Which Is It: Fault Tolerance, High Availability, Business Continuity or...
If there are any four terms that are most often mistakenly used interchangeably, they are Fault-Tolerance, High Availability, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery. Cloud computing services can be...
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 ArticleKeeping Cloud Service Providers Honest – The Importance of Monitoring QoS
Are you getting what you paid for? When you subscribe to any cloud service you sign a Service Level Agreement (SLA) which specifies, among other things, the Quality of Service (QoS) you will receive...
View ArticleThe Impending End of Windows Server 2003 – Choices, Choices, Choices
You probably don’t think much about Windows Server, whichever version you’re running, until something goes wrong with it. Then you think about it a lot! Well, those days may be over if you make some...
View ArticleMake Microsoft Azure Your New Data Center
How’s this for an IT Manager’s nightmare? Your company today announced that it had acquired its largest competitor. Great news!!! You’ve just been informed that you need to double the capacity of...
View ArticleMFA – Great security enhancement or productivity buzz-kill?
We’re a little more than a month into turning on Office 365 Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for everyone at CloudStrategies. My aim here is to share some thoughts and observations around the...
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 ArticleCloud Combining – Migration by Workload
Extended support for Windows Server 2003 will be withdrawn on July 14, 2015. After that date there will be no more patches, updates, or security updates for that old version. If you’re still running...
View ArticleProtecting Office 365 and Microsoft Azure from Emerging Threats
Trust. It’s perhaps the main element in any decision you make regarding computer & communication services for your company and yourself. You need to feel you can trust your provider to keep your...
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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