In the B.C. era (before the cloud) businesses had the option to get online through either shared hosting technology or to invest in a dedicated server. For many small to medium sized businesses this became a difficult choice that was often driven by budgetary considerations. Let’s take a brief look at the online options available…
The cloud provides businesses with many benefits like flexibility, scalability, cost effective resource use and elasticity, but one of the greatest benefits of cloud computing is how it’s changed the nature of disaster recovery and business continuity. The cloud has made disaster recovery more cost-effective and has allowed smaller businesses to deploy comprehensive disaster recovery…
The past few years there’s been a lot of talk about “the cloud.” Many business owners believe that virtualization and the cloud is a “one-size-fits-all” technology better suited to Fortune 500 companies than their small business. The truth is that the cloud has matured and that assumption is not today’s reality. Today, scalability is the…
Businesses migrating to the cloud are often surprised to find that after the initial set-up and learning curve, the benefits increase. Along with cost savings, mobility, automatic backup, and storage on demand, the cloud offers truly scalable hosting. In the days of the dedicated server, adding employees to the network, required large capital outlays for…
The biggest concern keeping many business owners on the sidelines of the cloud revolution centers around security. Essentially, security on the cloud is no more or less safe than with on-premise systems. Actually, the IT structure of cloud hosting holds tremendous potential for organizations to improve their overall information security. A Gartner’s CIO Agenda survey…
The growth of cloud computing has exploded. As more business turns to the cloud to create and share documents, host websites, and store data the advantages are becoming more apparent every day. One of the greatest advantages of cloud computing is scalable hosting. Because of this scalability, computing resources can be purchased…
The cloud offers users many benefits, like resource availability, scalability, elasticity and affordable cloud hosting but one of the most significant benefits is in the realm of disaster recovery. The cloud’s cost effectiveness has lowered the bar for smaller companies making it possible to employ affordable disaster recovery plans for their entire IT infrastructure. How…
Cloud computing has really come of age in the past several years. Business has embraced the concept of the cloud as it has brought convenience, scalability and increased mobility at a reasonable cost. By embracing the cloud, it’s no longer necessary to invest in hardware and software that needs to be continuously upgraded and updated.…
The past several years have seen the rise of cloud computing and brought with it the concept of easily scalable hosting. While many businesses are still using dedicated servers, the cloud changes the way companies approach and integrates technology into their business strategies. Let’s examine the differences, pros and cons between the cloud server technology…
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