Take a moment to think about how many of your business’s operations depend on the availability of its servers and applications. Many business owners and executives find it challenging to think of a single operation that doesn’t depend directly or indirectly on connectivity, computation, and data...

In the earliest days of the cloud, adoption was driven by startups and smaller businesses eager to access enterprise-grade infrastructure without making a large capital investment. Enterprise organizations were more conservative, constrained as they were by regulatory compliance concerns and...

Every three years or so, businesses with on-premises server deployments are faced with a decision. Do they embark on the usual server update cycle, with the capital outlay that implies, or do they make the leap to a modern public or private cloud platform? In recent years, an increasing number...

In the modern IT environment, security and privacy are of critical importance to cloud vendors and their clients. Security is a partnership in any infrastructure hosting scenario: both the vendor and the client must do their part to keep data safe. Where exactly the division of responsibility...

The simple answer to the question of who benefits from cloud platforms is this: any individual or organization that needs scalable, on-demand enterprise-grade server hosting. That includes startups, small businesses, established corporations, government agencies, and just about any other...

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Far too often businesses see the cloud as a space for data storage, cost savings, and...