Evolve Your Cloud Vendor Management Program

Evolve Your Cloud Vendor Management Program Having an active and intentional vendor management program has always been important for a technology team. With the introduction of cloud, SaaS, laaS, and all the other flavors of “as a Service” offerings, this program has become even more critical. While the cloud offers significant benefits and provides a far more robust […]

Risk Reductions – The Cloud Benefit We Don’t Talk About

Risk Reductions – The Cloud Benefit We Don’t Talk About Most cloud decisions that I have been a part of in the past, or help clients with today, are typically dominated by budget, security, functionality, and adoption considerations. While these are all extremely important, risk reductions outside the security space often go unrecognized. These other […]

Improving Cloud Security Policies

Improving Cloud Security Policies Our Strategic Advisors find a consistent gap when reviewing our customers’ security policies: a lack of focus on cloud computing. Even in organizations with many traditional policy documents, there’s a lag in updating them for cloud technologies like Microsoft 365. Additionally, the gap widens when it comes to documenting the standard […]

The People Benefit of the Cloud: Retain Your Talent!

The People Benefit of the Cloud: Retain Your Talent! In recent posts, I have written about how the cloud benefitted my former organizations (in general and financially).  The most important asset I had as an IT leader, though, was our people.  Keeping them happy was paramount, and especially so in today’s technology job market.  Here, […]

An AEC CIO’s Paradigm Shift to the Cloud

An AEC CIO’s Paradigm Shift to the Cloud Reflecting on my 19-year career as CIO for a top Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) firm, it was sometime around 2015 where my mindset shifted to cloud first. Leading a technology organization in a growing and progressive AEC company, I recognized that numerous things had changed, and […]

The Cloud for Non-Profits

The Cloud for Non-Profits Tech for Social Impact Microsoft Tech for Social Impact (TSI) presented its vision for the Microsoft Cloud for Non-Profits March 30, 2021. It is designed as an affordable solution for non-profits that covers a broad range of needs common to non-profits. The Cloud for Non-Profits leverages the Non-Profit Common Data Model […]

What to Use When: Microsoft Cloud File Storage Services

What to Use When: Microsoft Cloud File Storage Services With Innovation Comes Choice (and Confusion!) There are several options to migrate data from on-premises file shares and hard drives. The Modern Practices for File Management in the Cloud are as Follows: Personal files, like those stored in someone’s H: (home) or hard drive, migrate to […]

The ROI of Cloud is Productivity, a CEO’s Perspective….

The big gain in adopting cloud-based services is certainly financial, but not always “directly” – I have a suspicion that as soon as I publish this, someone is going to say “Hey Mike, come on, you sell what you’re writing about, so how can we <insert skepticism here>?” While this may be true to some […]

Meraki – The Stethoscope of your Network

It’s cold and flu season – people all over the country are visiting their doctors for relief from sneezing, coughing, and sore throats. Imagine how they would react if their doctor asked them to run a 100 yard dash with a stopwatch, compared their results to national averages and then declared them healthy. Most patients […]