Council Computers

We are proud to announce our partnerships with Microsoft, Ingram Micro, and Dell. Through these partnerships, we can offer a wide variety of cloud based services and facilities.

Cloud services can help your organization meet it’s technology needs better and for less.

IAAS, SAAS, and PAAS are acronyms we see a lot and they represent different ways to offload technology to the cloud where it can be professionally managed and guarantee higher uptime (less stress) for your organization.

Depending on what you are doing, you will need different levels of service from a cloud provider. Maybe you just need the hardware to be in the cloud so you don’t have to look at it or worry that it might soon fail. That way you can load and manage your preferred operating system and programs on the cloud based infrastructure. That’s called IAAS (Infrastructure As A Service). Maybe you want the cloud provider to handle the Operating System and Networking too. That’s called PAAS (Platform As A Service), and works great for running your own business applications when you don’t want to bother with operating system or network management but still want full control of your applications. SAAS (Software As A Service) is probably the most well known and examples include software like Microsoft Office 365 which is completely web based. The servers are in the cloud, the OS and Network are managed in the cloud and the application itself is in the cloud. That’s it. Cloud in a nutshell.

Cloud architecture can be complex. Sometimes you need to keep some of your programs and data local or even develop a “cloud” that isn’t connected to the outside world. Hybrid clouds and local clouds are common enough and together with our partners, we can help you find the best solution to meet your computing needs.