Vacation Interuptus: Do you have it planned before you leave?

Planning on getting away?

Planning on taking a vacation this summer? If you're a tech manager, you may find yourself with unwanted baggage -- guilt, anxiety over how things are going in your absence or even concern about the status of your job.

·    Remember to show your backups the basics

·    Don't forget to delegate your decision-making authority

·   Designate a No. 2 and disseminate that info widely

 Read the whole article from Computer World!

Grow your data center without capital investment! A Co-location Primer !

Need to plan on expanding data centers?

Even in today's challenging economy, enterprises are facing rising internal and external demands for IT services. When an existing data center can no longer shoulder an enterprise's IT burden alone, or when it becomes necessary to establish a secondary site to provide enhanced business continuity or regional network support, an important decision point has been reached.

For a number of enterprises, the obvious solution is to add another data center, and for many of those it means partnering with a co-location facility.

Are  Pay Walls Coming to Cloud Computing?

Are you going to have to pay for "free" cloud apps?

We're all familiar with Web sites that start out free, then put up a pay wall. Think you won't see the same thing with cloud services?

When it comes to innovation at low cost, it's hard to beat cloud services and applications. As a user of these apps, there's basically no infrastructure cost beyond your ISP fees. On the supply side of apps and services, cloud deployments result in huge cost efficiencies, particularly if the supplier has designed around a multi-tenant architecture. Even if they've just used simple VM deployments, vendors can wring a whole lot more value out of a server rack by driving up utilization rates.

Learn more about the public cloud, private cloud and the pitfalls. Click here!

Prime Telecommunications has

announced a partnership with Apliva, an authorized reseller of Google Apps™  and the Microsoft Office 365 suite of communication and collaboration tools. Through this partnership customers will be able to leverage their existing relationship with Prime Telecommunications to more effectively evaluate and adopt cloud technologies.

The main benefit of Google Apps and Office365 is that users of these products can access their email and all other associated tools from literally any place in the world as long as they have Internet access. There is also a cost benefit as there is no hardware to purchase or software to download, install or maintain on servers.

While Prime Telecommunications continues to enhance its core voice and unified communications solutions, this partnership provides an additional avenue to provide value to its customers. 

Many of our clients have expressed a need for and are ready to take advantage of cloud-hosted information technology services. As a part of the launch of this partnership, we are extending a special consulting offer to all Prime Telecommunications clients.  Through this special offer, the Apliva team will meet with you 1 to 1 and help you understand the differences between Microsoft Office365 and Google Apps.  Then we will create a customized benefits analysis to help you make sure you choose the right path.

Click here to see a video explaining what Google Apps is and how it can help your business.

For more information please visit www.apliva.com