Coffee & Clouds Minicasts
These short webcasts provide a quick hit of critical information for SMBs and others looking to select the best cloud solution and strategy. As a thank you for joining us, we’ll send you a Dunkin’ or Starbucks gift card.
3T@3 Webcasts
On the 3rd Tuesday of every month at 3:00 pm ET (3T@3), we host an informative webcast covering cloud computing issues, ideas, and innovations relevant to small and mid-size businesses.
3T@3 Webcast Series
Manage Workspace for AI Governance and Security
(07/21/26) - Over 50% of AI initiatives falter and fail. Poor access controls and security leaves you open to data leaks and serious legal and financial liability. And these risks are not limited to stand-alone AI tools and services. Effective Google Workspace management ensures effective AI security and governance for embedded and integrated Gemini AI services.
Finish Your Move to the Cloud
(06/16/26) - Remote access to local systems creates complexity and challenges that can distract you from running your business. Completing the move of your shared files and applications to the cloud improves your team’s productivity, security, and affordability.
IT Budget Workshop
(05/19/26) - Without a budget, how we evaluate IT spending and investments changes. Beyond managing finances, your IT Budget helps you make better IT decisions that align with your business goals, needs, and priorities. Use our IT Budget Workbook Template to quickly create an effective IT budget
Pick, Mix, or Match: Google Workspace and Microsoft 365
(04/12/26) - Your needs, and how your business runs, changes over time. Your Productivity Suite should meet your needs and priorities for productivity, security, and affordability. Now may be the time to assess whether to use Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, or a mix of both.
What to Do When It Happens
(03/17/26) - How you initially respond to a cybersecurity incident will affect your ability to recover, your cyber insurance coverage, your customer relationships, your legal and financial liability, and possibly your survival.
6 Decisions for Productive, Secure, Affordable AI
(02/17/26) - Allowing AI to happen through individual experimentation and unstructured projects creates security risks, leads to unpredictable costs, and increases your chance of failure. If you want AI to be an effective tool for your business, you need to actively lead and manage your AI efforts.
3 Metrics to Guide Your IT Decisions
(1/27/25) - In an uncertain economy, making the best IT decisions becomes more critical to your business. Your IT investment and spending needs to support your business objectives and deliver real results. The process, however, need not be complicated. Use Productivity, Security, and Affordability as three key metrics to guide your IT decisions.
IT Strategy & Planning: Where You Want IT to Be in 2026
(12/16/25) - With significant changes to our productivity tools, the Artificial Intelligence explosion, and increasing expectations for security and compliance, how are your IT strategy and planning adapting for the coming year? Let productivity, security, and affordability drive your IT strategy and plans for 2026.
How To: Better AI Results
(11/18/25) - If what you put into AI is not clear, what you get out will lack clarity. If your use case - your “why” for using AI - is not clear, you will not get the outcomes you want. AI is most effective when you define meaningful use cases and use well-designed prompts.
Don’t Do IT Alone
(10/21/25) - Sole practitioners and solopreneurs make up about 80% of all small businesses. At the same time, fewer than 10% of IT service providers want sole practitioners, solopreneurs, and other very small businesses as clients. Picking the right suite of IT solutions, and finding the right IT service provider is essential for your productivity, security, and budget.
Is Your AI OK?
(09/15/25) - AI is here. Your business is using AI – officially or not. And with AI comes “AI Data Leaks.” AI has the power to do good and to do damage. Managing your AI services, and security, is the best way to ensure your AI is OK.
Make IT Decisions with Confidence
(08/19/25) - As small business owners and leaders, we struggle to make IT decisions. We may trust our advisors, our sources of information and guidance, but is that enough? In order to make IT decisions with confidence, we need to trust ourselves. If not, we struggle with analysis paralysis amid overwhelming information and options.
Better IT for SMBs
(06/17/25) - Most IT firms serving small and midsize businesses target companies with more than 20 employees. As a smaller business, your IT needs differ. You want and deserve secure, productive, and affordable IT. This 3T@3 Series event recording dives into how sole practitioners and very small businesses can and should get the productive, secure, and affordable IT solutions and services you need.
