The Cloud Forward

January 2024

Happy New Year!

Good day,

As we transition from the holidays, school breaks, and vacations, we once again look forward to the year ahead. You can start you year off with 7 Questions to Ask Your IT Provider, our recent eBook covering issues your IT provider should be bringing to your attention.

Building your 2024 IT Plan will help you balance priorities within your budget, saving you time, money, and aggravation over the coming year. Our recent blog post and our December 3T@3 Series online event guide you through the steps.

If your 2024 IT Plan includes managed cloud services, join our January 3T@3 Series event for an overview and discussion of selecting managed cloud services for your business.

If you're not ready, Google and Yahoo! may prevent your emails from reaching inboxes. Check our blog, and our upcoming Coffee & Clouds event, to learn more. Take the necessary steps to maintain your email deliverability (and security).

If you have an IT issue, question, or concern you want us to cover, please let us know. Your feedback and ideas guide our efforts.

Thank you for being part of our community,

Allen Falcon, CEO

From our Blog

7 Steps to Build Your 2024 IT Plan.

Your business objectives drive IT requirements and initiatives. Add in IT lifecycle planning, and you need to balance priorities and budget. Here is a breakdown of 7 key steps in the process.

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Gmail and Google Workspace will block your emails without new mandatory DNS settings.

While Google is enforcing new rules for bulk senders, following these rules improves your email results and prevents business email compromise and impersonation cyber attacks.

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Manage Google Workspace Storage and Limits.

Google no longer supports legacy options for additional storage for Google Workspace. If you exceed your storage limit, Google will force your account into "read-only" mode.

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Upcoming Events

Select Your Managed Cloud Services

3T@3 Series: Jan. 16 at 3:00 PM ET

The right mix of services, properly managed, can significantly impact your team’s productivity and your IT security. “Managed Cloud Services” offer more affordable solutions with greater impact than traditional IT and managed IT services.

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Coffee & Clouds Series

5 Steps for Email Deliverability and Security

Fri. Jan. 26th at 2:30 PM ET

Learn how to update your DNS settings to prevent your emails from being blocked by Google, Yahoo, and others.

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Cyber Insurance Secrets

Coffee & Clouds Series

5 critical considerations before you apply for cyber insurance.

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7 Questions to Ask Your IT Provider

For small and midsize businesses like yours, the IT services environment continues to change. Here are seven questions, across a range of topics, to ask your current IT provider to ensure they are actively helping you look forward.

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Your 2024 IT Action Plan

3T@3 Series in December

With dozens of applications and services, you may struggle to manage licensing, access, and permissions. Automating common admin and management tasks saves time and money, and improves security.

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