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Latest Hosted Exchange PostsNeed to ensure up-time for your mission-critical communications and email technology? Go Cloud, Save the WorldFriday, October 14th, 2011
With more and more organizations opting to store their data on cloud computing systems rather than under their own roofs, outsourcing data centres are springing up like mushrooms to answer the demand. (more…) 
There’s Safety in the Cloud After AllFriday, October 7th, 2011It’s not unheard of, the idea of people embracing the very thing that once sent them into spirited flight. Consider the broccoli example. Consider, too, the very prickly subject of cloud security, heretofore much maligned for its apparently inherently contained contradiction but, in a recent show of enlightenment, perhaps rewritten as saviour rather than villain. Big Picture Author In this Wall Street Journal article, a big-picture pundit introduces the extraordinary idea that the cloud may in fact be the safest place to store our data, the deafening cries that have long argued the opposite notwithstanding. (more…)
10 Things You Need to Know About PSOs, PSAs and CRMsWednesday, September 28th, 2011 10 Things you need to know about PSOs 1. The global PSA software market will hit a staggering $7.63 billion by the year 2017, according to new research from Global Industry Analysts, Inc. The news is surprising, considering the hit this market took during the recent global economic dip, as those companies purchasing such products opted to hold back their purse in infrastructure-enhancing purchases. 2. The tide is turning on this front in a significant way. Indeed, PSA software suites are increasingly emerging as bona-fide recession-proofers for corporate IT department principals inside professional services organizations anxious not to suffer the same shortfalls again. (more…)
Cloud Standards 101Monday, September 12th, 2011 Are a new set of cloud standards starting to form? So it is with the developing shape of cloud computing. Definition is starting to emerge in the skies with the establishment of a set of standards seeking to best facilitate its adoption. Will they eliminate the confusion that currently shrouds the stuff? It’s a subject that’s scored a whack of attention from folks anxious to corral usability within manageable parameters. We take a look at some of the organizations trying to set the tone for this game changer. (more…)
But Who Owns my Stuff? The Dropbox ExampleWednesday, August 31st, 2011 Will the Dropbox privacy storm abate? The storm began not in a teacup, but in a Dropbox, and it was a doozy. The Web-based file-hosting service that allows users to share files and photos across the Internet courtesy of cloud computing is still sweeping up from a summer squall that was set off with nothing more spectacular than some poorly chosen words. Dropbox set the leaves in motion in June when it sought to tweak its terms of service to better explain its position on a range of platforms, including the thorny business of its ownership of the data it hosts. But its reworked explanation just served to muddy the scene, arguably further damaging cloud computing technology’s more widespread adoption. (more…)
The Economics of the Cloud – Leaving the Horse Whip BehindThursday, August 25th, 2011 Predicting the effects of new technology can be a challenge Although it’s still early days, from a long-range historical point of view, the cloud has actually hovered above our various computer-powered preoccupations for a good few years now. Adoption rates for this game-changer motor ever forward, with bugs being identified and addressed, and capabilities being increasingly celebrated. But it’s worth noting that we remain far from an end point in our understanding of, and appreciation for, this paradigm-shifting newcomer to our daily lives. The Microsoft-produced white paper, The Economics of the Cloud (TK), offers some insight on how this new age might evolve, and urges its proponents to take the long view and see the underlying economics as having the biggest impact on long term take-up rates. (more…)
Go Cloud, Save the WorldMonday, November 22nd, 2010
A Tale of Two Years (part one)Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
I’m not looking to ride the ink trails of Charles Dickens here, but it’s awfully hard to resist when he laid down so apt an all-purpose summary of a year. Because it is always the best of times—and the worst. A little of this, a little of that. Some highs, some lows. One day you’re an American journalist getting an escort from North Korea by Bill Clinton, the next you’re Taylor Swift and your stage is being stormed by Kanye. Certainly if you were Miss California or Roman Polanski in 2009, you’ve had better revolutions through the lunar cycle. But if you were Susan Boyle or the guy who won that dream job on that Pacific Island, well, you had yourself a bit of a party over the last 12 months, didn’t you? As for us here at 360 and our journey through the latest calendar pages, we feel confident laying claim to Dickens’ more positive category of assessment. Prominent among those best-of times was our growth. In spite of the so-called “recession,” we managed to pass another year in expansion mode. (more…)
Hosted Exchange: Home TruthsMonday, November 30th, 2009
Admittedly, Managed Services is tricky business. (more…)
7 Roads to Increase Business EfficiencyTuesday, September 15th, 2009
1) Employ technology at every turn.Everything from purchasing to bookkeeping to environmental stewardship at a company can find betterment through automation—and it ain’t bad for the environment, either. If it’s possible to perform a task smarter and faster by computerizing it, go for it. (more…)
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According to clean tech market research and consulting firm Pike Research, the delirious reassignment of corporations’ computing operations from in-house equipment to the cloud could well prove a boon to more than just the bottom line of the business in question.
You’ve repainted the place in non-VOC shades. You’ve introduced a composting program to the staff mess. You’ve gone as paperless as you can in a paper-loving world. 
I’ve read reports saying that most small businesses operate with substandard e-mail systems that are absent lots of technology’s snazziest features and that don’t accommodate for their employees’ need for shared content. Considering the level of sophistication the latest systems possess, and the glut of providers willing to host them on behalf of others, this surprises me.
No matter the prevailing economic environment—swell or depleted—the time is always right to explore ideas for making your business more efficient. Setting about to optimize your operational efficiency improves productivity, reduces costs, betters customer satisfaction, increases profitability and generally makes you look like you know what you’re doing.