Secure Your Data for Gemini AI
(05/20/25) - Take steps to ensure that Gemini and other AI tools will not expose sensitive information internally or externally. In this 3T@3 Series online event, Cumulus Global CEO Allen Falcon is joined by Paul Lees, CEO of Bespin labs to discuss the importance of data governance and security with gen AI in Google Workspace.
Pick the Right Service Plan
(04/15/25) - Management, administration, training, and support determine how much value you get from your IT services and systems. In this live 3T@3 Series online event, Cumulus Global CEO Allen Falcon discusses how to select the right service plan and managed cloud services for your business.
Managed Cloud Services Update
(03/18/25) - Cumulus Global is updating our Managed Cloud Services to expand protections against cyber attacks. Cybersecurity Enhancements Add Value to your Managed Cloud Services. Changes to our traditional Service Plans give you even more options.
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for SMBs
(02/18/25) - If your business must comply with government or industry regulations covering disclosure of protected information, Data Loss Prevention (DLP) can be complex and expensive. This session coves affordable, effective DLP solutions for small and midsize businesses, like yours.
Your 2025 IT Checklist
(01/21/25) - 2025 will be a year of change. Expect new economic, political, business, and technology opportunities and challenges. Smart IT spending requires upfront planning. A 2025 IT Checklist for creates a roadmap for cost-effective IT decisions that yield better results.
A Techy Look at 2025
(12/17/24) - Technology, the economy, and governmental policies will each impact our businesses in separate and intertwining ways. Consider these 5 technology related Issues as you make your 2025 plans
IT Safety for Sole Practitioners, Startups, and Smaller Businesses
(11/19/24) - Your computer, and your IT services, are your business lifeline. Manage, protect, and secure them to protect your business. Here are affordable solutions to protect you and your business.
Google Gemini Quick Start
(10/15/24) - The value of Google Gemini depends on how well you are able to use it. This Gemini Quick Start gives you an overview of your options, shares more than 11 ways you can use Gemini, and covers Gemini's limitations.
Cybersecurity: Enough is Enough
(9/24/24) - Beyond industry and regulatory requirements, your cybersecurity should match your business's risks, needs, and budget .. and nothing more. This event focuses on affordably scaling your cybersecurity.
Check Your IT Blind Spots
(7/23/24) - Blind Spots evolve when we fail to reassess decisions as technology, business, and other factors change over time. Checking your IT Blind Spots will identify opportunities for savings, security, and improvements.
Small Business Compliance Primer
(6/18/24) - For many of us, ensuring we have the right security and compliance program in place remains a challenge. A basic understanding of security and compliance will inform and guide your security priorities, plans, investment, and results.
Gen AI Prompts and Privacy
(05/21/24) - Gen AI tools can boost your productivity or waste your time. The better your Gen AI prompts, the more effective and efficient Gen AI will be for you. The session provides and demonstrates a model for effective prompt-building.
Rethinking Google and Microsoft
(04/30/24) - As both suites evolve, and your business changes, is your choice still the best match for your business? Assessing whether Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace is the best fit for your business needs should either trigger a change or improve how you use your current services.
Be Prepared for New Cybersecurity Requirements
(03/26/24) - Increased governmental and industry regulations, a maturing cybersecurity industry, and supply chain best-practices are driving requirements for advanced security services and business continuity solutions.
Using VDI to Improve Hybrid Work
(02/27/24) - Supporting hybrid workers comes with additional security, BYOD, access, performance, and budget challenges. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) & remote desktop services improve security, access, and performance without damaging your budget.
Select Your Managed Cloud Services
(01/16/24) - The right managed cloud services can significantly impact your team’s productivity. You can ensure your systems are secure, you team is productive, and that you are protected against cyber attacks and other disruptions. Just as important, you can protect your budget.
Your 2024 IT Action Plan
(12/19/2023) - When planning for the upcoming year, we often forget to consider the role our technology and services can play in supporting our business goals and objectives. Align your IT plans to best support your business goals.
SaaSOps: What, Why, How
(11/21/2023) - Even small and midsize businesses like yours are using multiple cloud and IT services. More than Google Workspace or Microsoft 365, your cloud portfolio likely includes applications and services for accounting, customer relationship management, marketing, and security. Automating common admin and management tasks saves time and money, and improves security.
