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By Yan Ness on January 23, 2012
Video, music, classified ads, newspapers, magazines, pictures – all forms of media have been dramatically transformed by their digitization. iTunes, Amazon and all of their various devices have enabled a new business model that created fantastic wealth at the expense of old-guard leaders. This digital transformation was an onslaught that decimated local newspapers, record stores, [...]
Posted in Information Technology Tips, Managed Servers | Tagged IT industry news, mass digitization, server virtualization, virtual servers, virtualization |
By Thu Pham on December 28, 2011
The healthcare IT market is rapidly growing and expected to continue through 2016. Here’s a look at 2012 health IT spending trends and a review of 2011. Nearly 90 percent of healthcare IT decision-makers are planning significant investments in hardware, software and other solutions within the next six months. A study by CDW IT Monitor [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, PCI/HIPAA/SAS-70 Compliance | Tagged 2011 health IT trends, 2012 health IT trends, cloud computing healthcare, health IT, healthcare information technology, healthcare technology, HIPAA compliant hosting, HIPAA hosting, virtualization |
By Thu Pham on November 14, 2011
Do you think you’re ready for a disaster to hit in the upcoming year? Can your business survive the impact, and are you prepared to recover all of your applications and data quickly and accurately? Most businesses just don’t think it’ll happen to them – when in actuality, disasters happen more often than we think. [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Disaster Recovery | Tagged 2012 disaster recovery plan, 2012 IT disaster recovery, Cloud Computing, cloud hosting, disaster recovery plan, IT disaster recovery plan, offsite backup, private cloud computing, private cloud hosting, virtualization |
By Thu Pham on September 20, 2011
Disaster recovery and backup are critical for businesses in the event of a disaster – risking data loss can severely impact your bottom line in addition to the survival of your company. But preparation can reduce costs, decrease recovery times and increase data recovery accuracy. Designing and testing a formal disaster recovery plan can help [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Disaster Recovery | Tagged Cloud Computing, cloud hosting, disaster recovery plan, disaster recovery webinar, it disaster recovery, offsite backup, private cloud computing, private cloud hosting, virtualization |
By Thu Pham on August 23, 2011
A recent survey conducted by the Aberdeen Group uncovered the IT disaster recovery trends of a range of companies using cloud computing for data storage, backup and recovery. Comparing cloud users and non-cloud users, they found that mid-sized companies ($50 million to $1 billion of yearly revenue) were the largest group to adopt the cloud [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Disaster Recovery | Tagged backup, Cloud Computing, cloud hosting, it disaster recovery, virtualization |
By Thu Pham on August 18, 2011
From faster recovery times to significant cost-savings and guaranteed backup, the benefits of implementing cloud computing for both production and disaster recovery systems are worth deep consideration for any company running multiple, mission critical servers. Below is a cheat sheet comparing the advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing and a traditional disaster recovery plan. General [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Disaster Recovery | Tagged Cloud Computing, cloud hosting, disaster recovery plan, it disaster recovery, offsite backup, private cloud computing, private cloud hosting, virtualization |
By Rod Mach on February 17, 2011
Deploying a Hosted Private Cloud is a popular way for companies to immediately see the benefits of Private Cloud computing while avoiding significant upfront costs of deploying the hardware and software resources in-house.
Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged Cloud Computing, dedicated server, dedicated servers, disaster recovery, private cloud, virtualization |
By Yan Ness on December 3, 2010
How I found out I wanted “Predictably Priced Elastic Computing” We have a really important web application that gets a fairly unpredictable flow of traffic from multiple sources including users. I wanted to know what it would cost to host this application “in the cloud.” I thought it would be really easy to buy a [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged amazon ec3, elastic computing, microsoft azure, private cloud, Public Cloud, virtualization |
By Yan Ness on June 30, 2010
A private cloud computing platform is a stack of network, server and storage hardware dedicated to you for the purpose of cloud computing. With a managed cloud computing service, the stack of hardware becomes a customizable cloud of computing and storage resources for you to configure as you wish. Why is this ability to configure [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged Cloud Computing, dedicated server, private cloud, virtualization |
By Bill Ryan on June 7, 2010
While reading an article in the March 22nd edition of NETWORKWORLD by Jon Brodkin entitled “DEMO start-ups for the cloud”, I made note of a particularly interesting quote by Jeff Crown, president of DEMO, presenter at VenueGen, that “ this is a tough time for start-ups looking raise venture capital.” Venture capitalists are looking for [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged Cloud Computing, entreprenuer, managed server, startup, virtualization |
