I’d often rather spend my time working on real estate deals then having to futz with techno stuff, but this past week I moved our site to “the Cloud”.  We’ve had our own internet server in the office for years, then moved it to an off site server and now to “the Cloud”. Being  a small company (just 3 of us!), of necessity I’ve learned to grow from our first XT computer to today’s powerful software.

But sometimes the learning curve is a chore! In November we upgraded to new computers running Windows 7, upgrading our applications where applicable, and then our just completed move to “the Cloud”. Just what is “the Cloud”?

It’s simple actually – all data is stored on the internet. The servers could be anywhere in the world, frequently in large data centers with numerous redundant systems. Our data is primarily stored in server 71 in a large data farm in Texas by the DFW airport, but who knows where the backups are (hopefully, they know!).

It’s kind of scary releasing your data into the great unknown. Little did I know how much things would change when I first started figuring out how to use that marvelous little XT computer running DOS in the early 1980s! Looking back, it was so simple!