...Elastic infrastructure provisioning (EIP anyone?), on the other hand, is a meat-and-potatoes capability you’ll want as soon as you can get it, whether it’s inside your own data center or...…
...into the Cloud and paying for them there, while ignoring the free ones sitting inside the firewall and directly in front of the end-users who need the results, it’s just...…
...a Plan B in your back pocket. You, however, will become an expert in high performance computing (Or recruit and develop trusted experts for your team). For the nerds, the...…
...knowing a bit more, and you’ll be a bit safer. Installing free software: In a small office like yours I’m guessing you don’t lock down everyone’s system, and that’s okay....…
...feasible capabilities your company can use to gain competitive advantage. Last week’s column mentioned Google Maps as an example. You might also include YouTube and Hulu in your thinking. What...…
...nor can it include on-premises communications gear such as PBXs, routers, and firewalls. And “company” will have to exclude sole-proprietorships, whose entire IT infrastructure consists of laptops and smartphones, using...…
...to support it. It solves nothing: Outsource something you don’t know how to manage and you still don’t know how to manage it, only now, you’re badly managing a company...…
...clean integration, and no ads. Yes, often you get ads on something if you don’t pay for it. The cons of the free ones are lack of clean integration (Google...…
...everyone in the IT universe: No matter what your context is, and who you’re working with, you didn’t invent collaboration. If you want credit for originality, COME UP WITH SOMETHING...…
...on, to a prediction: “Why aren’t we in the Cloud?” will supersede “Why aren’t our factories in China?” as the most-often asked rhetorical question in business. It’s time, because those...…