Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Prepare for GDPR today with Microsoft 365
The GDPR is a comprehensive set of rules designed to protect personal data. It's a responsibility that every company should already be doing. But to make compliance easier, Microsoft 365 has built-in GDPR compliance functions so you can protect your customers' data and still focus on providing them with exceptional service. Read this white paper on how to prepare your business for GDPR and contact us for more. At Lantel Cloud, we want to help you keep your customers safe and happy.
How to gain visibility and control of data in cloud apps
This infographic shows the progression from cloud discovery to information and threat protection.
View: How to gain visibility and control of data in cloud apps
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Preparing for GDPR: Compliance management and information protection capabilities in Microsoft 365
With the new Compliance Manager from Microsoft, you can assess and manage your GDPR preparation for files stored in Office 365, file servers, and SharePoint on-premises across numerous file types and platforms. It's just one way that Microsoft is working to help you along your GDPR compliance journey.
At Lantel Cloud, we want to help you get GDPR compliant. Contact us and watch this short video for more.
Glassybaby Empowers Firstline Workers with Intuitive Microsoft Office 365 Scheduling
Glassybaby is a business born out of hope by a founder who survived cancer. The company wrestled with managing retail shift scheduling until they finally overcame their challenges with intuitive Microsoft Office 365 scheduling. By collaborating on scheduling in real time from anywhere at the touch of a button, the company's first-line workers and managers saved countless hours, giving them more time to focus on their customers and their mission to help others.
Mapping Data Protection Strategies For The New Year
Even when Lewis and Clark set out to find the Northwest Passage, they had to keep business continuity and disaster recovery top of mind. Like those explorers, business owners and IT teams must put plans in place to mitigate unforeseen dangers and risks, while protecting data.
Consumption-Based Infrastructure on Your Terms
This solution brief provides an overview of HPE Greenlake Flex Capacity offerings to help businesses more quickly and easily right-size infrastructure and add capacity with a cloud-based, flexible consumption model.
SQL Server and Azure SQL Database GDPR Guidance
The task of GDPR compliance can be overwhelming for businesses but it doesn't have to be. This guide is intended to help businesses better understand what GDPR entails and begin the process of adapting their current security measures to meet the new requirements. Luckily for small and large businesses alike, Microsoft has done a lot of the heavy lifting when it comes to preparing the infrastructure for successful compliance.
Monday, March 25, 2019
Growing SQL Server: Features from 2008 to 2017
As the end of service approaches for SQL Server 2008, let's take a moment to reflect on where we have been and the exciting new innovations available with SQL Server 2017.
Customer story: Zespri
Zespri International markets and sells kiwifruit to retailers around the world. After business was disrupted by an earthquake and plant virus, the New Zealand grower moved business-critical SAP workloads to Microsoft Azure, reducing IT costs, promoting scalability, ensuring business continuity, and enabling the company to focus on what they do best--growing and selling kiwifruit.
Growth is the Watchword for 2019
In this video, Paul Sallomi -- global technology, media and telecommunications industry leader and US and global technology sector leader at Deloitte -- steps through highlights of the Deloitte 2019 Technology Industry Outlook. Sallomi presents results from Deloitte's 2018 Flexible Consumption Models study, indicating that the flexibility to consume technology on an as-needed basis will become increasingly important to business growth in the coming year.
Customer Story: SitePro - part 5
SitePro is pushing the boundaries of what's possible for their oil and gas customers. To do this, they needed to be as agile and as informed as possible. They moved to Azure to enjoy the freedom and possibilities of the cloud.
Thursday, March 21, 2019
Contextual marketing and the power of removing data silos
Siloed data compromises business productivity. It can also compromise customer experience, which can be costly. In fact, according to a 2016 Accenture study, the estimated cost of customers switching to another provider due to poor service was $1.6 trillion. Regardless of the industry, businesses must deliver a positive, consistent, and personalized experience to keep customers loyal and happy.
In this Forbes article, read how marketers are doing just that. By removing data silos and consolidating customer data into a central, cloud-based location, they're not only making real-time, data-driven decisions, but they're also "turning browsers into buyers and driving customer loyalty."
