Heads in the cloud
May 23, 2016
Grazed from NZBusiness. Author: Editorial Staff.
When it comes to cost-effectiveness, ‘the Cloud’ clearly rocks. The evidence is everywhere. You may remember a time when the word ‘cloud’ was only associated with the weather – those fluffy white, sometimes angry grey, things floating in the sky. But in 2016, thanks to a legacy started by a group of tech execs at Compaq Computer in Houston, Texas, 20 years ago, ‘cloud’ is a popular cliché that stands for the ‘online hosted’ model of delivering software services to businesses. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is another name preferred by techies. NZBusiness lined up a whole team of cloud services experts to contribute to this Guide.
A logical person to start with was LayerX Group CEO Bruce Trevarthen, because he has operated in this space since the very early days. His company registered the domain name ‘theCloud’ in 2008 and created a purpose-built cloud platform for delivering services to the SME market – “as a commodity and with zero-touch”…
Trevarthen’s ethos has long been about delivering enterprise IT capabilities on demand to small businesses without the premium price-tag. He’s had good success both in New Zealand and Canada. His vGRID cloud platform delivers Internet connectivity, Exchange email, data backup, business and voice services…
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