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
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.
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.