Choose the Right Managed Cloud Services
(10/17/2023) - Business leaders like you understand the need for effective, secure, and affordable IT services. Hiring or contracting for services has likely been unaffordable. Managed Cloud Services, when properly matched to your business, provide the capabilities, security, and services you need at affordable rates. Hear from experts about defining needs and selecting the right services, technologies, and partners.
Deep Dive: Lift-and-Shift and DaaS
(07/18/2023) - As SMBs, we still have on-premise file and application servers that require upgrades, security, backup, monitoring, management, and support. Evaluating your on-premise IT, and moving what you can to the cloud, increases the business value of your IT spending and investments.
Five Things Your IT Provider Should be Telling You
(06/20/2023) - We tend to wait for our IT service providers to raise warning flags, and the periodic review with our IT provider can feel like a subtle sales call. Reacting to IT problems is not enough, and adding more IT services may not be the answer.
The High Cost of Low Adoption
(05/23/2023) - Beyond core features in Google Workspace and Microsoft 365, cloud adoption tends to be fairly low. Better cloud adoption improves productivity, communication, and security. And, it can save you money.
Cloud Cover: Strategies for Small Businesses
(04/18/2023) - As small businesses, we can do more with the cloud then Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. But if we want to take advantage of the benefits of managed cloud services, we need better cloud strategies.
Cyber Security: 3 Questions and Shared Responsibility
(03/21/2023) - The cloud's Shared Responsibility Model places most of the security and data protection burden on you. Our webcast explores 3 key questions and the shared responsibility model to help you plan, deploy, and manage effective, and cost-effective, security..
Hybrid IT for SMBs
(02/21/2023) - A sound Hybrid IT strategy creates better collaboration, cost efficiencies, security, and resiliency. Review your hybrid business strategy and supporting IT services. Address your business, technology, security, and cost challenges.
Security CPR®
(01/24/2022) - Cybersecurity requires policies, procedures, supporting technologies, and a culture of awareness. This webcast is a deep dive into our Security CPR® model for preventing and surviving cyber attacks.
2022 Wrap Up
(01/03/2022) - Hopefully our plans for the new year are nearly complete and we will jump into January ready to execute and succeed. It is a great time of year to review and look forward to the new year. Let’s close out the year with new ideas and information.
Lower the Price of Productivity
(11/15/2022) - Our IT solutions serve a purpose: to help us operate our businesses as efficiently and effectively as possible. Are you paying for duplicate IT services? Reviewing and streamlining IT services supports productivity at a lower price.
Cloud Cover – Manage IT All
(9/20/2022) - The right IT management and services add value and save money. Learn IT management strategies for small and midsize businesses that can better match current and evolving business needs and priorities.
Cloud Cover – Hybrid Work
(8/16/2022) - Successful businesses will adapt to changing expectations. You can, affordably, adapt your IT to hybrid work while improving security and resilience. This webcast covers the IT strategies and solutions to help you adjust your IT services to better support hybrid work.
Get IT Ready for Recession
(7/19/2022) - Cutting IT costs can help your bottom line in the near-term, but may do more harm than good. Smart IT planning helps your business survive and thrive through a recession and beyond.
A Cyber Insurance Primer
(6/21/2022) - With the increase in cyber attacks, cyber insurance is a necessity. All too often, however, businesses learn that the process is significantly more complicated. Cyber Insurance is a tool, not a solution.
Streamlining Security
(5/17/2022) - While small businesses are more vulnerable and more frequent targets of cyber attacks, constant fear-mongering and hype does not help. Sound business practices, not fear, should be your motivation to protect against cyber attacks.
Spring Cleaning Your Files
(4/19/2022) - With an understanding of personal file services – OneDrive and My Drive – and domain file services – Shared Drives and Sharepoint, businesses can build a file service that organizes and protects files in ways that make them easier to find, share, and use.
Beyond Backup
(3/15/2022) - Map out how restore, recovery, and continuity solutions offer different value propositions for you and your business. Assess total cost and impact when selecting your solution.
Peak Productivity
(2/22/2022) - We all have our jobs to do. We want to do well. We want to succeed. We want and need peak productivity. While “hacks” are trendy, productivity is boosted when we understand how to best use the tools we have.
Keep IT Simple
(1/25/2022) - Solid IT services are critical to your success, but they consume your time and budget. Using managed services ensures you have effective and affordable services and frees up time and money to focus on your core business activities.
