J. Nicholas Hoover
J. Nicholas Hoover's Bio
Nick Hoover is a senior editor for InformationWeek Government, where he covers the federal IT sector. He has written numerous cover stories, features and news stories for the publication and its Website, interviewing CIOs and IT leaders across the government. He's written exclusives on technology at secretive spy agencies, features on critical cybersecurity needs, and stories about everything from cloud computing to financial management systems. In his time with InformationWeek, Hoover has covered various beats, including networking, Microsoft, collaboration and cloud computing. Currently, he's also attending law school in the evenings at the University of Maryland School of Law.
Research & Reports
SMEs and the Cloud: How Much Is Too Much?
This exclusive downloadable research report examines how outsourcing certain IT functions to a service provider can pay off for small and midsize businesses, even more than for large enterprises. But go too far into the cloud, and you may suffer in terms of maintaining agility and responsiveness to market forces.
Secure Design on a Dime: Our Top 5 Best Practices for SMEs
This exclusive downloadable research report details the security tools that small shops need, at a minimum, to prepare for the increasingly complex security and compliance environment that exists today and the top 5 ways growing businesses can stretch their IT budgets.
Current SMB Issue
- Cloud Beyond SaaS: SMBs have saved big buying software on a subscription model. Here's how to determine if infrastructure services can pay off, too.
- 1,000 Servers, Zero Hardware: One startup's experience with infrastructure-as-a-service shows how the numbers stack up for IaaS vs. internal IT.
- And much more!
SMB Whitepapers
- Building a Business-Ready Mobile Infrastructure
- Shared Storage for SMB Server Bundles
- No Compromise, Cost Effective, VMware Storage for the SMB
- Three unique technologies provide users with a truly modern storage experience
- Rethinking Backup and Recovery: Disk vs. Tape
- Server Room Solutions: How small to midsize IT businesses can make their IT budgets appear larger than they are
- Top Three Microsoft Exchange Concerns and EMC Solutions
