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11 April 2012 - 8 Ways Cloud Computing Can Deliver An Instant Return on IT Investment

Below are 8 easy ways Infrastructure as a Service can save money and enable your business to run more efficiently: 1. Simplify IT infrastructure management by removing server hardware configuration from the lead time equation. 2. Enable system administrators to test and provision new software or device upgrades without impacting live systems or user productivity. 3. Increased efficiency through time-saving. New applications can be up and ... More!

9 April 2012 - Bureaucloud® Exits Public Beta

Finally, after over 6 months of running a stable Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IAAS) platform, Bureaucloud® has reached a new milestone. Thanks to the extensive experience of the Bureaucloud Team, the platform has always been in use by clients and in a production ready state. It was cautiously still considered to be under "Public Beta" until we were able to prove our enterprise-class service to the rest of the world. Having met all the Ser ... More!

9 March 2012 - Start your new online business faster with £50 Adwords™ credit

Any client purchasing a new "Organisation Layout” in March will receive a £50 Google Adwords™ voucher to help bring your business to life. Optimise your IT spend and maximise your marketing budget at the same time. Delivering an even high return on investment via the Cloud is possible using Bureaucloud's VMware driven platform.To get started, choose your Organisation Layout with any additional resources or services you might require from ... More!

8 March 2012 - HP Project Voyager: The Gen8 Server Launch

HP tonight delivered the London launch of their new generation of servers, the Gen8 or G8 range: HP Project Voyager. They are boasting 900+ patents and a sizeable ($300M) investment around R&D from the point of view of their customer's previous issues. It was delivered from a nice perspective of focussing both the needs of the end customer and large scale automation. In a nutshell, if you have subscribed to the HP tale so far, 2006 brought ... More!

3 February 2012 - London IT: The Olympics will impact your IT strategy

For those of us based in the city, there is no escaping the London 2012 Olympics. Hopefully you managed to receive the tickets that you applied for during the Olympic ballot. Sadly our attempt to see the world 100m record broken by Bolt was dashed when we were allocated tickets to see the canoeing. Thanks to TFL, Olympic organisers and anyone else who has been given the power to disrupt through prevention, we see ourselves being very busy. It ... More!

29 January 2012 - VMUG, London 26th January, 2012

Today was the first London VMUG (Vmware User Group) of the year. It also happened to be the first VMUG that the Bureaucloud team has attended. The real aim of our day was to find out what other people may be experiencing on in their IT journey and what others have done to resolve many of the issues. VMUG boasts a crowd of attendees who were brave enough to adopt virtualization in the early days. Some of them staked their entire career on Vmware a ... More!

31 December 2011 - New Year 2012 update from Bureaucloud

Happy New Year from the Bureaucloud® Team! Over at Bureaucloud, we finished 2011 on a big high. Some of our major achievements over the year included: - Increasing our Network uptime guarantee from 99.99% to 99.999% by adding additional network redundancy; - The launch of our online store allows users to sign up and order their virtual private datacentre and infrastructure as a service (IAAS) at any time; - Provisioning times were ... More!

24 December 2011 - Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas from the Bureaucloud Team and best wishes for 2012!! ... More!

18 November 2011 - Bureaucloud Winter Competition

WINNER UPDATE: Congratulations to Naveen R who won the competition. Naveen has chosen to focus on VMware vCloud Director for an upcoming Cloud adoption project. Thanks to all the others who participated. At Bureaucloud, our year has been a very memorable one. Our consultancy side has continued to provide advice to financial businesses whilst the infrastructure platform which launched in April has remained very stable ... More!

8 November 2011 - How to plan a move to the Cloud

If you are reading this, it is likely that you currently do or will play a role in a Cloud computing strategy within your organisation. Regardless of your background or business methodology the conditions for moving to the cloud tend to be similar: competitive advantages can be gained through more efficient use of resources in the Cloud; there is a cost benefit to using a service managed by a specialised service provider; using a cloud ... More!

25 October 2011 - Use existing Microsoft Licenses on Bureaucloud?

One major challenges when moving to the Cloud or outsourcing any IT service is ensuring that your licenses remain compliant. Changes to the IT environment can sometimes render licenses invalid, causing more (and often unforeseen) expense. Not long ago, Microsoft created the License Mobility program, allowing customers with certain application server licenses to move these licenses and apply them to the Bureaucloud environment. The benef ... More!

11 October 2011 - Why Bureaucloud? Part 2

In the first part of this article we explained what the Bureaucloud platform is and what it can do for you. The second part outlines why Bureaucloud is so useful to small and medium sized business seeking to outsource some of the IT infrastructure to a service provider… Why use the Bureaucloud platform? In the drivers for change mentioned in part 1, Bureaucloud aims to accomplish the lion’s share of the work around IT infrastructure which ... More!

10 October 2011 - Why Bureaucloud? Part 1

A number of people including everyday users, company directors and IT administrators have asked us what is the Bureaucloud platform and what does it do? We wanted to explain why we created Bureaucloud and how we believe it can help you achieve more if you are a small or medium sized business. What follows is a two-part article about the platform… What does the Bureaucloud platform do for you? The platform is a simple way of allowing s ... More!