Microsoft launches Office 365

There is no escaping the cloud – it’s everywhere!  On June 28th, Microsoft launched the much anticipated Office 365. 

Microsoft Office 365 delivers the power of cloud productivity to businesses of all sizes, helping to save time, money and free up valued resources. 

Office 365 combines the familiar Office desktop suite with online versions of Microsoft’s next generation communications and collaboration services:  Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Lync Online. 

With Office 365, HCS, as certified Microsoft Cloud Partners, can provide services that are easy to administer and simple to use – always backed up by robust security, reliability and control to run your business.

Until recently, there were few alternatives to running your own on-site IT applications and services. But with the developments in web-based technologies that enable service providers to host them for you, there are now opportunities to access just those applications and services that you need, when you need them, and without deploying and operating them yourself.

Immediate benefits of using Office 365 include lower total cost of ownership: you have no specialized staff to hire, no equipment to house, no server software to maintain and operate. Services scale readily to match your business requirements; you’re never under-provisioned or over-provisioned and your online “virtual” IT department grows and responds to your changing needs.

According to Neil Phelan, Director of HCS Business Solutions, there is no escaping the fact that the future is undoubtedly cloud computing. 

However, Neil commented “Handing over control of your IT service to an online service provider requires due diligence, and most likely raises immediate questions such as:
• How do I know my data is kept private and can only be accessed by the appropriate people?
• How secure is my data?
• Will my data be available to me when I need it?
• Will my e-mail and collaboration services be up and running when I need them?
• How can I be sure that my service is as reliable and safe as my service provider claims it is?”

“HCS Business Solutions, as a certified Microsoft Cloud Partner, delivers trustworthy computing, now a corporate tenet at Microsoft.  The aim of our company is to deliver secure, private, and reliable computing experiences for everyone. Trustworthy computing involves not only making the computing experience inherently safer, but also making it more reliable and available while at the same time protecting customers’ privacy”, Neil added.

Sign Up today for a FREE 30 day trial of MS Office 365 or a
FREE Cloud Computing assessment survey call HCS Business Solutions on +353 (0)51 595 200 or email

 

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