Bringing business to the cloud

Most recently we've seen the industry leaders in blogs, reports and other authored content begin to take notice of what is happening with data security and privacy.  Notably, an industry leader, Cliff Banks of " the Banks Report " has taken notice and written an extremely interesting article on the topic. In his recent post he explains some of the issues that have become noticeable by the general public and some that are quite difficult to digest.  He did a great job of explaining the difficult parts and a wonderful job of highlighting the obvious ones.  His coverage on the movement by Reynolds and Reynolds and CDK as well as the leader in private protected data, DealerVault were of great interest. A very important differentiation with these providers is the 20 Million Dollar Cyber Liability Policy that backs DealerVault.  DealerVault sells its solution as protected, secure and "dealer-centric" while the other providers sell their solution and are limiting a...

On November 18, 2014 there was a "glitch in the Matrix" and the fact that Microsoft has taken responsibility for the problem can either make you a believer in Cloud Computing or a naysayer.  We at RyanTech choose "BELIEVER" for many reasons. The Cloud platforms are all still built with human hands so we have to understand that sometimes mistakes will be made. When a mistake is made, we learn and grow from the event. The Cloud platforms have still proven better up-time, faster resilience and flexibility as well as better and easier to administration systems than on-premises infrastructure. The Cloud platforms come at a significantly low cost to deploy with a very high level of performance and reliability. If you're interested in learning what specifically happened as well as the steps that Microsoft is putting in place to reduce the potential of this happening again in the future please feel free to read here:  https://www.linkedin.com/groups/Azure-Outa...

Google has become the pessimist stock on the market and for good reason.  As this stock comparison shows, courtesy of www.scottrade.com, There is a general trend that Microsoft, Facebook and Apple are increasing in value and Google is declining.  One might ask why?  See my blog post below the graphic for our opinion. Innovation :      As Microsoft takes on innovation with #Office365 and #Azure as well as other cloud computing leadership thoughts, Google continues to provide second-rate products that are "easy" to onboard and navigate.  While Apple has continued to provide its followers with devices that are "beautiful" and "lovely to hold" in the user's hands, Facebook has taken search head on with integrated search and display advertising at a new level. Pricing :      While Microsoft has been driving down prices for innovative equipment like the Windows Phone, Surface Pro 3 and partner devices like the Lenovo Yoga and other ma...

Today is Safer Internet Day as expressed and supported by Microsoft here: http://www.microsoft.com/security/saferonline/ This post is about a passion of mine that I'm so proud and honored to be a part of.  In 1999 I was blessed by being involved with the Garff family and the Ken Garff Automotive Group in the creation of Vehix.com.  In 2013 the site was shut down but it had a great 14 year run and the important part is the relationship created by the formation of a friendship between John Garff and myself.  Since that time we have worked hard to use our talents to improve lives, educate kids and enhance the lives of our family, friends and staff. John and his family created a non profit called Success in Education and we at RyanTech were asked to come to the table again with ideas, innovation and heart.  That's exactly what we did in 2012 and we're pleased to say that the program in it's second year of going digital is hosted entirely on the Windows Azure platfor...