Email to the Cloud

As we wrote a few weeks ago in “anarchy in the streets” – businesses are finding new reasons to move applications and services to the cloud, not just to protect themselves in cases of disaster (or riot) but frankly, because it’s easier.

In fact there is nothing much easier than moving your e-mail services to the cloud, firstly you have a wide choice of venders trying to tempt you with their services. Google, as ever are doing their best to tempt you away from more traditional sources with Google Apps which includes Gmail, but Microsoft quite frankly (and quite surprisingly as far as we’re concerned) has fought back with a very creditable offering in Office 365.

As with all things Microsoft it sometimes doesn’t do exactly what it says on the tin–for example the Office Web apps provide “lightweight editing” so not quite as good as your desktop application but for access to email, calendars and contacts, functionality is just about maintained and, with a whopping 25 GB per mailbox and the ability to access from anywhere you may say functionality has been improved upon.

Migration from your existing service to the cloud can be a challenge, but that’s why we can help, we can migrate all of your existing data from your existing service to office 365, ensuring dual operation of both services into your new services is fully up and running, making the transition a smooth and pain-free operation.

You’ll be happy with the costs too, with prices at around £4 per user or less, when set against ongoing license, maintenance and service fees the numbers stack up.

If you’d like to move to the cloud, call us London (0203) 369 6491 or Manchester (0161) 920 6491