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Office 365 Security & Privacy
The Office 365 Trust Centre has been developed to demonstrate Microsoft’s governing trust principles, and to prevent any concerns around data privacy and security with Cloud solutions. Office 365 is the first major business productivity public cloud service provider willing to sign EU Model Clauses with customers, which address the international transfer of data.
Windows Intune
Mobile employees. Remote workers. Laptops running different operating systems. How do you manage them all—and make sure users have the latest updates and malware protection? The fact is, your employees rely on you to keep their PCs running at their best. And Windows Intune can help.
NorthernStar team get into the Christmas spirit for charity.
The team at Northern Star entered the Christmas season with a bang by dressing up in Christmas Themed fancy dress in aid of one of our chosen charities Cancer Research.
Gleadell Agriculture adopt Microsoft Cloud over on premise server
In the five years that I have worked at Gleadell Agriculture Ltd the company has almost doubled in size and is continuing to grow. With this in mind, last year we started to look at how best to reorganise the IT strategy to cope with the growth and to enable flexibility in our options going forward.
Office365 Case study
Graham & Green’s IT Manager, Darek Szuminski talks about why he chose Microsoft Cloud services.
“I’ve migrated more than 40 mailboxes without losing more hair, which made me happy, I’ve made an £8K annual cost saving, which made my MD very happy; we still use Office apps and didn’t have to train anyone how to use the service”
Inside Microsoft’s Dublin Mega Data Centre
Microsoft’s new data centre in Dublin represents a milestone in data centre design. The new facility will power much of Microsoft’s global cloud computing operation, while using far less energy and water than typically consumed in other data centres of this scale. The Dublin centre operates at a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 1.25, Microsoft says, compared to averages of about 2.0 for the industry and 1.6 for other Microsoft facilities.
Office 365 vs Google Apps.
Microsoft's Office 365 has come out of beta.
Office 365 has four cloud-hosted components: Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and Office Web Apps, which you can use to access the other three from a browser. The addition of Dynamics CRM (Customer Relationship Management) is planned. Some editions include a subscription to Microsoft Office Professional Plus – a version of Microsoft's classic Office desktop clients – but whether or not it is included, the great majority of users will need Office installed locally.
Windows 8
Microsoft Windows president Steven Sinofsky's presents a sneak preview to Windows 8.
The OS looks very much like Windows Phone 7, with the live tiled screen and like Windows Phone 7 this OS is designed for touch.
Top Questions about Microsoft Office 365 for Existing BPOS Customers
Top Questions about Microsoft Office 365 for Existing Customers
With the impending launch of Microsoft Office 365 many customers have asked for more information on transitioning from Microsoft BPOS to Office 365.
Q. What is Office 365?
Microsoft Office 365 delivers the power of cloud productivity to businesses of all sizes, helping to save time, money and free up valued resources. Office 365 combines the familiar Office desktop suite with online versions of Microsoft’s next generation communications and collaboration services: Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Lync Online. With Office 365 we provide services that are easy to administer and simple to use – always backed up by robust security, reliability and control to run your business.
The Economics of the Cloud
There is no denying that the interest in the Cloud is intensifying. Being a leading provider of Cloud Services, we are often asked about the economics of moving into the cloud vs retaining on premise IT.
There are several types of cloud solutions evolving, Public, Private, single and multi-tenanted so an exact comparison is difficult and is normally undertaken on a case by case basis.
The comparison below is a customer of ours with 50 users. The Exchange 2003 server was over 3 years old, unreliable and out of warranty, so needed replacing. The Windows 2003 server was still in warranty and was used for file storage of 100 GB of data, which was backed up offsite using online backup.
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