Cloud Computing Trends Earlier this month, CRN published a story covering Flexera’s 2023 State of the Cloud Report. Flexera provides software and systems to manage enterprise private and public clouds. The report on cloud computing trends originates with an annual survey of 750 technology leaders across sectors, geographies, and size of the business. While the […]
As we proceed into 2023, we begin receiving reports and analysis of 2022, the year that was. Now is a time when we gather data and perspectives on the past year. This new information helps guide us to better decisions in the year ahead. With respect to Cyber Attacks, the information is definitely both positive […]
The vast majority of small and midsize businesses (SMBs) understand — or have learned the hard way — that the ability to recover lost or damaged data is critical to your IT services and business resiliency. You need to be able to recover and restore files, databases, servers, and workstations from loss due to disasters, […]
What is a Third Party Data Breach? A third party data breach occurs when an individual’s login identity and/or personally identifiable information (PII) has been disclosed by a third party system or service. A third party system or service is one that is unrelated to your business. Third party data breaches are a security risk […]
Company Celebrates 5th Consecutive Year of Recognition as an Industry Leader For the fifth consecutive year, Cumulus Global proudly shares that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company®, has named Cumulus Global to its Managed Service Provider (MSP) 500 list in the Pioneer 250 category for 2022. CRN’s annual MSP 500 list identifies leading North […]
On February 11, 2023, Google provided sixty (60) days notice of a Google Workspace fee increase across most licenses. For many customers, this increase is coming immediately after increased fees related to the transition from G Suite to Google Workspace. The Google Workspace Fee Increase in Summary The Google Workspace fee increase primarily impacts subscriptions […]
Share your answers to our 3 Questions and, in exchange, we will Schedule time (no cost / no obligation) with one of our Cloud Advisors to discuss why the questions are important and to review your answers Provide our Rapid Security Assessment at no cost to you. 3 Questions about Cyber Security: 1) How do you […]
On December 2, 2022, a ransomware attack on Rackspace disrupted email services for thousands of businesses. The attack encrypted files throughout Rackspace’s Hosted Exchange environment, one of the largest in the world. The outage impacts mostly small and midsize businesses (SMBs). While Hosted Exchange is only 1% of Rackspace revenue, the incident was large enough […]
Service Update: Microsoft 365 Fees Increase on January 1, 2023. As previously announced by Microsoft, Microsoft 365 Fees Increase on January 1, 2023. In addition to increased fees for specific licenses, Microsoft is changing the structure of annual agreements and adding a 20% surcharge for month-to-month licensing. Why Now? Microsoft has been working towards these […]
Service Update: Archived User License Fees Begin on January 23, 2023. As previously announced by Google and covered in our blog, Google has discontinued the Vault Former Employee (VFE) service. All Google Workspace customers had there VFE licenses converted to a trial of the Archived User License (AUL) service. The free trial of the AUL […]
