‘Self-Serve IT’ – The Future, Now
Call it the democratization of the cloud. Gradually, inexorably, there’s a shift in the balance of power in information technology. Taking nothing away from the IT establishment – which, after all, has its hands full serving mega enterprises with mega challenges – today, any random business can have industrial strength computing, without...
Toward a Cloud Hosting Bill of Rights: A Virtual Win-Win
To mark the recent 25th anniversary of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee, its creator, suggested the time was ripe for an Internet Bill of Rights. Smart idea -- so why not extend that concept to cloud hosting? After all, powerful new virtualization technologies carry with them some very specific rights and responsibilities, and we could all use more tran...
Garages Are for Bands, Not for Cloud Service Providers
Some time back, the Goliaths of the cloud hosting business (you know who they are) put out the word to small and midsize organizations that they’d be delighted to offer hosting services to organizations of just about any size and shape. Call it an experiment or a trial balloon, but it was clear to those paying attention that try as they might, ...
Pssst — the Cloud is Easy. Just Make Sure Vendors Don’t Get in the Way.
Vendors know things. They speak a special language, an information technology dialect that even the savviest manufacturing professionals can’t fathom, but that they respect nonetheless – perhaps because it’s indecipherable. They and their organizations are turning to experts, after all, since tech is something in which they don’t speci...
Private Cloud vs. Public Cloud Servers: Who’s Got the Edge?
There’s broad agreement on the key benefits of virtual servers — scalability, improved resource utilization, reduced operational costs, instant provisioning, and the ability to quickly expand the server base. But there is no “one size fits all” consensus around private vs. public cloud servers. For educational institutions, the selection...
Windows Server 2012: 4 critical abilities and how to implement well
Why campus IT should make the switch before end-of-support; and what it takes for a successful implementation. windows-server-implementation. One door closes, another opens. That adage is apropos not only of the process of matriculation, but of the technology tools on which educational institutions rely. And one of those transitions is now upon...
The Real Role Vendors Play in College Cloud Networks
With more colleges moving to the Cloud, they should consider how involved they want vendors to be during the transition. Vendors speak a special language. It’s an information technology dialect that most educational institutions can’t fathom, but that they respect nonetheless. Colleges have to turn to experts after all, since they don’t...
Infinitely Virtual Teams with Adirondack Solutions, Enables Leading Education Sector Software Provider To Offer Cloud Hosting
Top College Housing Suite Now at Home in Virtualized Infrastructure LOS ANGELES (Jan. 12, 2015) – Leading cloud server provider Infinitely Virtual today announced a strategic partnership with Adirondack Solutions, Inc. around hosted services for its line of best-in-class college housing and residential life management software. Powered by Inf...
Ensuring Fair Weather in the Cloud for Your Virtual Applications
While small and midsize businesses are often keen to move their applications to the cloud, the benefits of cloud migration don’t simply rain down from the sky. In order to take advantage of the flexibility (and cost savings) of virtual server hosting, organizations need to address some common challenges. Fortunately, there are a few simple ste...
The Cloud is Easy–Just Make Sure Vendors Don’t Get in the Way
Vendors know things. They speak a special language, an information technology dialect that most accounting firms can’t fathom, but that they respect nonetheless – perhaps because it’s indecipherable. CPAs are turning to experts, after all, since tech is something they don’t specialize in. They cut the vendor some slack, reasoning that IT...