2022 is Here; What’s Next?
(12/14/2021) - COVID-19 triggered fundamental changes in the economy, markets, and society that alter the way we need to operate our businesses and work as individuals. Explore ways small and midsize businesses can better leverage technologies and resources to respond to these challenges.
Four Cornerstones for Cloud Security
(11/16/2021) - Four security cornerstones create a solid foundation for your cloud security. Assess your security footprint; Identify security gaps; Prioritize changes and security services.
Cloud File Services
(10/19/2021) - Moving to a managed cloud file service can improve access, productivity, and resilience without sacrificing security and budget.
Manage Cloud Services Primer
(9/21/2021) - Managed Cloud Services differ from traditional managed and “break-fix” services. Explore how, beyond cost savings, Manage Cloud Services offer strategic security, services, and business advantages.
Email Security and Reliability
(8/17/2021) - A deep dive look at email security and reliability, with a focus on how DMARC prevents business email compromises, spoofing, and phishing attacks. In addition to protecting you from inbound attacks, DMARC protects your domain’s reputation and helps ensure reliable email deliverability.
Email Security and Compliance
(7/20/2021) - An updated look at email security and compliance. Summarizing risks and trends, we dive into a tiered approach to ensuring your business, data, employees, and reputation are protected. We also discuss emerging compliance requirements and steps you can take to ensure you operate within regulatory, industry, and policy expectations.
Small Business Guide to Cyber Threats, Security, and Response
(6/15/2021) - A practical guide to cyber threats and security. We will share data that quantifies the most prevalent types of risks and will outline practical, reasonable, and affordable steps you can take to both protect your business and, should an attack succeed, respond and recover.
Productivity Suites: Google and Microsoft Revisited
(5/18/2021) - Take a fresh look at Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 and how each might best serve your business. Rather than a feature-by-feature comparison, we take a strategic look at positioning, architecture, services, subscription options, and integrations.
Next Normal: WFH and Remote
(4/20/2021) - We explore how Work From Home and remote workers alters your IT service needs. Taking a holistic view, we look beyond using apps and accessing files, discussing factors that protect your business and support productivity
Next Normal: Apps & Servers
(3/16/2021) - COVID-19 and the events of the past 10 months have, and continue, to change the way we run our businesses. Explore how your team accesses the applications, systems, and data they need to succeed, whether in the office or working remotely.
Next Normal: IT Efficiency
(02/23/2021) - COVID-19 and the events of the past 10 months have, and continue, to change the way we run our businesses. Are the IT choices made during the crisis the best for your business in the long term?
Risk and Reward: Cyber Threats and Insurance
(01/19/2021) -In addition to an overview of the risks and liabilities of cyber attacks and data breaches, the team will discuss the role of Cyber Insurance in your protection and recovery strategy.
Work from Home Action Plan
(12/15/2020) -The fundamental shift to remote work, work from home, and hybrid work models creates new requirements for technology and services.
Google Workspace Action Plan
(11/17/2020) - Now is the time to understand your options and decide how and when you want to move. Get an overview of the new range of Google Workspace subscriptions and your migration paths and options.
Lift and Shift – Your Next Cloud Move
(10/20/2020) - Now is the time to explore Lift and Shift as your Next Move in the Cloud.. Understand the process, user access, security, operations, and cost.
Getting Back to What Comes Next
(09/15/2020) - We cannot wait for things to return to the way they were before. Nor should we expect they will. Now may be the time to step back, assess, and streamline your IT services for remote and hybrid operations.
Pandemics, Politics, and Planning for What’s Next
(07/21/2020) - Our decisions impact our businesses, customers, employees, and communities. Explore the many factors creating challenges and how we, as leaders within our organizations, can drive adaptation to meet these challenges and achieve our goals and objectives.
Protect with Tech
(06/16/2020) - We expect remote and at-home work, cloud computing, and team collaboration to be part of our business operations and technology strategies. As such, we need to ensure we protect our business, data, and people.
COVID-19 Response & Recovery
(05/19/2020) - A comprehensive Recovery Road Map will help ensure your business' survival. Current changes to the business climate. Ways in which we can help our businesses survive and thrive. Targeted cloud solutions that can help you achieve your business goals. .Drafting your Recovery Road Map.
