A great video by VMware shows how to effectively use the cloud. Enjoy!
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Top Ten Benefits of the Cloud: #5 - Fast Response Time
Cloud computing accomplishes a better response time than a standard server and hardware in most cases.
As IT infrastructures have become increasingly complex, less is focused on support. In fact, about 70% of IT investment is focused on maintenance, leaving less time to support strategic business projects. Companies are demanding faster response times and lower costs.
Cloud computing helps reduces IT complexity by leveraging the efficient pooling of on-demand, self-managed virtual infrastructure, consumed as a service. Cloud computing is central to that strategy.
Many IT organizations, faced with decling resources and increasing business needs, are leveraging to cloud computing for delivering IT to business: IT as a Service. IS Support's Cloud Cumulus follows this model to provide a more efficient, flexible and cost-effective model to our clients.
While cloud computing provides the approach, IS Support delivers a pragmatic path and solutions that allow businesses to preserve existing technology investments, while achieving the goal of enabling IT as a Service and of course, faster response times.
For more information how you can increase your response times and all the other benefits cloud computing can bring, contact IS Support by visiting our website or calling 866-370-7142
As IT infrastructures have become increasingly complex, less is focused on support. In fact, about 70% of IT investment is focused on maintenance, leaving less time to support strategic business projects. Companies are demanding faster response times and lower costs.
Cloud computing helps reduces IT complexity by leveraging the efficient pooling of on-demand, self-managed virtual infrastructure, consumed as a service. Cloud computing is central to that strategy.
Many IT organizations, faced with decling resources and increasing business needs, are leveraging to cloud computing for delivering IT to business: IT as a Service. IS Support's Cloud Cumulus follows this model to provide a more efficient, flexible and cost-effective model to our clients.
While cloud computing provides the approach, IS Support delivers a pragmatic path and solutions that allow businesses to preserve existing technology investments, while achieving the goal of enabling IT as a Service and of course, faster response times.
For more information how you can increase your response times and all the other benefits cloud computing can bring, contact IS Support by visiting our website or calling 866-370-7142
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Top Ten Benefits of the Cloud: #4 - Remote Access
When you switch to the Cloud, employees, clients, and partners can access and update information whereever they are, rather than having to run back to the office. People everywhere use their smartphones, laptops, tablets to access their work away from the office. In today's business climate, staying in touch and in control of your responsibilities is essential, whereever you are.Systems like Yahoo Mail, Skype, Twitter and Facebook all use the cloud to some degree. Your company can do the same. The cloud gives us freedom to enjoy vacations, work from home, and be mobile while honoring our obligations.
This excellent video by salesforce.com provides a neat illustration of cloud computing through the years. See if you can pick up on remote access.
Contact IS Support for more information on taking your business to the next level on the Cloud!
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Top Ten Benefits of the Cloud: #3 - Disaster Recovery
Many small businesses that incur a significant data loss have often found themselves bankrupt within six months. In Houston, we know firsthand that disasters such as hurricanes or floods can do irreparable damage to your company. If you don't have a disaster recovery plan in place, you need one. If you haven't reviewed your plan in the past year, don't wait - But don't go it alone either. IS Support can help.
Our cloud-based, IS RapidRestore is one of our premier services that is installed on your network to back up your server every 15 minutes on your company's site, then move it safely to an offsite location each evening.
Even in a catastrophic event your data can be restored with RapidRestore in less than an hour. In the event of a full server crash, RapidRestore creates a virtual replica to act as a standby server allowing business operations no interruption during timely server rebuilds.
Features:
- 15-minute snapshots of server
- Offsite replication in the event of a total property loss
- Restores a full server or at the file level
- Back to business in less than one hour
- No expensive backup software or tape drives eliminating the risk of forgetting to change tapes or not take them offsite
Monday, August 1, 2011
Top Ten Benefits of the Cloud: #2 - Scalability
When your business is on the cloud, you can "scale" your business' storage needs seamlessly, rather than purchasing individual expensive programs or hardware.
Businesses can leverage certain projects and pay for all the cloud apps they need to create, implement and market certain projects on a month to month basis rather than purchasing pieces of hardware, worry about overloading their servers or buying various software licenses.
For more information on how our IS Cumulus cloud options can help your business, visit our website or call us at 866-370-7142
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