Microsoft Azure... a cloudless sky?

By Derek Watson, G2G3

The sky at night is clear and bright, deep in the heart of… Redmond?
After the recent Seinfeld marketing er… campaign. Microsoft have launched their ‘cloud’ computing platform ‘Windows Azure’.
Shame their marketing department didn’t think to look at their dictionaries...

azure
adjective
bright blue in color, like a cloudless sky : white beaches surrounded by azure seas.
Heraldry blue : [ postpositive ] a saltire azure.

noun
1 a bright blue color.
poetic/literary the clear sky.
2 a small butterfly that is typically blue or purplish, with color differences between the sexes.
Celastrina and other genera, family Lycaenidae.

ORIGIN Middle English (denoting a blue dye): from Old French asur, azur, from medieval Latin azzurum, azolum, from Arabic al ‘the’ + lāzaward (from Persian lāžward ‘lapis lazuli’ ).

If the sky is clear, it doesn’t bode well for a good connection to the Windows Cloud. You couldn’t make this stuff up!

And we have lift off! (Well... nearly!)

By Donna Kudarenko, G2G3

As India celebrates the successful launch of it’s first unmanned mission to the moon, G2G3 is preparing for its own launch of a new, revolutionary product. The team is extremely excited about taking the product to market and will be unveiling it at the UK’s most prestigious ITSM event, the itSMF Annual Conference and Exhibition. Unfortunately I am not at liberty to reveal any more information at this stage but watch this space! Believe me, it will be worth the wait!

And as the events circuit comes to a close for yet another year, our sales team is due to return today from our last Project Management event of the year, the Project Management Institute Global Congress, in Denver. The team were demonstrating our latest Project Management simulation, Polestar PM, and despite the current economic state causing concern about delegate attendance, the event has been extremely successful with numbers actually being up on last year! Maybe things aren’t as bleak as they are being portrayed!