Six Ways To Improve Team Collaboration And Enhance Productivity
Working as a team can be a difficult feat to achieve for any business, especially when it involves bringing together people who don't normally do so. But in order to succeed, you need everyone onboard, and this means giving them Office 365. With Office 365 you can connect better with customers and colleagues with a range of communication tools, from email and IM to social networking and video conferencing. At Lantel Cloud, we want to help. Contact us and read this article for more.
Cloud computing: Five ways to make the most of the move to on-demand
Some companies are already moving to the cloud and don't have a strategy in place to maximize their cloud services. At Lantel Cloud, we want to make sure that you shift with a plan. With Azure, you can develop and deploy where you want, facilitating your cloud strategy and any changes that may come. It's the only consistent hybrid cloud on the market. We want to help you make the journey to the cloud. Contact us and check out this article to get the most out of your journey.
6 Ways To Empower Your Employees With Customer Data Analytics
For your business to thrive, all employees should be involved with analyzing customer data. It ensures every person is aware of what the customer wants and confirms everyone is aligned with your strategy moving forward. Azure real-time dashboards help transform live data into actionable and insightful visuals, and they help you focus on what matters the most. Lantel Cloud wants to help. Contact us and check out this article for more
Here's How Microsoft Is Investing in AI
Microsoft views AI as an integral part of its cloud-computing business. With AI as the backbone of Azure Cognitive Services, more that 1 million developers have used Azure for image processing, data analysis, speech and language processing, and enhanced search capabilities just to name a few reasons. Azure is the most trusted platform by IT pros on the market. Contact Lantel Cloud and check out this article to learn more.
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
3 ways to grow your business with email marketing
Digital marketing can be a daunting prospect for many small business owners -- especially considering that your larger competitors may have entire digital marketing departments on the case. Even some email marketing services can be overwhelming, with dozens of templates making it confusing to know where to start or what to write.
Microsoft Connections simplifies this process, making reaching out to customers as easy as sending an email. Just choose from three pre-designed templates for newsletters, announcements or customer referrals. You can easily build a subscriber list and track results to improve your messaging.
This eBook shares three key ways in which Connections can help you improve customer engagement while growing your business.
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Veriown Energy Uses Office 365 to Generate Business
Veriown Energy saved US$27,468 by reconfiguring their productivity platform. For a business of any size, it's important that you maximize the cloud platform that you use. With Microsoft Office 365, collaboration, agility, and mobility are easy. You can even change your productivity platform to suit your specific needs maximizing your time and stretching your dollar further. Lantel Cloud wants to help you integrate Office 365. Contact us and check out this video for more.
Chillibreeze brings jobs to northeast India with Office 365 and SideKick 365 xRM
Ten years ago, Joanna and Ralph Budelman founded Chillibreeze to create jobs in rural NE India. Overcoming limited IT resources and infrastructure, they created a niche PowerPoint service for global customers. But they struggled to meet increasing customer demand with their ad hoc solutions and siloed data. In this week's video, watch how Microsoft partner, Skylight Systems, helped Chillibreeze to build infrastructure where there was none and to pull together disparate data with Office 365 and SideKick 365 xRM. Chillibreeze, now a 50-employee firm, serves customers around the world.
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Connected Drone Video 3--eSmart Systems has developed a drone that uses AI on Microsoft Azure
eSmart Systems began developing Connected Drone out of a strong conviction that drones combined with cloud intelligence could bring a positive disruptive change to the power industry. eSmart Systems uses Azure's cloud capabilities to analyze multiple data feeds streamed from the drones providing real-time and useful analysis. At Lantel Cloud, we want to help you integrate the best cloud services provider that will help you make the changes you need to your business.
Welcome to our office: David McCandless, renowned data journalist and speaker
As a renowned data journalist and speaker, David McCandless needs a powerful data solution that he can use to drive unique insight, facilitate meaning, and enable his team's collaboration. With Azure, he can easily develop and run parallel real-time analytics on multiple streams of data. You can employ that same power. Contact Lantel Cloud to find out how we can help you unlock the potential of your data and check out this short video for more on David McCandless.
