With Apple’s iCloud service you can store your music, photos, documents, and more data wireless, in a cloud service, or better yet, in the iCloud. You can deploy your data to all your devices automatically and without any headaches. Have you ever been driving down the road or sitting at your desk at work and [...]

Paris based cloud services firm, Jolicloud has taken the next step in cloud evolution with the release of private beta for Jolicloud Me. Jolicloud Me is an integration application for all your cloud based services on the web.   Jolicloud Me allows you to sync all cloud based services on the web and keep them [...]

It wasn’t that long ago small businesses had pretty limited choices when choosing an email solution: Either host your own Microsoft Exchange server or find a POP email provider. While a POP solution is cheaper it has many limitations and is missing a couple important features critical to most businesses: no shared calendar/contacts and very [...]

This year there have been several natural events that have reminded us about the fragile nature of things. Just this past weekend a powerful ‘Noreastern’ hit the New England area leaving millions without power. These events remind us that we must be prepared. At home you pack extra water, candles, propane and stock canned food [...]

I recently came across a client who needs 22 TB’s of data sync’d up between 2 locations, both locations housing big and bulky RAID systems, and they are both Macs.  We’ve reviewed products like Dropbox, Box.net, Sugar Sync, etc…, and they are all fantastic, and have a reasonable price tag, if you don’t have enormous [...]

Cloud computing has emerged as a viable alternative to traditional IT practices for businesses and organizations of all sizes. Increasing improvements in software, hardware, and network aspects of computing are making the choice to move your organization’s information system to the cloud a practical option rather than a risky venture. The concept of the cloud [...]

If you ask most small business owners what they think about ‘the cloud’ i.e. virtualized or cloud computing, you will get a myriad of responses from early adopters to staunch defenders,  naysayers  and non-believers alike. The fact of the matter is no matter how you feel about a cloud computing infrastructure – its Achilles heel [...]

In my work, I’m often asked by clients if they should set up their own email server and manage it or have it managed in the cloud and pay monthly fees to do so. This is an excellent question with no one answer for all businesses. The real answer is, what works best for your business [...]

By now you have probably heard the term “Cloud Computing” or “The Cloud”. Heck, even Microsoft talks about it in their latest television ad campaign. But what is The Cloud really? In its simplest terms, The Cloud is simply other people’s computers that you access over the Internet. These computers can be owned by Google, [...]