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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 | Leave a 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 | Leave a comment

 

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 | Leave a comment

 

Microsoft to iOS and Android Users: “Never Mind.”

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Allen Falcon

  Are we really surprised?  In the flurry of Microsoft’s marketing blitz for Office 2013, Microsoft promised that the “new office” would be available across every platform.  That Mac, iOS, and Android users would not be left behind. Fast forward … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Android, Google, IOS, microsoft, MS Office, Quickoffice | Leave a comment

 

Quickoffice: More Than Office for Mobile Users

Posted on April 3, 2013 by Allen Falcon

    With this week’s release of Quickoffice for iPhone and Android platforms, Google Apps for Business mobile users can now access and edit MS Office files on any iOS or current Android device.  Word, Excel, and Powerpoint files are … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Android, Google Apps, Google Drive, IOS, MS Office, Quickoffice | Leave a comment

 

Web Weary? Malware May Be the Reason

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Allen Falcon

  This blog post is the third in a series on Data Protection issues and practical solutions. By some estimates, as many as 60% of search results are tainted with malware, attracting users to infected sites and putting your systems … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Data Loss Prevention, Data Protection, Malware, web filtering | Leave a comment

 

Incompetence 16; Microsoft 0

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Allen Falcon

  Last week, Microsoft’s new Outlook.com service suffered its second major outage since its launch earlier this year.  The most recent outage, a 16 hour fiasco impacting Outlook.com, Hotmail, and SkyDrive users, was due to an botched firmware update resulting … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Failure, microsoft, Outage | Leave a comment

 

Viral Spread of Cloud Creates New Challenges

Posted on March 13, 2013 by Allen Falcon

This blog post is the second in a series on Data Protection issues and practical solutions. As discussed in a recent TechRepublic Blog Post, cloud computing vendors are enabling the spread of on-demand software outside the control of the IT … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged CloudLock, Cloudlock Apps Firewall, Data Loss Prevention, Data Protection, Google Apps | Leave a comment

 

Microsoft Azure Fail! Will Customers Bail?

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Allen Falcon

  Once again, a flagship Microsoft cloud service blows through the Service Level Agreement like a blizzard through the Midwest.  Th February 22nd outage, impacting all Azure users worldwide, lasted more than 12 hours. The culprit:  Microsoft failed to purchase and … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Cloud, Failure, Microsoft Azure, Outage | 2 Comments

 

Cloud Backup/Recovery: The Same, Only Different

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Allen Falcon

This blog post is the second in a series on Data Protection issues and practical solutions. Backup and Restore, the most basic form of data protection, has been a standard IT practice since teams or Operators managed racks and rows … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged backup, Backupify, cloud backup, CloudLock, disaster recovery, Off-Site Backup, online backup | Leave a comment

 

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