Cloud: The Moving Target
The cloud market is moving so fast, that it’s highly probable that by the time you read this, details have changed. Yet the fundamental business-decision drivers won’t change for several years, if not...
View ArticleFeds Want Email in the Cloud
Feds To Pursue Email Access Via Cloud Information Management Online, October 28, 2010 Mel Duvall Federal government agencies could soon have the option of migrating to a cloud-based email service,...
View ArticleWhat’s Driving Cloud Adoption Part 1
Those Are Some Old Computers About a decade ago, the IT industry had just gotten through the Y2K scramble, with most older technology being replaced by new. It was a unique time when virtually the...
View ArticleWhat’s Driving Cloud Adoption Part 2
Don’t Make Me Buy Anything Unless I Must With the recovering economy, there is a reluctance to purchase capital equipment with scrutiny of every cent spent. And solid IT is expensive and capital...
View ArticleWhat’s Driving Cloud Adoption Part 3
I Need More Power Computer equipment is power hungry. The more advanced the technology, the more power it consumes. In fact, in 2009 data centers consumed two percent of the world-wide power and this...
View ArticleWhat’s Driving Cloud Adoption Part 4
High-speed Internet Connectivity Everywhere A decade ago, you connected to the Internet via a modem that was running at a screaming 14.4kbps (kilo bits per second). I thought it was cool to Napster...
View ArticleWhy All Startups Choose Cloud Computing
This is one of the best synopsises I’ve seen for why companies are choosing the could. From...
View ArticleWhat to Consider When Reviewing a Cloud Services Contract
When it comes to cloud services contracts, you need to take a close look before agreeing. You can give up a lot of control–even too much control–with some contracts. Right now, you are in the drivers...
View ArticleCalculating The Cost of Computer Downtime and the Value of Uptime
If you think back 10 years, we didn’t expect computers to be available 24×7. They went off line for maintenance activities, usually to back up the data in case of hardware failure. Computer System Must...
View ArticleWelcome to Cloud in the Boardroom
This blog discusses the issues the business executives need to consider when bringing cloud-based IT services into their organization.
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