The state of Washington is investing $180 million to build a new data center. The new facility will also serve as the for the state’s Information Services division. Whilst no one knows why exactly this decision was taken and with cloud computing on the rise, my thoughts immediately went to Apsona’s flexible architecture.
Apsona can be hosted in the cloud. Most users are going in for hosted solutions these days. Cloud computing is certainly on the rise. With Apsona a user can set himself up in a few hours. All he requires is an internet connection and a browser. He can import his data and start enjoying the benefits of the application immediately.
Yet, Apsona’s development team also kept in mind users who are still wary of cloud computing. Security and outage issues are still concerns for many. So to cater to this segment, the design choice is such that users can install Apsona behind a firewall. So the data now resides on the user’s server and not in the cloud. This feature is not offered by most hosted applications. Even better, a user can start of using Apsona hosted and later decide can have it installed on his server.
True portability anyway you want it. Either way the user is the winner!