Category: Hosting

  • Top Questions You Should Be Asking Your Potential Cloud Provider

    Making the decision to start moving some of your IT functions into a cloud like our FlxCloud offering can raise questions.  We’ve compiled some of the best questions we get, along with answers from our Chief Technology Officer. >Download the full article As always, for more information about how we can help your business extend…

  • Introducing FLxCloud: Flexible Cloud Computing With Control & Choices.

    Contributed by: Kaitlyn Kicia   Technology has become pervasive in our work and personal lives.  Today the IT systems that run even a modest sized organization have become incredibly specialized and complex.  There is an underlying expectation that all these digital services should ‘just work.’ With this expectation, a complex tangle of technology support pressures…

  • A Silver Lining for the Cloud: VTCRC’s Profile Article on Brush Mountain

    We’re kind of excited to have been profiled this month by the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center! Of course they are happy to brag a little too – we are after all located in their park, and together we make a great solution for other tech focused organizations looking for the complete package of location…

  • When is Hosting your data the right decision? (Part 3 of 3)

    When is Hosting your data the right decision? (Part 3 of 3)

    In Part 1 of this series, I discussed the increasing complexity of information systems that in turn drives up costs.  In Part 2 I addressed the issue of staffing and planning for the skill sets needed to support this increased complexity so your organization can meet its needs. In this final installment on our “Key…

  • When is Hosting your data the right decision? (Part 2 of 3)

    When is Hosting your data the right decision? (Part 2 of 3)

    In Part 1 of this series we discussed Cost and its frequent companion: Complexity.  Now in Part 2, I’ll discuss another key component of our assessment guidelines; namely staffing and acquiring just-in-time skillsets. Talent Availability (The Cost to Have Enough) In the previous post, I talked about the increasing specialization of IT skill sets.  It’s…

  • When is Hosting your data the right decision? (Part 1 of 3)

    When is Hosting your data the right decision? (Part 1 of 3)

    So – let’s ask the question:  when is hosting your data or IT systems the right decision?  The answer? It almost always comes to down to reducing cost, risk or both. Cost comes in several forms.  Some expenses are easily quantifiable on a P&L sheet, and some are qualitative – where the impact can add…