Democratizing AI to Improve Citizen Health
Healthcare literature has exploded in the past few decades. And with so much more content, doctors are having a hard time finding the information they need to help save lives. Using AI, doctors at the Cochrane Transform Project and thousands of other scientists are increasing the speed with which they can conduct research. A process that used to take years now takes weeks. Imagine how your organization can use the power of AI. Contact Lantel Cloud for more.
Managing the enterprise cloud with Operations Management Suite
With cloud-based monitoring, Microsoft can keep watch over their entire IT operations environment, from the cloud to the datacenter, using the Operations Management Suite (OMS). With OMS, Microsoft doesn't need to add on-premises infrastructure. They can automate tasks and analyze logs and reporting across multiple platforms--including Azure and Windows Server. Your business can do the same. Contact Lantel Cloud to find out more information.
View: Managing the enterprise cloud with Operations Management Suite
What is Microsoft Azure?
Azure is a flexible, open, and secure platform. It grants you access to a broad collection of tools you can integrate into your IT environment. With 70+ compliance offerings, and 95% of Fortune 500 companies on board, you can be sure that the services Azure provides are secure and offer the largest portfolio in the industry. Contact Lantel Cloud to find out more on how we can help you integrate Azure solutions into your business.
Monday, March 18, 2019
Artificial Intelligence for your Hybrid Cloud World
This white paper provides an overview of HPE InfoSight -- Artificial Intelligence (AI) that predicts and prevents problems across the infrastructure stack to optimize performance and efficient resource use. It explores how HPE InfoSight with its recommendation engine paves the way for autonomous infrastructure, enabling IT to focus its efforts on value creation.
SQL Database Engine Blog: What is Azure SQL Database Managed Instance?
Curious about the new Azure SQL Database Managed Instance? This article covers specifics about the offering, including features, security, scalability, and architecture.
HPE InfoSight: AI for the Data Center ChalkTalk
This video gives an overview of HPE's vision for artificial intelligence in the data center, showing how InfoSight Predictive Analytics leverages deep data analytics to help organizations minimize disruptions, business impact and wasted time.
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
Three steps to a new paradigm for disaster recovery and backup
Ransomware is putting entire systems at risk. You can't afford to let that happen to your business. Prevent attacks by taking a proactive approach. With Azure Backup, protect your on-premises virtual machines, physical servers, and files to Azure. With your data in Azure, you have the flexibility to restore your data to a specific period in time to keep your business moving.
How Microsoft Is Using LinkedIn To Take On Salesforce.com And Transform The Science Of Sales
After outbidding Salesforce.com for LinkedIn 18 months ago, Microsoft has created powerful ways to combine LinkedIn sales tools and its 530 million members with Dynamics 365 SaaS apps for Sales and CRM, plus Office 365, to drive huge gains in sales productivity and overall digital transformation.
Accelerate your GDPR compliance journey with Microsoft 365
Navigating toward GDPR compliance requires an approach that will allow you to get the most out of the process. The capabilities of Microsoft 365 can accelerate your journey to GDPR compliance. With a deep understanding of GDPR and its implications on organizations, Microsoft is set up to help you navigate the murky waters. Don't attempt to swim through the regulations on your own. At Lantel Cloud, we can help guide you on your journey. Contact us for more.
View: Accelerate your GDPR compliance journey with Microsoft 365
Journey to GDPR Compliance
This e-book addresses Microsoft's own journey to GDPR compliance. It shares their approach to global regulations and standards like the GDPR, what they've been doing to drive compliance within Microsoft, and key lessons learned along the way. This e-book will give you a window into the level of investment Microsoft has made.
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Office 365 Helps You Maintain & Grow Customer Relationships
In this clip, Lantel Cloud examines how Outlook Customer Manager, a component of Office 365, helps small-business owners like Trevor Cressey maintain and grow their customer relationships. Trevor, whose Premier Water Removal service dries out flooded homes or businesses, depends on Outlook Customer Manager to track and organize all his customer data and keep it in one place for fast, easy access. Let us show you how Outlook Customer Manager can help you create happy customers--and generate repeat business.
