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Remove the Noise, Protect the Hours, Ship the Work
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
Tom Nault
Dec 36 min read


How Hudson Cloud Systems Moved Touro Dental from Citrix and VMware to Azure AVD Without Disrupting a Single Clinic Day
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
Behan Venter
Nov 174 min read


The Strategic Imperative of Operational Change Discipline in ITIL Frameworks
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
Behan Venter
Oct 282 min read


How We Brought Touro College of Dental Medicine's New Mexico School and Clinic Online in Record Time
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...
Behan Venter
Oct 92 min read


Modernizing Security and Infrastructure for a Global Media Organization
By Behan Venter, CTO, Hudson Cloud Systems Hudson Cloud Systems partnered with a major global media company to strengthen and modernize...
Behan Venter
Oct 91 min read


Securing the Street: Supporting Sesame Workshop's Mission
By Behan Venter, CTO, Hudson Cloud Systems Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, has spent more than fifty years educating...
Behan Venter
Oct 92 min read


Building the Foundation: Our First Major Healthcare Partnership
By Behan Venter, CTO, Hudson Cloud Systems When Hudson Cloud Systems was asked to take over IT for a large orthopedic practice, it marked...
Behan Venter
Oct 91 min read


How to Decommission a VMware Host from a Dell (EMC) VxRail vSAN Cluster After Migrating to Azure
By Behan Venter, CTO, Hudson Cloud Systems Migrating workloads to Azure is a major milestone, but what comes next is just as important....
Behan Venter
Oct 94 min read


Power Out, Systems On: How Cloud Resilience Kept Operations Running.
By Behan Venter, CTO, Hudson Cloud Systems When an emergency power shutdown at one of our customer's buildings required them to close...
Behan Venter
Oct 91 min read


Why Moving to the Cloud Matters
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...
Tom Nault
Oct 63 min read


Escape
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...
Tom Nault
Aug 283 min read


The Pancake Recipe — Why Our Product Just Works
By Behan Venter, CTO, Hudson Cloud Systems When Bluetooth first emerged from the Special Interest Group (SIG) as a new wireless standard,...
Behan Venter
Aug 71 min read


A History of the Future:
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...
Behan Venter
Aug 52 min read


How Hudson Cloud Systems Came to Be.
Thoughtfully built. Purposefully evolved. By Behan Venter, CTO, Hudson Cloud Systems At Hudson, everything starts with our customers. We...
Behan Venter
Aug 52 min read


CES and the Future
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...
Tom Nault
Jul 233 min read


The Day Lightning Struck
By Tom Nault, CEO, Hudson Cloud Systems When ChatGPT went live on November 30, 2022, we didn’t pay much attention until sometime that...
Tom Nault
Jul 113 min read


Why I Said Yes to Hudson Cloud Systems
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...
Tom Nault
Jul 112 min read


How We’re Using LLMs at Hudson Cloud Systems
By Tom Nault, CEO, Hudson Cloud Systems Right now, AI and large language models, LLMs like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and others are...
Tom Nault
Jul 13 min read
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