Tabush Group's Cloud & Managed IT Blog

Cloud is one of the hot topics in IT and has been for the past few years. Prior to 2010, cloud products were often inferior to their traditional on-premise counterparts. Since then, however, much has changed, including advancements in telecom, mobile devices, and data center technologies.  Combine that with the maturity of cloud providers and products, and now cloud solutions are often positioned as the best option for law firms.

When businesses today consider the future of their IT, cloud is always part of the conversation, and rightfully so.  Improvements in technology over the past decade have enabled many functions to be accomplished through a cloud service that previously required servers.

Anytime a business needs to make an IT decision, the primary focus should be value.  Change always has a cost – be it the time to implement or train staff in a new system, the cost of the unknowns in the new system (versus the knowns of the current system), or the actual hard cost in dollars of new technology.  In any case, a business almost always decides to make a change because they are confident that the value delivered by the new system will outweigh its costs and risks, and it will do so by ultimately increasing the company’s productivity and efficiency.  Given all this, we are often presented with a very simple question regarding our Boxtop cloud IT platform, “Will Boxtop save us money?”  While the answer is not universal and often takes some time to get to, it is most often ‘yes.’ Here is how.

We recently published a post, 6 Considerations When Moving Desktops to the Cloud, that discussed the most important factors to consider once a firm decides that cloud is the right decision.  The next step is ensuring that the implementation goes smoothly.

Over the past few years, moving desktops and servers to the cloud has become an increasingly attractive and popular option for businesses that rely on their IT to be secure, reliable, and accessible. Once a business makes the decision to move their desktops to the cloud, there are dozens of factors to consider and many providers to choose from.

Here are 6 of the most important factors to consider when moving desktops to the cloud.

If you’re a small CPA firm (think 10-50 employees), your IT scenario is probably as follows: You have a local IT consultant or MSP that you rely on and trust to help you make the right IT decisions for your firm. Perhaps you have someone in-house to help with desktop support (either a dedicated person or the employee who is stuck being the go-to for support in addition to his or her regular job), and every so often, when faced with an IT problem (outage, security breach or employee complaint) or large expense (repair, replacement, or upgrade), you find yourself wondering if there’s a better way.

In case you missed yesterday's presentation by Morris Tabush and Barron Henley at the ABA TECHSHOW 2019,  We Don't Need No Stinking Server! (Or Do We?), here is a fabulous visual summary.

Tabush Group will be at ABA TECHSHOW 2019 tomorrow through Friday in Chicago.  Stop by booth #1010  to chat with Morris Tabush and Darragh Fitzpatrick to learn about how we simplify your IT so you can focus on growing your practice. We'd love the opportunity to meet with you, answer your IT questions, and better understand your firm's goals.