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Introduction

Some introductions are easier to make than others. A name. A handshake. "William and Mary. Class of '75." In our case, being a technology company, an introduction takes some explanation. But only some.


Bringing it all together

We do for cloud computing what a conductor does for a symphony.

To begin, we're not on the same pie chart as Google Apps or Microsoft. Their business is applications. You won't find us in the circle sporting "HP" or "Apple." That's hardware and devices.

And our name doesn't appear on the slide right there next to Amazon, who in the IT world is in the business of providing "commodity-priced infrastructure." A.K.A. highly affordable server space.

Who we are is the company that delivers the critical last piece that makes all of the above products and services (as well as hundreds of others) happily work as a unified IT solution living in the cloud.

We're the partner you need to take full advantage of all that cloud-computing has to offer, and we do it with the world's most advanced cloud computing platform for small to midsize business, OS33 -- easily on a par with the most sophisticated, easy-to-use, easy-to-manage, custom-built cloud computing platforms employed in the Fortune 500.

There’s a great deal more to who we are, but that’s a start.



Executive primer

As your time is at a premium, we've put together an executive primer on cloud computing and cloud platform technologies. It's a quick read. About ten minutes.

It explains the various forms that cloud computing takes—along with pros and cons—and arms you with enough information to enable you to ask smart questions when discussing the subject with your Board, IT Director, or when vetting a cloud computing outsourcing firm.

Pick a virtual leatherback chair. Select a virtual ottoman and put up your feet. (This is, after all, the place on our site for company founders and CEOs. It should be posh, if only virtually.) Then click through the headings on the left and enjoy your brief, but thorough, executive level tutorial in cloud computing.

 

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