Over the last several years, Connecting Point has worked very hard to build an IT services business that provides great value for our customers. These are some of the areas where we’ve aimed to bring value:

When possible, it’s best to purchase things that appreciate in value and rent the things in life that depreciate. Why should your technology be any different?

There is a growing cultural trend towards subscription-based business models, like Netflix and Uber.

More and more businesses are moving operations to the cloud. This increase is happening as more cloud innovations are hitting the market – and more technology companies are shifting their priorities to cloud.

For businesses looking for benefits, the cloud offers many.

Ten years ago, if you had been told that one of the smartest business decisions you could make would be to have all your business information (files, documents, photos, everything) in a virtual place, accessible from anywhere but ONLY by your designated employees, you might have said “that sounds like science fiction.

Data loss happens, even in the cloud. But can your organization afford to lose emails and work documents? No. Here's why we believe all Office 365 accounts should use a solution like CloudFinder as a back-up.

Office 365 is the go-to productivity suite for businesses.

As many of you may have seen by now, Microsoft recently released their next new version of their Office application suite, Office 2016. This is the first new version of Office that we are seeing signs of Microsoft’s new cloud first strategy; this version of Office released to Office 365 almost a week before you could buy the retail/volume license version, and they made it the default version of Office that gets installed from Office 365. In fact, it’s a little difficult to install the old Office 2013 version from Office 365.
Microsoft SaaS (Software-as-a-Service)
Right now, we aren’t recommending that everyone go out and immediately switch to Office 2016. As we advised with Windows 10, we want to make sure the software is stable before everyone adopts it.

If you are just beginning to understand the benefits of switching your Loveland business over to cloud services, it’s important to understand which services are available to you and how each of the services helps your business. Desktop-as-a-Service, DaaS, is a cloud service where the back-end of a virtual desktop infrastructure is hosted by your cloud service provider.

Making the change to cloud services is something that we have spoken about benefiting a business these days. While there are many that understand the importance of this change, there are still a few that are skeptical and nervous about making the change.

We’ve talked in other blog posts about why it is that businesses take their time making the transfer to the cloud. While some of these fears are rational, many small business owners are unaware that making the change to cloud services could actually benefit their small business.

For any business it’d be a disaster to lose all of your files. Connecting Point is here to tell you to take a minute, take a breath, and relax as we quickly recover any files you’ve lost. It should go without saying that having a data recovery plan is a necessity for any business.