Succeeding in our “Now” Normal
(04/21/2020) - This is not our "new" normal, since it will end at sometime in the future. It is, however, our "now" normal. We will present the data, share issues, and discuss solutions.
Manage Workspace for AI Governance and Security
(07/21/26) - Over 50% of AI initiatives falter and fail. Poor access controls and security leaves you open to data leaks and serious legal and financial liability. And these risks are not limited to stand-alone AI tools and services. Effective Google Workspace management ensures effective AI security and governance for embedded and integrated Gemini AI services.
Finish Your Move to the Cloud
(06/16/26) - Remote access to local systems creates complexity and challenges that can distract you from running your business. Completing the move of your shared files and applications to the cloud improves your team’s productivity, security, and affordability.
IT Budget Workshop
(05/19/26) - Without a budget, how we evaluate IT spending and investments changes. Beyond managing finances, your IT Budget helps you make better IT decisions that align with your business goals, needs, and priorities. Use our IT Budget Workbook Template to quickly create an effective IT budget
Pick, Mix, or Match: Google Workspace and Microsoft 365
(04/12/26) - Your needs, and how your business runs, changes over time. Your Productivity Suite should meet your needs and priorities for productivity, security, and affordability. Now may be the time to assess whether to use Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, or a mix of both.
What to Do When It Happens
(03/17/26) - How you initially respond to a cybersecurity incident will affect your ability to recover, your cyber insurance coverage, your customer relationships, your legal and financial liability, and possibly your survival.
6 Decisions for Productive, Secure, Affordable AI
(02/17/26) - Allowing AI to happen through individual experimentation and unstructured projects creates security risks, leads to unpredictable costs, and increases your chance of failure. If you want AI to be an effective tool for your business, you need to actively lead and manage your AI efforts.
3 Metrics to Guide Your IT Decisions
(1/27/25) - In an uncertain economy, making the best IT decisions becomes more critical to your business. Your IT investment and spending needs to support your business objectives and deliver real results. The process, however, need not be complicated. Use Productivity, Security, and Affordability as three key metrics to guide your IT decisions.
IT Strategy & Planning: Where You Want IT to Be in 2026
(12/16/25) - With significant changes to our productivity tools, the Artificial Intelligence explosion, and increasing expectations for security and compliance, how are your IT strategy and planning adapting for the coming year? Let productivity, security, and affordability drive your IT strategy and plans for 2026.
How To: Better AI Results
(11/18/25) - If what you put into AI is not clear, what you get out will lack clarity. If your use case - your “why” for using AI - is not clear, you will not get the outcomes you want. AI is most effective when you define meaningful use cases and use well-designed prompts.
Don’t Do IT Alone
(10/21/25) - Sole practitioners and solopreneurs make up about 80% of all small businesses. At the same time, fewer than 10% of IT service providers want sole practitioners, solopreneurs, and other very small businesses as clients. Picking the right suite of IT solutions, and finding the right IT service provider is essential for your productivity, security, and budget.
Is Your AI OK?
(09/15/25) - AI is here. Your business is using AI – officially or not. And with AI comes “AI Data Leaks.” AI has the power to do good and to do damage. Managing your AI services, and security, is the best way to ensure your AI is OK.
Make IT Decisions with Confidence
(08/19/25) - As small business owners and leaders, we struggle to make IT decisions. We may trust our advisors, our sources of information and guidance, but is that enough? In order to make IT decisions with confidence, we need to trust ourselves. If not, we struggle with analysis paralysis amid overwhelming information and options.
Better IT for SMBs
(06/17/25) - Most IT firms serving small and midsize businesses target companies with more than 20 employees. As a smaller business, your IT needs differ. You want and deserve secure, productive, and affordable IT. This 3T@3 Series event recording dives into how sole practitioners and very small businesses can and should get the productive, secure, and affordable IT solutions and services you need.
Secure Your Data for Gemini AI
(05/20/25) - Take steps to ensure that Gemini and other AI tools will not expose sensitive information internally or externally. In this 3T@3 Series online event, Cumulus Global CEO Allen Falcon is joined by Paul Lees, CEO of Bespin labs to discuss the importance of data governance and security with gen AI in Google Workspace.
