Nuvola

Nuvola - Cloud Computing Services

Ask yourself ...

Would a secure access from your desktop, smartphone, pad or laptop computer to your critical business applications ... anytime-anywhere ... benefit your business?

If the data your business depended on was safe, virtually immune from disasters, and always available, would this be of value to you?

Is saving $$$$ an important strategy for you and your business?

Think about it . . .

If you have answered yes to any of the above questions, then NorVada's Nuvols services may be a perfect fit for enhancing your business!

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Nuvola services from NorVada Technologies are our cloud-based application hosting services that enable your business to utilize world-class data centers to host your critical applications for just pennies an hour. In addition to world class secure and highly-available access to your applications world-wide, our Nuvola services help businesses achieve regulatory compliance by providing data and transport encryption for sensative personal data.

Our cloud services enable your business to:

Simplify your companie's dependence on IT
Protect your most critical data
Save $$$$$

This is accomplished by removing costly, vunerable and aging hardware plus all the power, cooling and security issues from the business equation. With cloud computing, the costs of maintaining a capatilized IT infrastructure are eliminated. The business can then focus on working on the business and not in maintaining a costly IT infrastructure. Cloud comnputing can bring immediate benefits to single applications such as QuickBooks for a small business or for more complex IT infratructures encompasing 100's of servers and their associated storage and networks.

In addition to the server and application benefits, by moving your businesses most critical data to cloud storage, we can make that data virtually disaster-proof. We can also provide on-the-fly encryption for sensative data both in-transit and at-rest helping your business to achieve the required federal and state compliance for the handling of Personally Identifying Information (PII) and Private/Protected Health Information (PHI/ePHI).

All of the above benefits can help your business save $$$$$, protect it's ability to continue operations in the wake of a disaster and comply with federal and state business idenity theft regulations and laws.

So ... What the heck is cloud computing?

First and foremost ... Cloud computing is a business strategy ... not a technology strategy. Employing cloud computing brings the following benefits to the business:

Removes technology refresh as a required business activity and all the overhead and potential disruption to the business associated with replacing old hardware with new.
Removes the need for costly power, cooling, fire supression and the physical security associated with on-site computer rooms or data centers.
Frees $$$$ so the business can concentrate the cloud savings in other areas of the business
Allows for the repurposing of older desktop or laptop systems. This is possible because cloud servers are handling the compute tasks and these older desktop systems only have to run a web browser or remote desktop connect client.
Provides compute, memory, network and storage elasticity so cloud resources can grow and contract as business needs change. You pay for what you need when you need it growing and shrinking your cloud infrastructure on demand. This provides for an efficient IT infrastructure and saves the business $$$$$$.
Helps to enable regulatory compliance in the areas of data security for sensitive non-public information. By storing sensitive information in hardened, secured and certified datacenters along with encrypting data storage and transports, you can be assured of meeting or exceeding federal and state data encryption and physical security regulations.
Allows companies to focus on growing their businesses ... not their IT footprint!
Helps to enable a robust business continuance plan by having business applications in a remote and secure location removes the possibility that a localized disaster that damages or destroys the workplace will also destroy the businesses IT service infrastructure. By creating and deploying a business continuance plan and using cloud hosting strategies, your business can be back up and running in hours instead of days or weeks.

So ... How does cloud computing work?

Simply put ... Applications that would normally be run on local computer systems are now run on computer systems in a remote datacenter and accessed over the Internet. Access is private and safe. This safe Internet environment is provided by a tier-1 cloud hosting provider in SAS-70 type-II certified professionally managed data centers across the USA, Europe and Asia.

Some cloud services host very low sensitive customer information, while others represent mission critical business functions. The key is having cloud-based protection against external threats to your programs and data combined with secure access to working with and managing your data.

The biggest difference between cloud computing and having these applications and data on your laptop or desktop is that they will not get lost, destroyed, or stolen.

Foremost, NorVada Technologies provides guidance within the context of the business mission, risks, rewards, and cloud threat environment—using sound risk management practices.

Once in the cloud, your programs and data can be securely accessed wherever you are . . .

Conveniently
Simply
Safely
Securely

Just as if they were on your laptop or desktop!

In a single sentence ... Cloud Computing is Technology Made Simple!

The following YouTube videos do a pretty good job explaining what cloud computing is.

Cloud Computing Explained

Three Ways to Cloud Compute

Three Reasons to Cloud Compute

The following technical white-paper by the Cloud Computing Use Case Discussion Group is an excellent paper on cloud computing and is recommended reading by Norvada's principal cloud architect.

Download Cloud Computing Use Cases White-Paper

Cloud Hosted Solutions:

- Full QuickBooks Pro/Premier

2008

2009

2010

2011

- Databases

SQL Server

MySQL

Oracle

- Operating Systems

Windows Server 2003 and 2008

Linux – RHEL/CENTOS/Fedora/Ubuntu

Open Solaris

- Collaboration / Productivity

Google Apps

Salesforce

HyperOffice

- Secure File Server Portal

- And Many More ... PeachTree, Joomla, Drupal, WordPress, Moodle, Alfresco, LightHouse, Nagios etc ...

- Custom Applications

- Unified Invoicing

NorVada's Nuvola services can provide you with a simple solution to your IT business challenges. Let's get together for a cup of coffee and discuss how we can help your business achieve greater productivity, save $$$$ and achieve requlatory compliance.