Internet Bandwidth

The date is 1985; long distance is .60 per minute. You are talking to your grandparent and your parents say “make it quick, its long distance”. I am sure everyone can relate. Whether you are on a cell phone or business internet or at home, the same thing is happening today with our Internet costs. Telco’s had to replace that revenue and continue to gouge us on the usage. I only have to ask why at home Telco’s allow 100’s of gigabytes of transfer and at business's they charge over $2 per gigabyte? They are the same lines! Being is that in Canada we pay over 20 times what other countries pay means we should have some sort of management over this other than the CRTC which doesn’t seem to know what technology is let alone govern it.

Does anyone else feel this pain and have an opinion?

Alex Webb
CEO
SSI Solutions

Industry Trends

One of the things I love most about my job is staying tuned-in to the IT industry and adjusting our business model to be the most value to businesses. Most of the past decade has been about standardizing IT infrastructure to enable line-of-business apps to run smoothly. Disaster Recovery and proactive management have dominated IT conversations. With end user technology slowing down and standardized infrastructure solutions becoming a simple line item on a proposal, the industry has placed far more focus on lower cost CPU utilization by using shared server recourses and calling it the “cloud”. Now depending on who you ask the cloud may be a server or it may be an application served up over the Internet. Regardless of what it is, it should mean a reduction of cost from having on an on premise server. The thought is now shifting from who can sell and support a server to who can I trust with my data and systems. Over the next 5 years we will see infrastructure costs go down that will allow business to transfer some of that budget over to better business apps, productivity apps and communication apps of which all achieve a better bottom line.

Alex Webb
CEO
SSI Solutions