The Ins and Outs Of Cloud Storage For Your Business

Cloud storage provides many of the same basic benefits regardless of the hosting plan. Any cloud hosting package has the potential to save a company money, save an IT department time, and provide greater accessibility to business data. The advantages of cloud hosting change, though, with the cloud storage options selected. Knowing the advantages of… Continue reading The Ins and Outs Of Cloud Storage For Your Business

When To Use The Public Cloud For Your Business

Proponents of the public cloud tout its reduced cost, ease of use and flexibility as benefits that increasingly make it a must for small and large businesses alike. Small businesses can use the cloud to store and back up business data, to collaborate, to grow in a cost-effective manner and to work remotely. While the public cloud… Continue reading When To Use The Public Cloud For Your Business

The 5 Most Valuable Questions To Ask When Choosing A Cloud Provider

What should you look for in a cloud solution provider? Can the answer to this question — or answers to it — be distilled into a simple guide? While there are an ever-increasing variety of cloud-based solutions – from storage, to e-mail, to salesforce management – there are some questions you should ask any potential… Continue reading The 5 Most Valuable Questions To Ask When Choosing A Cloud Provider

The Business Case For Hosted Exchange: 5 Key Aspects

Just as you wouldn’t drill a well for only your own water, a modern business should not try to handle all its functional necessities in house. Critical utilities for businesses include email in addition to an online presence. By moving to a hosted Exchange service, you can cut costs and increase reliability by putting email… Continue reading The Business Case For Hosted Exchange: 5 Key Aspects

What To Look For In A New Web Hosting Service

Looking for the right website hosting solution can be more frustrating than dining out with rowdy twin toddlers. But finding the right provider to host your site is an important part of building your brand and maintaining momentum in your strategic messaging. Here are some qualities to look for in a web hosting provider that… Continue reading What To Look For In A New Web Hosting Service

How To Avoid Vendor Lock-In

Vendor lock-in occurs when it’s difficult, expensive or impossible to switch from one service provider to another. This problem remains common in cloud computing systems, including email and database hosting. A recent survey found that 35 percent of businesses hesitate to use the cloud because of vendor lock-in. However, companies and consumers struggled with this issue long… Continue reading How To Avoid Vendor Lock-In

OpenStack is Shifting Perceptions in IT

While it’s no major revelation that the world of IT is changing rapidly, it is a bit of a revelation that Rackspace’s OpenStack is at the helm of this change. For instance, the National Security Agency (NSA) — you know, the agency in charge of all that top secret government stuff — recently revealed that OpenStack is… Continue reading OpenStack is Shifting Perceptions in IT