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Cloud Service 101: Data and backups in the Cloud
Part 2 of our Cloud Services series covering the most common use of the Cloud: data storage and backups.

Cloud 101: Wrap up and what’s next
We’ve only started to scratch the surface of cloud computing. In this series I covered some of the basics of the cloud (there is no cloud, you’re just using other people’s computers), backups, disaster recovery, on demand servers, and software as a service, but those are just a five of myriad ways we can tap into the Cloud.

Cloud 101: Servers on Demand
From Part 3 of this series you know that we can keep virtual servers at the ready for disaster recovery, but what about a live server? Or even a development or staging server? Couldn’t you avoid having to buy and maintain hardware by just using Cloud resources for more server capacity? Yes!

Cloud 101: Hosted Applications
Whatever you need to do, there is a SaaS app for it. For almost any web app there are versions you can subscribe to that you can run on your own servers as part of a cloud service.

Checkout The New Microsoft Surface Line
Technology solutions serving Vancouver, Victoria, Edmonton, and Western Canada.

Calling All IT Guys!
Today outsourcing doesn’t mean replacing A business providing managed IT services today can function as a company’s entire IT department—but it doesn’t have to. Often the remote IT team takes on a supporting role within an existing IT department, allowing internal IT to focus their attention on the really important issues, rather than the daily grind.

Calculating the Costs of IT in Your Business
Microserve’s IT cost calculator, a valuable took help

BYOD’s Big Lie
When people talk about letting everyone bring their own machines to work, they conveniently forget the big issues that need to be addressed: software, support, confidential information, and security. This is the big BYOD lie.

Bangladesh Central Bank Hacked Because of $10 Router
Honestly I couldn’t believe what I was reading when I saw this headline: Bangladesh Bank exposed to hackers by cheap switches, no firewall: police. Wait, what? The words “cheap switches” and “no firewall” have no business being anywhere close to the word “bank”.