Cloud Technology Articles

Your clients are looking for someone to trust with their valuable data. This is where a reliable Cloud Service Partner comes into play. Cloud backup and disaster recovery services are in big demand. Businesses today are looking for ways to secure their data, ensure accessibility, and the Cloud provides this. Below are some reasons why you should be selling cloud-based backup and disaster recovery services to your clients.

In this article, we’re going to examine how “the Cloud” can help your clients attract and retain superstar employees and keep their data secure when employees leave, especially the bad ones. We’ve all been there. You wake up one morning, and there’s an email sitting in your inbox from your best tech employee. Or you get ambushed by the star team member of your IT department when you walk in the front door…“I’m quitting; I got a better job somewhere else.” Staff members come and go. We hope to hold onto the great ones. But this is hard to do, especially in today’s economy where you have a better chance of striking oil than you do landing that superstar employee you can build your company on.

Are we in for sunny skies, or will an expected cold front bring in foggy skies that slow down cloud adoption? The growth of cloud computing for businesses over the last few years has been extraordinary and experts predict that the Cloud will grow even faster in the next few years. Is the forecast for the Cloud calling for fog or sunny skies? Will sunny skies prevail or will fog sock the Cloud in? Will security breaches slow down development or is it full steam ahead? We’re to going check out the forecast for cloud computing in this article.

Look around this great country of ours, and you’ll see that something shocking is happening right before our eyes; the death of an American icon. A symbol of American culture is dying off. What is this dying icon of American prosperity? Take a drive anywhere in this great country of ours. Something is changing right before our eyes. The death of the American shopping mall. What role does the Cloud play in this? It wasn’t that long ago that we packed up the family and made the trek to the local mall. Or we planned a family getaway to visit the “big city” to spend a weekend shopping at the mall. The US shopping mall, once a symbol of prosperity, is now closing down across the country at alarming rates.

As your organization grows and brings on more team members, wins more opportunities and surpasses revenue expectations…it’s time to get off that public cloud and move to a more secure, customizable private cloud service. We get told by MSPs all the time that their new clients can’t seem to grasp the difference between Private, Public and Hybrid Cloud Solutions. If you face this problem, here’s some information that you can share to help them understand what a Private Cloud is and why they need to use one. The other day I was driving in my car and heard the Rolling Stones’ song “Hey, You, Get Off Of My Cloud.” It got me thinking…What did Mick Jagger know about “The Cloud” back in the 60s and 70s?

OK, the Cloud is not Vegas, but I thought this had a nice ring to it. Recently, members of the Cloud Services For MSPs team traveled to meet with our peer group. We shared the importance of our peer group with other technology firms that meet each quarter to share insights into the IT market and how to improve our services. This month, Las Vegas was our destination.Cloud technology has impacted our communities and people’s lives on so many levels. A simple internet connection can go a long way.

Are you fanatical about your business? Today on IT Done Right, Jeanne DeWitt gets down and dirty about growing a fanatically successful business and shares what she’s learned over the years. We’ve been studying a great book from Jeb Blount called “Fanatical Prospecting.” It reveals how sales professionals can grow a healthy stream of new business by being fanatical about prospecting.  This book has opened our eyes to how fanatical businesses continue to grow year after year and why others remain stagnant.

Your clients trust you to provide the IT services and solutions they need. But when it comes to the Cloud, a lot of MSPs end up just sending their clients to a random cloud service provider (CSP) and leaving them on their own to decide on the best one. Does this make sense? You offer everything else they need concerning technology services. Shouldn’t you work with a CSP who will provide the customized and personalized services you want for your clients? If you do, they’ll see your MSP as so much more valuable than the one down the road. The cloud managed services market size is expected to reach $82.51 billion by 2025, according to a study conducted by Grand View Research, Inc. MSPs providing managed cloud services can benefit from enterprises adopting more cloud services.

What Happens In The Cloud…Stays In The Cloud! OK, the Cloud isn’t Vegas, but I thought this had a nice ring to it. More companies are moving to the Cloud, some business owners and managers are overly cautious. But, this caution is stopping them from gaining the benefits of cloud computing. For most businesses, the Cloud increases efficiencies, productivity, and saves them time and money.