Managed IT

The Top Trends in Managed Services: What to Watch for

Managed services have significantly transformed over the last two decades, changing the fundamental foundation of how businesses navigate their IT infrastructure needs. Initially, managed services were mostly focused on basic maintenance activities and break-fix support, with businesses relying on external suppliers to conduct everyday IT chores and repair issues as they occurred. However, as technology advanced and firms sought more strategic methods to use IT to gain a competitive advantage, the scope of managed services grew dramatically. Read More…
Case Studies

CASE STUDY: Peer Support South East Ontario (PSSEO)

“Cloud Metric has been a perfect extension to our IT department, and have delivered precisely what we needed. They are all in, sleeves pulled up, ready to take on any challenge or opportunity as they present themselves.”
– Todd Buchanan – Peer Support Centre Manager

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Cloud Hosting

Cloud 101: Understanding The Essentials

An array of interconnected computers which form a network and provide system resources on-demand such as data storage and computing power is known as cloud hosted infrastructure. The term “cloud” was coined around the late twentieth century with the emergence of the internet. It is essentially a metaphor for storing data redundantly, in the sense that the data isn’t linked to any location in particular but instead resides in the overarching connections between computers, or in other words the “cloud”.

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