Field notes from the cloud.

This dental practice cloud migration case study is illustrative. We built it to show how a move can go for a practice with an aging server, an owner who wants reports from home, and a backup that hasn’t been tested. The practice and its staff are invented. The steps are the ones a real move […]

A disaster recovery plan is simply how your business gets back up and running fast after something goes wrong, whether that’s a dead server, a ransomware attack, a fire, or someone deleting the wrong thing. You do not need an IT department or a thick binder to have one. Most of a good plan comes […]

Cloud hosting means running the software your business already uses on servers in a data center, so your team can reach it from anywhere, without buying or managing your own server. That one idea raises a lot of questions, so this cloud hosting FAQ answers the ones people actually ask: what it is, what it […]

Somebody on your team asks the first licensing question: “Do we have to buy the software again?” In most cases, no. Bring your own license hosting means you keep the license you already hold from your software vendor and use it in the hosted environment. You don’t repurchase the software, and your agreement stays between […]

Our Windows business software hosting experience goes back to 2000, through our parent brand, CloudTop Office. The short version of what those years taught us fits on one checklist. CloudTop SaaS is the newer brand. The track record belongs to the parent, and we’ll say so wherever it matters. Since 2000 hosting Windows business software, […]

Who owns your data in cloud hosting? You should, and the contract should say so in plain words. If it doesn’t, keep asking until it does. It’s a fair thing to ask on a first call: “And the data is mine, right?” Somewhere near the last page of most hosting agreements sits a clause that […]

Your quote says published apps or VDI. Here’s what your staff see at sign-in under each, and when a full virtual desktop is the better call.

When a hosting provider says it inherits Azure’s SOC 2, it means the data centers and cloud platform under your software fall inside Microsoft’s independently audited controls. It does not mean your application, your user accounts, or your data practices sit inside that audit too. Azure SOC 2 hosting shared responsibility splits the work across […]

A perpetual-license vendor doesn’t have to rebuild as SaaS to start earning recurring revenue. Here’s how ISV recurring revenue hosting works as a bridge.

A lift and shift windows app move keeps your existing application exactly as it is and simply relocates where it runs, from a local server to a hosted cloud environment. Rip-and-replace means retiring that application and rebuilding the workflow on new software entirely. Most legacy software decisions get framed as a values question. It’s actually […]