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By Tom Nault, CEO, Hudson Cloud I deleted two programs this week. More will follow. One was Calendly, a program that allowed people to schedule time with me on their own. Over time, I became overwhelmed by people who had no problem burning up my time trying to sell me something or to "pick my brain." I can’t afford to have it picked all the time. It was taking far more time to just politely say no than to not have it at all. Gone. The other was Reclaim.ai , a program intended

By Tom Nault, CEO, Hudson Cloud I’ve been attending CES for more than two decades, and almost every year a group from Hudson Cloud comes with me. This January we had 21 people in our group, including members of the Hudson Cloud team. In many ways it feels like a reunion. We’ve all come from different directions over the years, but CES is still where we end up sitting around comparing notes, challenging each other, and trying to understand where technology is actually going. O

By Tom Nault, CEO, Hudson Cloud Systems I’ve never liked meaningless company slogans. “Do what you love in the service of those who love what you do.” It’s a meaningless word pretzel. Another one: “The Quiet Company.” Okay. The series Silicon Valley made fun of meaningless corporate slogans and it was a running joke throughout the show. The whole “Making the World a Better Place” was later, “We’re making the world a better place… through scalable, distributed, cloud-optimized

By Behan Venter, CTO, Hudson Cloud Systems Touro College of Dental Medicine was one of our earliest full-scale digital dentistry builds. We designed their original virtual desktop platform back in 2016, long before cloud desktops were ready for heavy imaging and clinical workloads. That first build carried them for years. The recent move from Citrix and VMware to Azure Virtual Desktop is the next chapter in the story, and it turned into one of the smoothest migrations we have

By Behan Venter, CTO, Hudson Cloud Systems Foundations of ITIL   Within Information Technology Service Management (ITSM), the ITIL framework defines three foundational processes essential to maintaining operational stability: Incident Management, Problem Management, and Operational Change Discipline. Together, they establish a disciplined methodology for ensuring service reliability, reducing disruptions, and aligning IT operations with broader organizational objectives.   In

By Behan Venter, CTO, Hudson Cloud Systems When Touro College of Dental Medicine set out to open its new school and large clinic in New...

By Behan Venter, CTO, Hudson Cloud Systems Hudson Cloud Systems partnered with a major global media company to strengthen and modernize...

By Behan Venter, CTO, Hudson Cloud Systems Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, has spent more than fifty years educating...

By Behan Venter, CTO, Hudson Cloud Systems When Hudson Cloud Systems was asked to take over IT for a large orthopedic practice, it marked...

By Behan Venter, CTO, Hudson Cloud Systems Migrating workloads to Azure is a major milestone, but what comes next is just as important....

By Behan Venter, CTO, Hudson Cloud Systems When an emergency power shutdown at one of our customer's buildings required them to close...

By Tom Nault, CEO, Hudson Cloud Systems When ChatGPT showed up in late 2022, none of us thought it would grow this fast or get this...

What an Escape Room can do for you. By Tom Nault, CEO, Hudson Cloud Systems Photo by Marina Reich on Unsplash This is not the escape...

By Behan Venter, CTO, Hudson Cloud Systems When Bluetooth first emerged from the Special Interest Group (SIG) as a new wireless standard,...

How We Got Here By Behan Venter, CTO, Hudson Cloud Systems Our journey to the cloud didn't begin with Azure or AWS—it started decades...

Thoughtfully built. Purposefully evolved. By Behan Venter, CTO, Hudson Cloud Systems At Hudson, everything starts with our customers. We...

By Tom Nault, CEO, Hudson Cloud Systems I’m often asked: how do you stay so far ahead of technology trends? The answer is a bit...

By Tom Nault, CEO, Hudson Cloud Systems When ChatGPT went live on November 30, 2022, we didn’t pay much attention until sometime that...

By Tom Nault, CEO, Hudson Cloud Systems I’ve taken only four roles running companies I didn’t control since we sold Open Interface North...

By Tom Nault, CEO, Hudson Cloud Systems Right now, AI and large language models, LLMs like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and others are...