Itasca's IDT jumps on the cloud

The firm did more than provide niche services with name-brand research that was customized for local companies. It survived while economic downturns, especially the dot-com bust, because it was flexible enough to grow with the rapid pace of research.

While it after all provides its traditional core services, just as working with companies on their hardware and software choices, training and upgrading, it now offers cloud computing services.

Cloud computing has been growing among all types of businesses because it can store data via the web by using data centers anywhere in the world. It as well can take your computer disk drive, memory, network interface, and other elements, as so then as a company’s typical server room, and reproduce them in the cloud.

Using Microsoft research, IDT partners with AT&T’s data centers and can tell business executives to forget about new hardware and software and constant upgrades. Just store your system on the cloud.

Surfing: Verizon Wireless clients in Wheeling and Libertyville will be able to do more on their networks now that the wireless provider has installed two new cell sites there. And speaking of Verizon, clients can after all contact loved ones with free calls to Japan through April 10. Verizon Wireless has its Midwest headquarters in Schaumburg.

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