Pick the Right Service Plan
(04/15/25) - Management, administration, training, and support determine how much value you get from your IT services and systems. In this live 3T@3 Series online event, Cumulus Global CEO Allen Falcon discusses how to select the right service plan and managed cloud services for your business.
Managed Cloud Services Update
(03/18/25) - Cumulus Global is updating our Managed Cloud Services to expand protections against cyber attacks. Cybersecurity Enhancements Add Value to your Managed Cloud Services. Changes to our traditional Service Plans give you even more options.
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for SMBs
(02/18/25) - If your business must comply with government or industry regulations covering disclosure of protected information, Data Loss Prevention (DLP) can be complex and expensive. This session coves affordable, effective DLP solutions for small and midsize businesses, like yours.
Your 2025 IT Checklist
(01/21/25) - 2025 will be a year of change. Expect new economic, political, business, and technology opportunities and challenges. Smart IT spending requires upfront planning. A 2025 IT Checklist for creates a roadmap for cost-effective IT decisions that yield better results.
A Techy Look at 2025
(12/17/24) - Technology, the economy, and governmental policies will each impact our businesses in separate and intertwining ways. Consider these 5 technology related Issues as you make your 2025 plans
IT Safety for Sole Practitioners, Startups, and Smaller Businesses
(11/19/24) - Your computer, and your IT services, are your business lifeline. Manage, protect, and secure them to protect your business. Here are affordable solutions to protect you and your business.
Google Gemini Quick Start
(10/15/24) - The value of Google Gemini depends on how well you are able to use it. This Gemini Quick Start gives you an overview of your options, shares more than 11 ways you can use Gemini, and covers Gemini's limitations.
Cybersecurity: Enough is Enough
(9/24/24) - Beyond industry and regulatory requirements, your cybersecurity should match your business's risks, needs, and budget .. and nothing more. This event focuses on affordably scaling your cybersecurity.
Check Your IT Blind Spots
(7/23/24) - Blind Spots evolve when we fail to reassess decisions as technology, business, and other factors change over time. Checking your IT Blind Spots will identify opportunities for savings, security, and improvements.
Small Business Compliance Primer
(6/18/24) - For many of us, ensuring we have the right security and compliance program in place remains a challenge. A basic understanding of security and compliance will inform and guide your security priorities, plans, investment, and results.
Gen AI Prompts and Privacy
(05/21/24) - Gen AI tools can boost your productivity or waste your time. The better your Gen AI prompts, the more effective and efficient Gen AI will be for you. The session provides and demonstrates a model for effective prompt-building.
Rethinking Google and Microsoft
(04/30/24) - As both suites evolve, and your business changes, is your choice still the best match for your business? Assessing whether Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace is the best fit for your business needs should either trigger a change or improve how you use your current services.
Be Prepared for New Cybersecurity Requirements
(03/26/24) - Increased governmental and industry regulations, a maturing cybersecurity industry, and supply chain best-practices are driving requirements for advanced security services and business continuity solutions.
Using VDI to Improve Hybrid Work
(02/27/24) - Supporting hybrid workers comes with additional security, BYOD, access, performance, and budget challenges. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) & remote desktop services improve security, access, and performance without damaging your budget.
Select Your Managed Cloud Services
(01/16/24) - The right managed cloud services can significantly impact your team’s productivity. You can ensure your systems are secure, you team is productive, and that you are protected against cyber attacks and other disruptions. Just as important, you can protect your budget.
Your 2024 IT Action Plan
(12/19/2023) - When planning for the upcoming year, we often forget to consider the role our technology and services can play in supporting our business goals and objectives. Align your IT plans to best support your business goals.
SaaSOps: What, Why, How
(11/21/2023) - Even small and midsize businesses like yours are using multiple cloud and IT services. More than Google Workspace or Microsoft 365, your cloud portfolio likely includes applications and services for accounting, customer relationship management, marketing, and security. Automating common admin and management tasks saves time and money, and improves security.
Choose the Right Managed Cloud Services
(10/17/2023) - Business leaders like you understand the need for effective, secure, and affordable IT services. Hiring or contracting for services has likely been unaffordable. Managed Cloud Services, when properly matched to your business, provide the capabilities, security, and services you need at affordable rates. Hear from experts about defining needs and selecting the right services, technologies, and partners.
