As the battle over gaining and keeping cloud customers heats up it is useful to ask which of the two cloud vendors is cheaper?The answer is: it depends. There are so many different services offered, from storage to database to compute that there is no single answer to that question. We can take a couple common scenarios, however, and look at prices for those. Here we look at current pricing for a couple different compute scenarios as of April 2016. Medium Size Machine A typical ... More Info
GMAIL TO THE RESCUE
In a crisis or disaster situation one of the most critical services to restore first is your email service. Google Apps for Business includes the gmail email service, a secure, reliable cloud based solution for email which can be deployed in minutes or hours for an organization. If your Exchange or other on-site email server had failed, Google Apps can be a great rapid replacement. Here is how it works: Domain Setup Setting up a domain in google apps is a ... More Info
THE CLOUD HEATS UP IN 2016
While the public cloud has become an increasingly imposing force in recent years, 2016 is turning out to be the year of the cloud, and it is still just the beginning. Amazon recently released 1st quarter earning for Amazon Web Services, their massive worldwide computational infrastructure for rent, at over 2.5 billion (with a B) dollars, on track for over 10 billion this year, a whopping 70% increase over last year. All this even in the face of increasing competition from Microsoft, Google and ... More Info
