The power of Platform as a Service lies in its ability to bolster profitability and productivity. Microsoft Azure’s PaaS and App Service offerings, in particular, give organizations a wealth of options that can help make enterprise IT more competitive. In an earlier blog, I explained the three P’s of PaaS: people, process and platform. In…
Cloud service offerings can feel abstract and confusing. Parsing the differences between Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) can make all the difference in understanding the best fit for your situation. Where IaaS ends and PaaS starts is not always clear cut. In my experience, by focusing on the three…
Let’s face it: Migrating to Microsoft Azure just isn’t as straightforward as switching from a local version of Office to Office 365. Managed well, cloud migrations can pay great dividends, but for small and midsize businesses, the move can be more than a little intimidating. Most IT organizations tackle the process by starting with infrastructure…
At the end of January, Amazon Web Services announced the preview of a new enterprise email service called Amazon WorkMail, designed to challenge the two largest enterprise messaging vendors: Microsoft and Google. Essentially, AWS is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) vendor that incorporated an application into an infrastructure portfolio. While not going into detail…
Being productive requires simple, effective and secure ways to collaborate. Email is no longer an effective way to share documents. Within email, every document attached is an unnecessary copy; therefore, it’s impossible to effectively track changes. For those on the receiving end, emailed documents lack appropriate methods of contributing and make it difficult later to…
There’s a problem with the technology that we’ve come to know as “cloud.” The cloud is not what you think it is. You see, every computer user assigns a definition to the technology they use and it doesn’t even have to be accurate. It’s WHAT IT IS…to the user. This can lead to confusion and…
