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.

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.

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.

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.

Not long ago I read, “The Untold Story of NotPetya, the Most Devastating Cyberattack in History,” an eye-opening article on Wired about a massive cyberattack that happened roughly a year ago in 2017. If you have 15 minutes, I highly recommend reading it. If you don't, then allow me to summarize: In 2017, NotPetya malware infected large companies such as Merck, Maersk, and others (companies with huge IT teams and thousands of employees), and literally brought their entire operations to a grinding halt for days, if not weeks, costing them upwards of $300 million in damages per company.

We are often asked whether there are any differences between Boxtop and a computer. In this short video, hear Morris explain if there are any differences, as well as the benefits Boxtop users experience.

Companies choose to switch from their current IT to Boxtop, moving their entire IT to the cloud, for many reasons. In our latest 1-minute video clip, watch Morris explain some of these reasons.