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Disaster Recovery in the Cloud: We’re Not In Kansas Anymore

June 24, 2010 by Jon Schackmuth
Every year during the months of June and July the Midwest gets hit with tremendous storms in the late afternoon to early evening.  If you have never experienced this type of weather pattern, it is quite alarming.  It can be sunny and ninety degrees while sitting at work or spending time at the pool with the kids when dark storm clouds roll in and strong winds blow across the hot blacktop.  If there were tumbleweed lying around, many suburban neighborhoods would look like an old western shootout.

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On One Of The Hottest Memorial Day’s In History

June 4, 2010 by Jon Schackmuth
Track temperature was hovering around 120 degrees Fahrenheit, the crowd of almost 300,000 race fans were settled into their sets with stocked cooler chests, and on Memorial Day weekend, Americans did what they do best, they evoked their freedom of speech; they broke into a chant… U.S.A. - U.S.A. – U.S.A…

On one of the hottest Memorial Day’s in history, you could not pay me enough to leave the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, but for a fleeting moment I did think about work and how cool our server...Read More »

Business Takes Place At The Track

May 27, 2010 by Jon Schackmuth

That’s what I was told a few weeks back on a sunny Saturday afternoon as I watched Justin Wilson’s #22 Indy Car race around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

What does a motorsports marketing company do when it needs access to a server from around the country and maybe the world on race week?  They reach for The Cloud!  Avocado Motorsports Marketing’s Managing Director, Chris McGrath, asked me this very question two weeks ago when my son William and I were enjoying an afternoon in their corporate...
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Outsourcing: Three key decisions a CIO should consider…

April 6, 2010 by Jon Schackmuth
By Jon Schackmuth

Every company has weekly executive meetings covering various topics.  The sales department is responsible for the generating revenue, The CFO is responsible for positive cash flow, and the IT department is responsible for the IT infrastructure; applications, desktops, emails, and so-on. In the weekly meetings, every department head is faced with the deadly question: “Can you do more with less, and if so, how will it impact our overall business?”

There are no department heads hit...Read More »

What Are You Looking For In The Cloud?

February 15, 2010 by Jon Schackmuth
flexibility, security, & possibly reduced capital expenditure…

By Jon Schackmuth

Savvy business owners looking to get in the cloud are looking for flexibility, security and reduced cost.

The underlying question is:  Can small and medium sized businesses find what they are looking for in the cloud at a price they can afford?

Let’s start with flexibility in the cloud.  Simply put, this is what the cloud does best.  When the marketplace changes and we all know it does, the cloud allows business...Read More »