Cloud Consultancy News
Apple’s Stock Races Ahead as Investors Bet on New iPhones
A year ago, many investors had given up on Apple, whose stock price had fallen more than 30 percent from its 2015 peak. Apple’s once-unstoppable growth had come to a crashing halt: The number of iPhones sold was down 13 percent, and the company posted its first...
Office 365 – Advanced Threat Protection Update
According to a recent Ponemon Institute study,* the average cost of a data breach has risen to $4 million, with costs incurred for litigation, brand or reputation damage, lost sales and in some cases—complete business closure. Staying ahead of threats has never been...
Microsoft Unveils Free Cloud Migration Assessment Tool
Microsoft has rolled out a new, free tool to help you decide if your company should make the move. The Cloud Migration Assessment service walks you through an examination of your resources and cost-benefit analysis. To get the tool you have to give Microsoft your...
Microsoft Planning to End Support for Standalone Versions of Office by 2020
The future of Microsoft Office is subscriptions. That sums up what the company confirmed recently in a blog post notifying users about its plans to wind down support for standalone versions, or what are known as perpetual licenses. That means versions such as Office...
Microsoft launches Azure postal service in UK
Microsoft has launched its Azure Import/Export service allowing Azure customers to post their hard drives to the vendor and have their data moved to Microsoft's cloud. For a flat fee, £59.63, customers struggling to upload large amounts of data to Microsoft's public...
New Microsoft tools integrate LinkedIn data directly into Dynamics 365
Microsoft announced some significant integrations between LinkedIn, the professional social network it bought last year for over $26 billion and Microsoft Dynamics 365, the company’s CRM and ERP suite. It was clear that when Microsoft paid that much money for...
McAfee warning over new zero-day attack that installs malware on PCs via infected Microsoft Word documents
Users of Microsoft Office are being warned of a new zero-day security flaw that has been exploited since at least January. The security flaw enables attackers to covertly install malware on PCs by exploiting flaws in Microsoft's Object, Linking and Embedding (OLE)...
Two-thirds of British business now use public cloud – Computing Research
Just under two-thirds of British business (62 per cent) now use public cloud to store data, according to Computer Research. Revealed at the Computing's IT Leaders' Forum, 'Data, insight, action - the new imperative', in association with IBM, the research suggests that...
Microsoft StaffHub
If you work within the travel, retail, hospitality, restaurant, healthcare, construction or another service related business sector take a look at ‘StaffHub’. It’s a new Office 365 application designed to help employees who do not have their own office, desk or...
Apple quietly upgrades iPhones & announces new iPad
Yesterday Apple announced new red versions of the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus handsets. The red iPhone will be available worldwide on 24th March with some of the proceeds going to the RED organization that supports AIDS prevention and research. Apple has released red versions...