iNamics puts Legacy Software put into the Cloud
Posted by alharlow on March 8, 2011
iNamics recently earned a new hosting customer (The Winemakers Database – www.wmdb.com), and the work we did for them has opened up a new world of possibilities for iNamics and future customers. We didn’t realize it as we were doing the work (which took a couple of months of back and forth trial and error), but we realize what impact it could have now, if we can get the word out.
Ironically, another hosting provider (a sophisticated one, at that) could not do what we did; or at least do it well. And what we did opens up the Cloud for hundreds, perhaps thousands of companies.
Accomplishment: We put legacy software made by WMDB in the Cloud. It’s now hosted on our servers at our data facility in downtown Cleveland, and already two of their customers are actively using it without any of the headaches associated with computer equipment and software maintenance. In our private, secure Cloud network, we do all that for them.
Okay, so, for those of you who don’t know what this means, here’s an explanation:
1. Maybe you’ve seen Microsoft’s commercials lately about “going to the Cloud”? The Cloud is merely a fancy way of describing the hosting of software applications on remote servers accessed over the Internet, through software such as Remote Desktop. (The company Citix invented remote access of computers years ago, licensed the technology to Microsoft and markets it through products such as “Go to Meeting” and “Go to My PC”.)
2. Typically, a software application has to be rewritten so it can be hosted and work over an Internet connection, usually done through creating browser pages, or a website. In our case, we develop web application using Microsoft’s dot net platform. Writing a web application can cost tens of thousands of dollars, and take over a year, depending on the scope of the project. Currently, iNamics has three large projects in-house, where we are being paid to develop applications to run and be hosted on the Internet.
3. Legacy software can not typically run over the Internet and be offered as a “Software-as-a-Service” (SaaS) application. But many companies have written software running on their local (at their facility) servers (computers), and there’s no way they can even entertain taking those legacy systems and placing them in the hands of a hosting company to maintain without a lot of work and headaches and possible failure — that is until we’ve proven it can be done.
If you have a “legacy” application used to help you run your business such as an ERP or MSP system, give us a call here at iNamics and let’s discuss with you how we can take it to the Cloud, saving you thousands of dollars in servers, hardware and maintenance.
The author of this post, Al Harlow, is President and CEO of iNamics Corporation, a leader in website development, hosting and computer repair in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. To contact him, or to learn more about this subject matter and “Affordable, Reliable I.T. Services, Products and Support“, go to www.iNamics.com. This blog is also published at http://inamics.wordpress.com.
iNamics recently earned a new hosting customer (The Winemakers Database – www.wmdb.com), and the work we did for them has opened up a new world of possibilities for iNamics and future customers. We didn’t realize it as we were doing the work (which took a couple of months of back and forth trial and error), but we realize what impact it could have now, if we can get the word out.
Ironically, another hosting provider (a sophisticated one, at that) could not do what we did; or at least do it well. And what we did opens up the Cloud for hundreds, perhaps thousands of companies.
Accomplishment: We put legacy software made by WMDB in the Cloud. It’s now hosted on our servers at our data facility in downtown Cleveland, and already two of their customers are actively using it without any of the headaches associated with computer equipment and software maintenance. In our private, secure Cloud network, we do all that for them.
Okay, so, for those of you who don’t know what this means, here’s an explanation:
1. Maybe you’ve seen Microsoft’s commercials lately about “going to the Cloud”? The Cloud is merely a fancy way of describing the hosting of software applications on remote servers accessed over the Internet, through software such as Remote Desktop. (The company Citix invented remote access of computers years ago, licensed the technology to Microsoft and markets it through products such as “Go to Meeting” and “Go to My PC”.)
2. Typically, a software application has to be rewritten so it can be hosted and work over an Internet connection, usually done through creating browser pages, or a website. In our case, we develop web application using Microsoft’s dot net platform. Writing a web application can cost tens of thousands of dollars, and take over a year, depending on the scope of the project. Currently, iNamics has three large projects in-house, where we are being paid to develop applications to run and be hosted on the Internet.
3. Legacy software can not typically run over the Internet and be offered as a “Software-as-a-Service” (SaaS) application. But many companies have written software running on their local (at their facility) servers (computers), and there’s no way they can even entertain taking those legacy systems and placing them in the hands of a hosting company to maintain without a lot of work and headaches and possible failure — that is until we’ve proven it can be done.
If you have a “legacy” application used to help you run your business such as an ERP or MSP system, give us a call here at iNamics and let’s discuss with you how we can take it to the Cloud, saving you thousands of dollars in servers, hardware and maintenance.
The author of this post, Al Harlow, is President and CEO of iNamics Corporation, a leader in website development, hosting and computer repair in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. To contact him, or to learn more about this subject matter and “Affordable, Reliable I.T. Services, Products and Support“, go to www.iNamics.com. This blog is also published at http://inamics.wordpress.com.
