Recent Articles
-
Private Cloud Computing Gathers Momentum
External cloud providers have garnered much of the publicity of the initial wave of cloud computing. But that is not necessarily where the market is headed. While cloud computing services come in many forms, IT analyst firm Gartner predicts that through 2012, IT organizations will invest more in private cloud services than in offerings from…
-
ASCII, Cetrom Partnership Addresses Cloud Interoperability
The ASCII Group is partnering with Cetrom Information Technology to deliver seamlessly integrated and customized cloud computing services that solution providers can brand and resell as their own. The program will enable members of the ASCII Group, a collaborative community of solution providers, to gain access to discounted cloud-based Microsoft and other application and hosting…
-
Startup IT Structures Builds Virtual IT Environments
Is this scenario familiar to you? You are on a sales call and it’s going well. After a nice long conversation and a WebEx presentation, the customer says he thinks your software might be a good fit for his company. You think it’s a done deal. Then, “Can we try it out first?” That’s when…
-
Gmail Service Outage Disrupts Users
Google sent an alert out through various social networking and conventional communications channel this morning that its e-mail service, Gmail, was unavailable to a “small subset of users” this morning and that it was working to correct the problem. Since the alert went out, Twitter and other social media channels have been buzzing about the…
-
Gmail Outage Rattles Cloud Computing Confidence
Google is recruiting solution and managed services providers to its army of resellers that promote switching from expensive, client-side software packages such as Microsoft Office to the less-expensive, cloud-based Google Apps suite. Google’s promise to partners and paying subscribers: affordability and reliability. After the second email service outage this month, Google is fending off growing…