Ascend Analytics Predicts 100 Percent of Clients Moving to "Private Cloud" Hosting Service

That growth in Ascend’s hosting component matches a trend across a spectrum of users and industries. Cloud computing has gone from buzzword to every-day solution for everybody from high-traffic web sites to iPod users keeping their music tracks on iCloud. For Ascend’s customers, that always-ready, on-demand service isn’t just dependable; It’s indispensable. With secure links, Ascend can map directly into client systems with seamless flows.

The best hardware to match that system

Ascend as well knows the best hardware to match that system. Burrows, who wrote the first code for Ascend’s signature PowerSwimm program, says companies can avoid the expense of new hardware and the hundreds of employee hours it might take to select the right equipment and at that time make it work with their network. They don’t have to maintain the servers. They don’t have to worry about a systems crash or a spilled cup of coffee. They have access to Ascend software backed up on Ascend hardware 24 hours a day. “They get it when they want it from wherever they want it,” Burrows explains, describing the Ascend-hosted user experience as “seamless.”

Those advantages make Ascend’s “private cloud” a proven solution, as solid as the software. Burrows and his research service started providing hosting services in2006.