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Building a cloud solution to meet your business needs

Software as a Service (SaaS) applications like Office 365 have become ubiquitous in the enterprise. Solutions like Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure offer a powerful platform to built IT solutions on. Our team is knowledgeable on multiple cloud platforms, and we’re here to help you tie it all together.

Cloud Strategy

Cloud technologies are being adopted at a rapid pace.

Our team has years of experience with SaaS solutions like Office 365, Cisco Webex, and more. We have migrated thousands of Microsoft Exchange mailboxes to the cloud—allowing teams to experience the latest and greatest in collaboration technology. These solutions provide a great user experience, but also free up IT administrators to spend less time on low level tasks, and more time working on the big picture.

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions can provide the same benefit to your servers and enterprise applications

We have partnered with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure to provide customized, cloud solutions for any size of business. By moving workloads to the cloud, large capital expenditures like servers and equipment can be reduced and transformed into a more manageable operational expenditure—that can shrink and grow on demand with changing business needs.

Even the traditional enterprise network is moving to the cloud! Partners like Cisco Meraki offer an easy to use, cloud-managed network solution for your entire business network. Security appliances, network switches, and wireless access points can be managed from the cloud—lessening the burden on IT staff to manage these parts of critical network infrastructure.

Network security solutions

As you build out a cloud strategy, it is important to consider security. Our team has experience with both traditional network security, as well as securing the cloud. We can help you move to the cloud without compromising your businesses credibility with security breaches.

Communicate via Webex Teams

More employees are being forced to work at home than ever before. Solutions like Webex Teams are here to provide chat, voice, and video—in a safe and secure manner with state-of-the-art encryption—all via the cloud.

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We have years of cumulative experience building simple to complex cloud solutions

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