Cloud Services

• Spam Filtering
• Email Archiving
• Offsite Backup and Recovery
• Hosted Email

Lately we’ve been hearing a lot of questions from business owners and managers about the cloud, like “What is it?” and “What does it mean for my business?”  ”Cloud computing” is just a popular buzz term people use to describe internet-based computing.  For example, email services like Gmail and Hotmail are cloud-based, whereas Microsoft Outlook is desktop-based.

What does it mean for your business?  For starters, you have more options.  For example, you have a choice between hosting your email in-house and using a cloud-based service like Google Apps or Microsoft Hosted Exchange.  For a lot of businesses, cloud-based email is a good fit, because it’s easier to share calendars, sync email with your smartphones and access your email when you’re out of the office.

Other applications aren’t quite ready for the cloud.  For instance, we’ve seen some accounting systems that work much better in their desktop form than in the cloud.  Their cloud-based applications lack the bells and whistles that make the desktop counterpart so useful.

Here at Nexxtep, we take a practical approach to cloud computing.  If you’re interested in cloud services, we’d be glad to sit down with you and discuss your options.  Our priority is to do what’s in your best interest.  We’ll work with you to find the best fit for your organization.