud outage this week that a ?networking interruption? caused the problem, and that the company is planning to offer them a 25 percent credit for their trouble. To read the rest of the story, click on ZNet.Com a>>
BOSTON - Web-based software maker Salesforce.com Inc raised its full-year revenue outlook, fueling hopes that cloud computing companies can avoid getting caught up in a possible slowdown in tech spending. To read the rest of the story, click on Reuters.Com a>>
GRANDVILLE - According to a recent report on Cloud trends, analyst house Gartner recommends that network managers should test or emulate the performance of Cloud -based applications in all geographies where they plan to deploy. There is a need for organisations to adopt a Cloud computing service that addresses specific issues around latency such as
GRANDVILLE - Over the last two years, in my consulting role I have encountered an increasing number of organisations whose staff work from home one or two days a week. This has many benefits for both employer and employee. People still attend the office for a number of reasons, the office culture, communication and collaboration