Field notes from the cloud.

BYOL cloud hosting means you bring your own software licenses to a hosted environment instead of renting new ones from the provider. You already paid for the application. When a host moves it to Microsoft Azure, you keep that license and pay for the hosting, not for the software a second time. For most Windows […]

Yes, you can move on-prem software to Azure without rebuilding it. The method is lift-and-shift hosting: we deploy your existing Windows application into a hardened Azure tenant and publish it through Parallels RAS, so your team reaches it from a browser or client on any device. You skip the rewrite and the months of Azure […]

Three parties touch your customers’ data in a cloud-hosting setup: you (the software vendor), your customer, and the hosting provider. So, who owns the data in cloud hosting? The answer that should hold in every contract you sign: your customer owns their data, you keep the customer relationship, and the hosting provider owns nothing but […]

If you have ever thought, “I want to offer a hosted version of my software, but I am not a cloud company,” here is the short answer: you do not have to be one. You can offer a hosted version of your software without building any Azure infrastructure yourself by partnering with a provider that […]

Your Windows server is end-of-life, which means Microsoft has stopped shipping security patches and your hardware warranty is gone or about to be. You have four real options: buy new hardware and start the cycle over, lift-and-shift the software you already run to a cloud-hosted environment, migrate to a true SaaS replacement, or do nothing […]

How insurance software vendors evaluate cloud hosting under state, federal, and carrier compliance rules, and what hosted infrastructure actually requires.

How construction software cloud hosting fixes jobsite-to-office data flow, multi-project visibility, and the file-handoff problem for trades and contractors.

How CPA firms are running cloud-hosted accounting software through tax season without on-prem servers, and why vendors should care.

Manufacturing ERP cloud hosting is finally catching up to 24×7 shops. Here’s what’s changing for vendors and the multi-shift operations they serve.

How cloud-hosted practice management software actually performs for law firms and professional services, with honest tradeoffs on trust accounting, compliance, and access.