Deep Dive: Lift-and-Shift and DaaS
(07/18/2023) - As SMBs, we still have on-premise file and application servers that require upgrades, security, backup, monitoring, management, and support. Evaluating your on-premise IT, and moving what you can to the cloud, increases the business value of your IT spending and investments.
Five Things Your IT Provider Should be Telling You
(06/20/2023) - We tend to wait for our IT service providers to raise warning flags, and the periodic review with our IT provider can feel like a subtle sales call. Reacting to IT problems is not enough, and adding more IT services may not be the answer.
The High Cost of Low Adoption
(05/23/2023) - Beyond core features in Google Workspace and Microsoft 365, cloud adoption tends to be fairly low. Better cloud adoption improves productivity, communication, and security. And, it can save you money.
Cloud Cover: Strategies for Small Businesses
(04/18/2023) - As small businesses, we can do more with the cloud then Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. But if we want to take advantage of the benefits of managed cloud services, we need better cloud strategies.
Cyber Security: 3 Questions and Shared Responsibility
(03/21/2023) - The cloud's Shared Responsibility Model places most of the security and data protection burden on you. Our webcast explores 3 key questions and the shared responsibility model to help you plan, deploy, and manage effective, and cost-effective, security..
Hybrid IT for SMBs
(02/21/2023) - A sound Hybrid IT strategy creates better collaboration, cost efficiencies, security, and resiliency. Review your hybrid business strategy and supporting IT services. Address your business, technology, security, and cost challenges.
Security CPR®
(01/24/2022) - Cybersecurity requires policies, procedures, supporting technologies, and a culture of awareness. This webcast is a deep dive into our Security CPR® model for preventing and surviving cyber attacks.
2022 Wrap Up
(01/03/2022) - Hopefully our plans for the new year are nearly complete and we will jump into January ready to execute and succeed. It is a great time of year to review and look forward to the new year. Let’s close out the year with new ideas and information.
Lower the Price of Productivity
(11/15/2022) - Our IT solutions serve a purpose: to help us operate our businesses as efficiently and effectively as possible. Are you paying for duplicate IT services? Reviewing and streamlining IT services supports productivity at a lower price.
Cloud Cover – Manage IT All
(9/20/2022) - The right IT management and services add value and save money. Learn IT management strategies for small and midsize businesses that can better match current and evolving business needs and priorities.
Cloud Cover – Hybrid Work
(8/16/2022) - Successful businesses will adapt to changing expectations. You can, affordably, adapt your IT to hybrid work while improving security and resilience. This webcast covers the IT strategies and solutions to help you adjust your IT services to better support hybrid work.
Get IT Ready for Recession
(7/19/2022) - Cutting IT costs can help your bottom line in the near-term, but may do more harm than good. Smart IT planning helps your business survive and thrive through a recession and beyond.
A Cyber Insurance Primer
(6/21/2022) - With the increase in cyber attacks, cyber insurance is a necessity. All too often, however, businesses learn that the process is significantly more complicated. Cyber Insurance is a tool, not a solution.
Streamlining Security
(5/17/2022) - While small businesses are more vulnerable and more frequent targets of cyber attacks, constant fear-mongering and hype does not help. Sound business practices, not fear, should be your motivation to protect against cyber attacks.
Spring Cleaning Your Files
(4/19/2022) - With an understanding of personal file services – OneDrive and My Drive – and domain file services – Shared Drives and Sharepoint, businesses can build a file service that organizes and protects files in ways that make them easier to find, share, and use.
Beyond Backup
(3/15/2022) - Map out how restore, recovery, and continuity solutions offer different value propositions for you and your business. Assess total cost and impact when selecting your solution.
Peak Productivity
(2/22/2022) - We all have our jobs to do. We want to do well. We want to succeed. We want and need peak productivity. While “hacks” are trendy, productivity is boosted when we understand how to best use the tools we have.
Keep IT Simple
(1/25/2022) - Solid IT services are critical to your success, but they consume your time and budget. Using managed services ensures you have effective and affordable services and frees up time and money to focus on your core business activities.
2022 is Here; What’s Next?
(12/14/2021) - COVID-19 triggered fundamental changes in the economy, markets, and society that alter the way we need to operate our businesses and work as individuals. Explore ways small and midsize businesses can better leverage technologies and resources to respond to these challenges.
