I recently came across a quarterly publication of Asian Scientist, that reported how nanotechnology is reinventing medicine (Asian Scientist, Vol. 1, Issue 3, July – September 2014). The rise of the nanorobots has huge implications to our battle against many diseases. For those familiar with nanorobots, they are like drones locking onto the bad cells such as cancerous cells and releasing drugs to kill them off while sparing the healthy ones. Therefore legacy treatments will need to be re-evaluated.

The Better Business Bureau is the most recognized accreditation in North America. When an informed consumer sees the BBB logo on a front door, it typically gives them a sense of security, knowing the company has made a commitment to uphold certain standards. Meeting specific accreditation criteria should be achievable for most well-managed organizations and gaining the endorsement of a respected industry association can be invaluable to your business.

With customers moving to the cloud, the challenges facing their channel providers are growing. In fact, over 40 percent of channel providers say the cloud is driving them in new directions, according to a recent survey by CompTIA, a nonprofit trade group. In the same survey, nearly as many channel providers also said their customers are demanding new services and IT delivery models.

Building and maintaining modern data centers can be a very expensive proposition, best left to the experts. For many years, data center management companies delivered co-location and managed hosting services for their customers that wanted to take advantage of access to world class data centers without having to build their own. Now that public cloud IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) is a well-established $13 billion industry, companies increasingly are looking at IaaS as a more cost effective and flexible alternative.