A Way Out: Switching From Single Sign-On To Password Sync
If you’re using Office 365 with AD FS (Active Directory Federation Services) without high availability, this article could save you time, frustration and perhaps even your job. Single Sign On with AD...
View ArticleMoving Communications to the Cloud – A New Level of Collaboration
Resilience Remember when “work” meant that place you went to every day. Everything was there. Your desk. Your chair. Your computer. Your phone. Also the network servers you used with your...
View ArticleWhy Line-of-Business Applications are Better Served in the Cloud
With all the talk of “BYOD” (Bring Your Own Device) initiatives and mobile computing and tablets and smartphones and hybrid laptops you’d think that computing, especially cloud computing, was all...
View ArticleThe Case for the Superior Data Security of the Cloud
don’t trust the Cloud. My data is safer in my own server room. Odds would seem to be that you’d agree with this statement. It’s intuitive. If you take something that’s inside your premises and put...
View ArticleThe True Meaning of Cloud Agility
On October 26, 2012 Hurricane Sandy hit the northeastern United States. Even though it was classified as only a Category One storm, and then later as Category Two, the entire region was unprepared...
View ArticleMobility Considerations When Moving Communications to the Cloud
The answer is everything. The question is “what is really moving when you talk about ‘going mobile’?” The first thing most people think of when you talk about mobile computing is a smartphone or a...
View ArticleMicrosoft Refines Its Focus on The Cloud
In his FY 2012 annual letter to shareholders, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer first identified Microsoft as being a “devices & services” company, saying “This is a significant shift, both in...
View ArticlePersonal Cloud: Microsoft Expands User Cloud Storage Choices
For over 30 years we have referred to our computers as a “PC” that we may have forgotten that the acronym stands for “personal computer.” If we use personal computers, shouldn’t we also have personal...
View ArticleProactive vs. Reactive – The Difference Between Good & Great Managed Services
One of the great axioms of the service industry is that the difference between a great service company and a bad one is that the great service company knows its costs. A simple statement, yes, but with...
View ArticleYour Virtual IT Department
One of the big unreasonable fears expressed by Information Technology (IT) professionals in the early days of cloud computing was the question of how they could possibly manage servers that were...
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