A few weeks ago, Superstorm Sandy ravaged the East Coast, leaving devastation
in its wake. Thousands of people were without power, food, and water. It
quickly became clear that Sandy’s aftermath would bring life on the East
Coast to a standstill for days as the region began to rebuild.
Early estimates of the damage put the business loss associated with the storm
as high as $30 billion. But Grudi Associates, The John M. Glover Agency, and
many others weren’t a part of that group. Evolve IP’s redundant cloud
platform allowed them to run their businesses remotely as the storm raged on.
For example, InformationWeek Cloud picked up the story of how we helped Apria
Health Care stay functional during the storm so that they could continue to
provide their vital health services to customers in the days after the storm.
Thanks to Evolve IP, Apria was able to deliver essential p... (more)
You don’t have to be a techie to have heard about the challenges Amazon’s
faced with its EC2 elastic cloud offering over the weekend. States of
emergency were declared up and down the eastern seaboard after a destructive
line of thunderstorms knocked out power in over 4 million homes — including
Amazon’s East Coast cloud data center. The outage took down Netflix,
Pinterest, Instagram and well-known cloud applications, as well as cutting
off access to countless numbers of businesses whose names we might never
know.
Since then, media and social media have been speculating on what ... (more)
When I sat down to write this post, I did some prep reading to see what the
bloggers I follow were saying on the topic. But by the third post, I was
reminded that we (the tech nerds) are not generally helpful. Tech nerds talk
and write in our own language. We write to look smarter than the next guy. We
invent words to describe what we’re doing, and if these words catch on in
the mainstream, we just invent another one to further confuse the issue.
It’s at this point that the big box manufacturers and software companies
adopt the word and modify it for their own nefarious intentions... (more)
International Data Corporation, in conjunction with Microsoft, recently
announced research that suggested that by 2015, the cloud will add 14 million
jobs across the globe. It’s safe to say that we’ve crossed the chasm
(thanks Geoffrey), at least in terms of acceptance of the cloud as the way
businesses will use technology in the future.
The question is no longer, “Are you in the cloud?” But rather, “What
are you using it for?”
Unfortunately, just when we think people are starting to “get” the cloud,
a new level of confusion is being introduced by the cloud providers
themselve... (more)
According to Microsoft, the number of small businesses entering the cloud
business will triple in the next few years. So if you’ve already become a
part of that statistic, you’ve made a wise choice. Unless, of course,
you’ve picked the wrong provider to be your partner.
Picking the right partner is easier said than done. And when it comes to the
cloud, it’s hard to tell one provider from the next. So if you can’t even
tell them apart, how are you supposed to pick one that will help you grow
during the next phase of your evolution?
Only you know what will be the right fit for your... (more)
Scott Kinka is Chief Technology Officer for Evolve IP. He has spent almost his entire career devising new and simpler ways for companies to acquire and integrate technology. While all of the tech talk these days is about the cloud, he was doing this when it was called ASP (application service provider) or on-demand. Before Scott joined Evolve IP as Chief Technology Officer, he served as Vice President of Network Services for Broadview Networks and ATX Communications. He has been involved in application development, hosting, messaging, networking, unified communications, contact centers, and security. His mission (and specialty) is acting as a translator between technology and business needs.
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