5 Ways the Cloud Will Change in 2012

“In 2011, cloud computing demonstrated that it was a major driver of change in the IT industry. Organizations of all types and sizes began using the hybrid cloud — a combination of public and private cloud computing — in earnest. What can we look forward to in 2012?”

As the New Year approaches and people begin to make (or in some cases, break) their resolutions, it is a good time for individuals to look back at the past year and try to predict and anticipate changes within their industry.

Matthew Lodge, a Senior Director in VMware's Cloud Services, answers this question in an article posted by Forbes and CNN.  Before you read the whole article, we took the time to summarize the main ideas:

• The hybrid cloud will continue to grow.
• More web developers will embrace PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service).
• There will be more major outages and each one will drive awareness of differences in service quality.
• The private cloud will grow bigger instead of go away.  
• Organizations will continue to assume that private clouds have impenetrable security protections.   

A new year's is about anticipating and making predictions.  We thank Mr. Lodge and our partner VMware for being bold enough to make one here, and invite you to read the entire article here!

Using the Cloud Effectively!

A great video by VMware shows how to effectively use the cloud. Enjoy!

Top Ten Benefits of the Cloud!

Some IT Professionals will often talk about how cloud computing can help your business without getting very specific on exactly "how."  Well, we would like to change that.  In this upcoming blog series, we at IS Support have listed our ten favorite ways that Small-Medium sized businesses utilize the cloud.  We have listed them below (in no particular order)

1. Reduced Costs
2. Scalability
3. Disaster Recovery
4. Remote Access
5. Fast Response Time
6. Automatic Updates
7. Implementation
8. Level Playing Field
9. Mobility
10. Experienced Vendor

For the next ten blog posts, we will take each one above and briefly summarize it and how it can effect your business and help you evolve with technology to take your company to the next level. 

Stay tuned and in the meantime, check out our website...we'd be happy to put you on "the cloud!"

If only it was this easy

Getting on the cloud is not this easy:

Our friends and partners at VMWare shared this hilarious video of an IT engineer trying to put his data center in the cloud.  If you're still wondering what all the chatter is about Cloud Computing, we can help your business find cloud solutions with our designed-for-you, Cloud Cumulus services.  We can make it look....almost this easy.

If  you would like a FREE consultation to see if cloud computing is right for your company: click here