Understanding the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and your options with Microsoft 365
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) imposes new obligations on businesses in the EU that collect and analyze data tied to EU residents. Compliance with these new regulations can be confusing. That's why Microsoft has created a set of tools that make compliance easier. At Lantel Cloud, we want to help with your compliance journey. Contact us for more.
Customer story: Maersk
You can't do everything on your own. Having a team of professionals with in-depth experience can revolutionize your business. Since integrating with Microsoft Services, Maersk, a logistics company and global container shipping leader, has dramatically reduced their time to market and improved their performance and reduced their operational risk.
WS + SQL 2008 Extended Security Updates FAQ
As the end of support for Windows Server SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 approaches, questions will undoubtedly arise, especially relating to the Extended Security Updates offered by Microsoft. This document is here to answer those questions.
Discover the benefits of modernization and save with Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
Why move your on-premises SQL Server to the Azure cloud? Check out this infographic to learn about the savings and latest technological benefits of switching to Azure SQL Database Managed Instance.
View: Discover the benefits of modernization and save with Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
Monday, March 11, 2019
Customer Story: SitePro - part 4
SitePro is harnessing the power of technology through the IoT and cloud capabilities to help their customers create safer, more efficient work environments.
Friday, March 8, 2019
Three reasons why Windows Server and SQL Server customers continue to choose Azure
For the past 25 years, companies of every size have trusted Windows Server and SQL Server to run their business-critical workloads. In fact, more than 70 percent of on-premises server workloads today run on Windows Server.
How to encourage positive collaboration on team projects
Team meetings can be a drag. Many times they don't seem to really be necessary. But how do you share thoughts and collaborate without being there in person? There's a lot of tech out there that allows you to video conference, but only Microsoft Office 365 gives you the collaboration, communication, and ability to share in the familiar format that you know and trust. At Lantel Cloud, we want to help you collaborate. Contact us to find out how we can help and check out this article.
Thursday, March 7, 2019
Why mobility is a culture and not a product
Of the seven billion people on the planet, six billion have mobile phones! Access and mobility are transforming the way we work and live--around the globe. The businesses that embrace this and respond in their customer service, business decisions, and workplace culture are the most likely to endure. Read this Forbes article to learn essential qualities your business should cultivate to succeed in the digital marketplace and mobile world.
5 Things You Should Know About Hybrid Cloud
In a recent study, 74% of enterprise IT infrastructure decision makers surveyed described their cloud strategy as hybrid. But is there a standard definition for hybrid? For many, it's transitioning your on-premises infrastructure to the cloud. Azure cloud services can help you do just that. With programs like Azure Migrate, you can seamlessly shift with confidence. At Lantel Cloud, we want to help you make the journey to the cloud. Contact us and check out this article for more.
What does e-commerce data and analytics look like in 2018?
There is a lot to think about when it comes to data, and it may not be immediately clear which metrics are most important for your team. Fortunately, very little additional effort is required to track a wider variety of data sets, and you can always scale your data tracking with Azure. Lantel Cloud wants to help you integrate this powerful tool. Contact us and check out this article to find out more information.
Artificial intelligence: 4 truths CIOs should know
Think AI is coming for your job? You're not alone, but is it a real concern? Most CIOs agree that some jobs will fall victim to automation, but that doesn't negate the fact that AI can facilitate a number of processes within your organization. Easy to deploy, configure, secure, and manage your network, Azure incorporates AI to make your life and your business easier. Contact Lantel Cloud and check out this article to learn more.
Protecting Azure resources with Recovery Services vault
Like many businesses, as their organization began rapidly migrating and deploying solutions to Azure, the demand for data protection in the cloud has also increased. That's why Microsoft developed Azure Recovery Services vault to help manage their backup and disaster recovery needs natively in the cloud. Contact Lantel Cloud to find out more on how we can help you use this same solution to meet your data recovery needs.
