07Mar2016
03Mar2016
My Top 5 Favorite Microsoft Cloud Solutions for the SMB
1. Office 365 (Even if you thought "I already use it") Office 365 is, to put it quite bluntly, the new gold standard in productivity at every level of the Enterprise. In the SMB space especially, this is so much the case that I cannot emphasize it strongly enough. If you aren't already using...
29Feb2016
Why we tend to focus on IaaS Solutions
IaaS is an area of extreme interest to SMB customers, probably because it is the easiest way for them to translate what they are accustomed to working with (e.g. on-premises servers) into a cloud-based equivalent. In other words, for better or worse, we are in the habit of thinking about our applications and...
25Feb2016
What is the Azure Cloud?
It would be quite literally impossible to list all of the Azure-based products and their corresponding feature sets, since the list would be out of date as soon as I hit "Publish." Microsoft is constantly releasing new features into Azure everyday--some are all new products, while others build on existing ones....
22Feb2016
Azure Virtual Machines: Were you aware of the MAJOR caveat to their SLA?
I think this is important to many Azure customers, but very few seem to be aware of it. So, I decided to record this caveat into a blog post, for future ease of reference. Most people think of the cloud as a great way to provide up-time to applications without a large investment...
11Feb2016
Microsoft Intune vs. MDM for Office 365
I have previously written about configuring Mobile Device Management for Office 365. The Office 365 Admin Center has a great subset of features lifted from Microsoft's cloud-based Intune service, which is admittedly a much more "full-blown" MDM solution. Whether you are using MDM for Office 365 or Microsoft Intune, the enrollment process works basically the...
18Jan2016
Certification vs. Qualification
I hold several certifications in my field of expertise: a number of Microsoft certifications, as well as Cisco, WatchGuard, IBM and other technologies. Before all of that happened, I also earned my bachelor’s in mathematics and philosophy from University, as well as a shiny Master’s degree from a private college. My...
11Jan2016