March 24, 2021
There was a time when businesses did not need much in the way of IT support. Perhaps one IT technician would come in to address one computer’s malfunction or internet connection. However, with the rise of cloud-based data systems and remote working, there is an immense need for managed IT support. Almost every business worldwide…
July 20, 2020
Data is the core of many businesses and is now woven into almost every step of the business process, so protecting it has never been more important. Whether it’s your data or your customers’ data, your data storage architecture must be able to maintain the integrity and reputation of your data store. Hybrid Clouds for…
June 16, 2020
It’s challenging to have a conversation about the latest developments in IT without mentioning the cloud. Growing demands for greater flexibility, scalability, and efficiency by organizations have driven them to move towards managed cloud services. If you’re getting an opportunity to cut costs and also take advantage of the latest technologies, why wouldn’t you? When…
August 6, 2014
This is really what it’s about for most firms: the cost. There are many ingredients to executing a reliable and scalable service. Reliability is a simple but useful term because it is a stand-in and abstraction for many of the related attributes of a good service: security, currency, fault-tolerance, redundancy — reliability is the end…
July 9, 2014
A provider can offer anything from raw ingredients for programmers to build online services and applications from scratch, all the way up to highly industry- and problem-specific applications, along with the management and maintenance required. There’s a place and market for these services. Anything from files to desktops and video conferencing can be run from…
June 20, 2014
If you suspect that cloud is an over-used marketing term, you’d be right, but to only to an extent. Executed properly, the technologies underlying modern cloud based services provide new and always improving levels of reliability and scale. These technologies drop the barriers to benefit, and in business terms, this opens up new opportunities by…
June 16, 2014
At least that’s the impression left by ads for cloud services with which we are regularly inundated. The definition of cloud and what it’s good for is still a puzzling concept for many, and to figure out how to put it to good use is unfortunately left to the everyday businessperson. Cloud need not be…