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• Cloud Security Best Practices for Business

  Greg Pierce | Jan 24, 2013

  Cloud Security Best Practices and Lessons for Business Part #1 Having cloud security best practices in place is critical in order to prevent major data disasters from happening in business. Speaking of security in the cloud and regardless of one’s position on the existence or fallacy of global warming, this fact remains undisputed: storms have increased both in frequency and strength over the past several ...
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• Why I’m excited about Concerto at Convergence 2012

  Greg Pierce | Mar 16, 2012

  I can’t wait to get to Convergence 2012 in Houston and talk to attendees about Microsoft Dynamics in the cloud. At last year’s Convergence, I was surprised to see how the Concerto Cloud Services strategy was “let’s do this now” but many other partners’ strategies were “we’ll wait and see.” How far ahead will we be compared to partners that chose not to invest in ...
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• Cloud Computing Reliability

  Greg Pierce | Jun 14, 2011

  How Reliable is Cloud Computing? The recent downtime experienced by Amazon E3 and Microsoft BPOS has created quite a buzz about the stability of cloud computing. Lauren Carlson even wrote an article about the reliability of cloud computing. I think we should all expect to see bumps along the way – it’s a natural part of the cloud computing process. This downtime article on ...
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• You Down with BCC?

  Greg Pierce | Jun 13, 2011

  Have you ever sent an e-mail BCC? So… a reference to an early 90’s song (“OPP”, Naughty By Nature) may at first appear to be a bit abstruse. However, the main concept is the same. The original song is about, well – getting caught cheating, and BCC can lead to the same embarrassment. In this wonderful Cloud world of distributed workforce, we sometimes send a ...
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• Convergence 2011

  Greg Pierce | Apr 12, 2011

  I initially thought that Convergence 2011 would be extremely "cloud heavy." Though there is a definite cloud slant and hype at Convergence this year, there also seems to be an overriding confusion from the partner community on how to embrace it - most, it seems, are choosing to "wait and see" and decide what their cloud strategy will be - they'll be late to the ...
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