View: Protecting Azure resources with Recovery Services vault
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Compliance Framework for Industry Standards and Regulations for Office 365 and related Microsoft services
We work hard to bring our customers the latest innovations in productivity with Office 365 and related Microsoft services. At the same time, we understand that compliance with standards and regulations, and the ability to use integrated tools to help meet compliance needs, are imperative and unwavering requirements for our customers.
To help customers with their compliance needs related to Office 365, we have created a compliance framework that is designed to give customers visibility into Office 365's compliance with global, regional and industry standards, and details how customers can control Office 365 services based on compliance needs.
Infographic: Seriously Easy Compliance with Office 365
Got compliance? #Office365 protects your data--and your company's reputation--with adherence to 10 rigorous privacy-compliance standards.
Office 365 Customer Story: GE powers its culture of curiosity with the Microsoft cloud
Collaboration and communication are the keys to any well-run business. With over 300,000 employees, GE knows all too well the challenges of such an endeavor. Thanks to Office 365, GE can focus on creativity instead of on the processes that drive it. With teams forming dynamically, GE employees now work together better to solve the world's toughest problems. Lantel Cloud wants to help your teams integrate Office 365 so they can collaborate and focus on what matters.
Dakine gears up for productivity with Office 365
Mobility is changing the definition of work. And at Dakine, a company built on relationships and a love of sports, mobility means freedom. With Office 365, Dakine employees in the US and abroad can access documents from anywhere and collaborate on the go. The ease and flexibility of tools, including OneDrive, OneNote, and Skype for Business, have helped Dakine employees stay connected, save time, and increase productivity.
Weathering the storm: Big data and cloud technologies safeguard lives and businesses worldwide
AccuWeather is helping 1.5 billion people safeguard and improve their lives and businesses. Getting critical lifesaving information out to the people who need it most requires the ability to communicate quickly--Microsoft provides that capability with Azure cloud services. With access to a robust networking infrastructure, you can tailor your cloud to meet your needs. Azure gives you the power to change lives and businesses. Watch this clip and contact Lantel Cloud for more.
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
Dunnhumby uses Azure to deliver real-time data science
As a world leader in customer service, dunnhumby is used to analyzing big data. But with more demands for consumer intelligence from a growing number of data sources, their real-time processing power needed a boost. Azure was the answer. Dunnhumby uses Azure to scale its workloads to meet their needs, whatever those needs might be. Contact Lantel Cloud to find out how we can help you unlock that same power and check out this short video.
CHAMP app saves babies' lives
Congenital heart disease affects about 1% of newborns. Helping them stay alive is tough business. Thanks to Microsoft and advances in AI, that's changing. At Lantel Cloud, we know that AI has the potential to change every organization out there, and we want your company to benefit. While doctors can now monitor a child's health at home thanks to AI, there are a number of ways that same tech can be used in Azure to improve your business. Check out this video and contact us for more.
Backup and Disaster Recovery
You need to back up your data. But you shouldn't use just any service, you need a platform your team is already familiar with, a platform you can trust. You need Microsoft Azure. Azure offers an effective solution with enormous capacity for storage, built-in security, and cloud datacenters all over the world. At Lantel Cloud, we want to help you adopt the solution you need with Azure. Contact us for more information.
AI-driven Operations for Virtualized Infrastructure
Avoiding application disruption and downtime is near impossible with virtualized infrastructure. This infographic shows how HPE InfoSight -- the underlying technology in HPE's intelligent data storage -- uses cloud-based machine learning to optimize VM performance by automating diagnostics and remediation recommendations.
Unlocking Data's Full Potential with Intelligent Storage
Storage needs to be more than where your data lives, and it needs to be intelligent so you can unlock data's full potential. In this video, explore the advances HPE is driving to deliver the world's most intelligent storage.
Monday, March 4, 2019
Customer Story: SitePro - part 3
This week, delve deeper into the multiple service offerings from Azure that allow SitePro to run their entire turnkey application from this single platform.
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