An OFFSITE techie’s view on why OFFSITE is a cut above My name is Matt Geary and I’m a Support Engineer at OFFSITE. Among the things you rely on a data center for are: Backup; and Redundancy. One of the benefits of my position here at OFFSITE is the experience of being able to visit… View More

The data center/in house hybrid. Because IT IS a service. From time to time, every department in every organization in America needs to remind itself that it exists to provide a service. Finance? It’s not an end in itself; it’s a service. To the organization and to the organization’s customers. Marketing? A service.… View More

IaaS: What It Is and When It Makes Sense To Use It. The rapid growth in cloud computing has produced a matching growth in cloud services – specifically: Software as a service (SaaS); Platform as a service (PaaS); and Infrastructure as a service (IaaS). The first two of these… View More

How Colocation Services Make Sudden Expansion Possible Happy the CIO whose company knows exactly where it will be three, five, ten years from now. Planning could not be easier. The man or woman in this happy position can start thinking about what to do with all the free time that is going to be available. Get… View More

What Fuels the Growth Of the Cloud? Cloud hosting has come a long way in a short time. Once regarded as a place for start-up companies who lacked the capital to set up IT systems of their own, it is now the home of Big Business and Big Data. The reasons for this growth aren’t… View More