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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 | Leave a comment

 

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

 

Guest Post: Why Half of Our Company is Using Chromebooks Full-Time

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Allen Falcon

Originally posted by David Politis, CEO of BetterCloud.  BetterCloud offers FlashPanel, an integrated management and administrative tools for organizations using Google Apps. Cumulus Global recommends and includes Flash Panel with most Google Apps implementations. — Being a Gmail and Google … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Chromebooks, Chromebooks for Business, Cloud Computing, Google Apps | Leave a comment

 

Data Loss and Recovery Are Still a Growing Concern

Posted on February 15, 2013 by Allen Falcon

  With all of the industry focus on data loss and disaster recovery, you may be surprised at the state of affairs. 53% of businesses experienced data loss within the past 12 months; up from 31% in the prior year … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged backup, Cloud Computing, Data Loss Prevention, Google Apps, Reocvery | Leave a comment

 

Cloud Security Focus Shifts to Data Protection

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Allen Falcon

This blog post is the first in a series on Data Protection issues and practical solutions. When companies began moving to cloud computing solution, a great deal of time and anxiety was spent on security.  For most considering the move, … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Cloud Computing, Data Loss Prevention, Data Protection, security | Leave a comment

 

Microsoft’s Apology Says Volumes about Office 365 Outages

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Allen Falcon

  It should be no secret that Microsoft’s Office 365 service continues to experience the types and frequency of outages that plagued its predecessor cloud service, BPOS.  While the outages receive little press coverage (they are frequent enough that they … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Cloud Computing, Office 365, Outage | Leave a comment

 

CFO Research Report: The Business Value of Cloud Computing

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Allen Falcon

In May 2012, CFO Research conducted a survey among senior finance executives at large U.S. companies to examine their views on the business value of cloud computing, as well as their plans and priorities for adopting cloud-based systems in the … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Business value, CFO, CFO Research, Cloud Computing, Google, Google Apps, Report, White Paper | 1 Comment

 

Where is Your Cloud Bandwidth Bottleneck?

Posted on October 23, 2012 by Allen Falcon

When speaking with companies and schools about moving to cloud solutions like Google Apps and Google Cloud Storage, we are often asked about bandwidth demands.  Many organizations worry that their current Internet connections are not sufficient for cloud computing.  While … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Uncategorized | Tagged Bandwidth, Capacity, Cloud Computing, cloud storage, Google Apps, Performance | Leave a comment

 

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