Four Cornerstones for Cloud Security
(11/16/2021) - Four security cornerstones create a solid foundation for your cloud security. Assess your security footprint; Identify security gaps; Prioritize changes and security services.
Cloud File Services
(10/19/2021) - Moving to a managed cloud file service can improve access, productivity, and resilience without sacrificing security and budget.
Manage Cloud Services Primer
(9/21/2021) - Managed Cloud Services differ from traditional managed and “break-fix” services. Explore how, beyond cost savings, Manage Cloud Services offer strategic security, services, and business advantages.
Email Security and Reliability
(8/17/2021) - A deep dive look at email security and reliability, with a focus on how DMARC prevents business email compromises, spoofing, and phishing attacks. In addition to protecting you from inbound attacks, DMARC protects your domain’s reputation and helps ensure reliable email deliverability.
Email Security and Compliance
(7/20/2021) - An updated look at email security and compliance. Summarizing risks and trends, we dive into a tiered approach to ensuring your business, data, employees, and reputation are protected. We also discuss emerging compliance requirements and steps you can take to ensure you operate within regulatory, industry, and policy expectations.
Small Business Guide to Cyber Threats, Security, and Response
(6/15/2021) - A practical guide to cyber threats and security. We will share data that quantifies the most prevalent types of risks and will outline practical, reasonable, and affordable steps you can take to both protect your business and, should an attack succeed, respond and recover.
Productivity Suites: Google and Microsoft Revisited
(5/18/2021) - Take a fresh look at Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 and how each might best serve your business. Rather than a feature-by-feature comparison, we take a strategic look at positioning, architecture, services, subscription options, and integrations.
Next Normal: WFH and Remote
(4/20/2021) - We explore how Work From Home and remote workers alters your IT service needs. Taking a holistic view, we look beyond using apps and accessing files, discussing factors that protect your business and support productivity
Next Normal: Apps & Servers
(3/16/2021) - COVID-19 and the events of the past 10 months have, and continue, to change the way we run our businesses. Explore how your team accesses the applications, systems, and data they need to succeed, whether in the office or working remotely.
Next Normal: IT Efficiency
(02/23/2021) - COVID-19 and the events of the past 10 months have, and continue, to change the way we run our businesses. Are the IT choices made during the crisis the best for your business in the long term?
Risk and Reward: Cyber Threats and Insurance
(01/19/2021) -In addition to an overview of the risks and liabilities of cyber attacks and data breaches, the team will discuss the role of Cyber Insurance in your protection and recovery strategy.
Work from Home Action Plan
(12/15/2020) -The fundamental shift to remote work, work from home, and hybrid work models creates new requirements for technology and services.
Google Workspace Action Plan
(11/17/2020) - Now is the time to understand your options and decide how and when you want to move. Get an overview of the new range of Google Workspace subscriptions and your migration paths and options.
Lift and Shift – Your Next Cloud Move
(10/20/2020) - Now is the time to explore Lift and Shift as your Next Move in the Cloud.. Understand the process, user access, security, operations, and cost.
Getting Back to What Comes Next
(09/15/2020) - We cannot wait for things to return to the way they were before. Nor should we expect they will. Now may be the time to step back, assess, and streamline your IT services for remote and hybrid operations.
Pandemics, Politics, and Planning for What’s Next
(07/21/2020) - Our decisions impact our businesses, customers, employees, and communities. Explore the many factors creating challenges and how we, as leaders within our organizations, can drive adaptation to meet these challenges and achieve our goals and objectives.
Protect with Tech
(06/16/2020) - We expect remote and at-home work, cloud computing, and team collaboration to be part of our business operations and technology strategies. As such, we need to ensure we protect our business, data, and people.
COVID-19 Response & Recovery
(05/19/2020) - A comprehensive Recovery Road Map will help ensure your business' survival. Current changes to the business climate. Ways in which we can help our businesses survive and thrive. Targeted cloud solutions that can help you achieve your business goals. .Drafting your Recovery Road Map.
Succeeding in our “Now” Normal
(04/21/2020) - This is not our "new" normal, since it will end at sometime in the future. It is, however, our "now" normal. We will present the data, share issues, and discuss solutions.
