What does UWITC Do?

Much like a web hosting company, we host applications and data centrally - deploying patches and upgrades to the application transparently, and delivering access to end users over the Internet through a browser or smart-client application. A variety of security mechanisms are used to keep sensitive data safe in transmission and storage. This is often called Software as a Service (SaaS) or Cloud Computing.

Cloud Computing and Software as a Service are buzz words that have lit the imaginations of the media and the entire computing industry for the last several years. Although the exact definition is open to debate, most would agree on a few fundamental principles. At its most fundamental level, we are speaking of software (or infrastructure, storage, or core services) deployed as a hosted and managed service that is accessed over the Internet (the Cloud) in a pay-for-what-you-use model (utility computing) the same way you would use electricity or water; that is, as a metered service in which you only pay for what you use.

By eliminating much of the upkeep, and using the economics of scale to combine and centralize customers' hardware and services requirements, we can offer solutions at a much lower cost than traditional vendors, not only in monetary terms, but also by greatly reducing the need for members to add complexity to their IT infrastructure.