Jay Hartley will be discussing the benefits of moving your online business onto Drupal at the 2010 Drupal Conference in San Francisco in April. http://sf2010.drupal.org/conference/sessions/case-studies-publishing-time-out-ny-and-taunton-press
Archive for the ‘Cloud Computing’ Category
Drupal Conference – 2010
Thursday, March 11th, 2010The Right Web Strategy to Take Advantage of Today and Tomorrows Buyers Market
Thursday, October 15th, 2009As a business person pondering the future of the online world, there are many variables involved. Investing in a new online solution may be daunting indeed. Which technology to use? Which hosting partner to select? Which video service to use? What eCommerce shopping cart to use? Which Inventory Management system? Which Content Management System?
Each decision could leave you either ahead of your competition, or dramatically behind them. Not in the next few months perhaps, but definitely when those contracts come up at the end of the year.
Prices will continue to drop on the Internets’ commodity items (storage, bandwidth, server size and speed). That is inevitable. The challenge is trying to ensure that you haven’t ‘painted yourself into a corner’. When your contract come up, what kind of leverage do you have? Is your system portable? Do you know how to move your online sites? Can you do it quickly and cost effectively? Imagine the leverage of having the ability to ‘zip up’ your sites, and move them to a new provider within hours.
The answer to each of these questions will either increase or decrease your leverage in negotiating. This is a competitive challenge. If you don’t have the leverage to change vendors, take advantage of new features, and lower your costs; then you can’t maximize your online business presence. Even worse, what if your competition can? What will the impact to your revenue and margin be?
How comfortable are you with your technology choices?
Cloud Computing and Drupal
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009There are some very interesting new products and services evolving in the Drupal space. Drupal builds are becoming more and more standard in hosting offerings. If you are considering a hosted Drupal package, be sure that you have a plan to manage the updates to Drupal and the modules which support it.
If you don’t want the headache of wandering through the Drupal module release notes, deciding which to apply and then testing whether they will break your site. then you might want to look for a partner to do this for you. We know of a very nice service to insure that your site is kept up to date, safely and securely.
Cloud Computing – Make it work to your competitive advantage
Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Not too many years ago, well funded startups and established large companies had a distinct advantage on the Internet. One of the major advantages was the ability to run their own websites and all them to scale up quickly. The costs of running sites on the Internet was high – between the personnel required to keep the sites up 24×7x365, the physical costs of hardware – the servers, networking equipment and connectivity to the Internet itself, and of course the licensing costs associated with all of the equipment above. It wasn’t just the up front investment, but also the recurring personnel, maintainance and upgrade costs.
The cloud computing model has turned the tables completely. It is similar to a buying coop, with the fixed costs shared across many companies. Now, small and midsized companies have the ability to have a world class data center supporting their web sites for a low monthly fee. Most cloud models will allow you to quickly scale up or down your capacity (the number of users or transactions you need to support and process on a very short time frame – (sometimes in minutes). Compare this to companies which host themselves, where it takes months to scale up and most of the sunk costs involved can not be recaptured.
Is Cloud computing a good solution for you? If so, would you like someone to select the right bundle of services for you, so that you can focus on your business? Let’s talk about the pros and cons. Email us here