Organizations embark on cloud migrations for a variety of reasons. Whether it is to reduce their infrastructure cost, scalability or improve their overall performance and time to market. One thing is certain, migrating applications to the cloud is complex and requires careful planning and information to get it right when you do decide to make a move. Don’t know where to start? No problem. You have been asked by your CIO to move some business applications to the cloud. Now you are faced with the challenge of knowing where to begin; what the impact of a potential move would have on your organization’s infrastructure. CloudScape doesn’t make the application move for you; it will do a lot of the legwork to get you started in putting together an effective migration strategy. Cloudscape is the fastest way to turn infrastructure data into migration decisions. Key Benefits Identify immediate opportunities: Start small and scale your application migrations by finding the best opportunities to migrate. Best fit for cloud: Not all applications are created equally. CloudScape helps identify the most suitable applications for cloud. Application Architecture Considerations: With CloudScape, you will have all the data needed to evaluate how the app is architected, the level of effort required to move it, what impact will moving to cloud have on demand. Reduce Target Cloud Cost: Evaluate cost and resource requirements for public and private cloud by comparing the cost of running applications in target cloud environments. “We were delivered a mapping of our application interdependencies, how they talked to each other, the level of chatter, and we built that into our migration plan to help us reduce dependencies on our direct connect link.” – Keith Hochberg Vice President, Compute and Cloud Services at Viacom For more information contact Carl Steffens at 402.323.4805 or email csteffens@bizco.com. Check out the 10 Critical Steps of Cloud Readinesshere. ...read more

There many online business owners that understand that online marketing is the best form of marketing while there are some that are still new to the whole thing, regardless in this blog I will discuss the honest potential of online marketing efforts. First, do you have an online present?  If not, WHY NOT?  If you have been in business for some time then you should at least have the domain name.  Here is a discount link if you are looking to register it, when you click on this link you will be brought to godaddy.  There you can type in the domain name, click order and then at the end of the process you will see that you only paying 9.00 dollars or less(they change all the time) instead of 11.00 dollars.  Here is the link Having an online presence opens your entire business to hundreds if not thousands of locals and even millions of customers worldwide.  And with over 90% of consumers using the online field for their shopping grounds(reported from ComScore, Kelly Group,&Google; Market Research Company) it is a no brainer to get online and get seen locally. But did you know that if you're not online and your potential customers want more information, you think for a second that they will just call you and waste their time when they can look at your competitors page for services?  That's right, business owners are not using their website presence effectively which results in angry&mad potential clients and of course a waste of money.  Customers just won't bother to click on your site.  There are many owners who just pass this job off to the computer employee that is expected to know this stuff...wrong again(and kudos to those who understand how to design and effectively communicate online). You see having an employee just put up your website is not good enough anymore. Consumers want more and as a consumer, they and myself want more.  Consumers want to know your services, contact information, location, videos, social media(not highly required but is increasing) and a local number to call you.  They want to hear and see other reviews about your company online and if they should do business with you.  Some people base their opinion online strictly and if you are not online or have any good reviews, you can be sure they will go with their friend's suggestion or another company that has a good review. That is just the icing on the cake. Did you know that there are over 1 billion local searches performed every month?  I'm serious, people go straight to their favorite search engines, type it in and wait for results.  And that is where the offline business owners should have an online business presence.  Think about it yourself,do you go past the first page often?  Probably not, you want your information and you want it now...Guess what? That is exactly how your customers think and feel, if your not on the first page, then you probably aren't important and never will be.  Don't be offended, instead be encouraged that you are learning about this now instead of 10 years later when you realize your sales are down than they might be now.  Instead realize that you too can be a part of the online growth of online revenue. So here's the potential: At least in Lincoln- 250,000+ searches performed everyday for various products and services where are you listed in the search engines? All the local searchers are looking for you: doctors, dentists, plumbers, flowers, movies, retail stores, coffee shops, consultants, artists, driver and much more. All of them are using what's on the first page to make their calls and purchasing decisions. Here You Are: 1)You have a business that is either online or not 2)Your sales are possibly down or you are looking for more sales 3)You are unsure how to get new clients 4)You know that everyone is online these days and you want to get those clients and make some money 5)Your mission: -Get online -Get on the first page 6)Hire a internet marketer that knows the online landscape, has live results to prove and has client reviews to back it up 7)Your Choice Now:  -Use a company that has been in the business of phone books -Hire a company that says they can do it but shows you no proof -Hire a company that can give you the best web design -Hire a company that can help your company with hosting Or lastly, Choose a company that can offer you discounts, honest internet marketing, rankings and results? Whatever your choice is, I hope you choose wisely from the start of your domain registration to the marketing to the increase in online sales ...read more

Did you know that in order to increase your business awareness you have to try something different?  Additionally, did you know that more of your customers and soon to be customers all use the internet to find services and products?  You can search it all day long and find out that the traditional meanings of marketing are losing money and are practically out the window.  It is time to increase your brand, customer traffic, and your sales.  If you are interested in internet marketing and getting your business on the first page of the search engine business listings, contact us today!        ...read more