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Moving to the Cloud: Too Many Choices?

Posted on June 10, 2013 by Allen Falcon

  This post is the ninth, and final, post in a series addressing concerns organizations may have that prevent them from moving the cloud-based solutions. Good News; Bad News. The Good News:  Organizations can choose from a rapidly growing myriad … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged choices, Cloud Computing, Cloud Solutions, Google Apps | Leave a comment

 

Moving to the Cloud: Internationalization

Posted on June 6, 2013 by Allen Falcon

  This post is the eighth in a series addressing concerns organizations may have that prevent them from moving the cloud-based solutions. Cloud computing is global and a growing number of cloud solution providers are global as well.  Data stored … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Cloud Computing, Cloud Solutions, Internationalization, Ownership, privacy, security | 1 Comment

 

Moving to the Cloud: Regulatory Compliance

Posted on June 4, 2013 by Allen Falcon

  This post is the seventh in a series addressing concerns organizations may have that prevent them from moving the cloud-based solutions. Moving to the cloud often entails more than switching to an email service or spinning up a some … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Cloud Computing, Cloud Solutions, HIPAA, PCI, Regulatory Compliance, Sarbanes/Oxley | 2 Comments

 

Moving to the Cloud: Integration with Legacy Systems

Posted on May 28, 2013 by Allen Falcon

  This post is the sixth in a series addressing concerns organizations may have that prevent them from moving the cloud-based solutions. Very few businesses go “all-in” when moving into the cloud.  Most businesses start their move into the cloud … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Cloud Computing, Integration, Legacy Applications, Migrating, Planning | 1 Comment

 

Google+ Hangouts and Google Apps: OFF for a Reason

Posted on May 24, 2013 by Allen Falcon

As Google prepares to replace Google Talk with Google+ Hangouts, customers expect to benefit from the improved audio/video quality and features that Hangouts offer over Talk. There are very good reasons why Google+ Hangouts are OFF by default in Google … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Google, Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Google Apps Vault, Google+ Hangouts, Hangouts, Vault | Leave a comment

 

Moving to the Cloud: Lock-In

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Allen Falcon

  This post is the fifth in a series addressing concerns organizations may have that prevent them from moving the cloud-based solutions. When looking at cloud solutions, most organizations spend a great deal of time, appropriately so, investigating how they … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Applications, Cloud Computing, Data, Lock-In, migration, Paas, SaaS | 1 Comment

 

Moving to the Cloud: Privacy

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Allen Falcon

  This post is the fourth in a series addressing concerns organizations may have that prevent them from moving the cloud-based solutions. Few topics related to cloud computing create more passion than privacy.  Knowing how well your organization’s information will … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Cloud Solutions, due-diligence, privacy, Privacy Policy, Service Level Agreement, SLA, Terms of Service | 4 Comments

 

Moving to the Cloud: Provider Reliability

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Allen Falcon

  This post is the third in a series addressing concerns organizations may have that prevent them from moving the cloud-based solutions. One of the challenges in planning a move to the cloud remains the relative youth of the current … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Availability, Cloud Computing, due-diligence, Performance, Reliability, Stability | 1 Comment

 

Moving to the Cloud: Cost Savings

Posted on May 14, 2013 by Allen Falcon

  This post is the second in a series addressing concerns organizations may have that prevent them from moving the cloud-based solutions. Will moving to the cloud save money? The answer is a definite, absolute … maybe! Whether or not … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Business value, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Collaboration, Communications, cost savings, Google Apps for Business, MS Exchange., Value | 2 Comments

 

Moving to the Cloud: Security

Posted on May 10, 2013 by Allen Falcon

  This post is the first in a series addressing concerns organizations may have that prevent them from moving the cloud-based solutions. At some point in the evaluation and decision process, the issue of security comes to the forefront as … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Cloud Computing, cloud security, objections, security | 1 Comment

 

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