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Maybe you are looking for the right cloud storage option for your business or maybe you’re already in the thick of it and simply looking for the most effective way to utilize the resources available to you. Wherever you are in the process, you don’t have to be an expert in cloud storage to make the most of it. With our cloud consulting services, we can help you understand the tools at your disposal in order to assist you in putting together a successful cloud strategy no matter where you are in your journey. Learn about the benefits of cloud consulting services.

The Benefits of Cloud Consulting Services

Let’s take a look at some of the specific benefits that utilizing our cloud consulting services would provide you with.

• Knowledge to Help You Thrive: With our cloud consulting services, you have the benefit of filling in your knowledge gaps with the result of utilizing your cloud storage to its fullest potential. We can help you understand your technology in order to assist you in optimizing your IT environments and make your cloud strategies thrive.

• Help for Every Step of the Journey: Regardless of where you are in the process, we can provide you assistance and help you sort through all the confusion. We can help you understand the different cloud platforms and the technology behind them as well as help you monitor your virtualized environments so that you will have the greatest possible success in your endeavors.

If you are looking for a cloud consulting service that will help you put together a successful cloud strategy while still understanding your budget and needs, WHOA.com can help you. If you have any questions about our cloud consulting services, please contact us today.

Unauthorized software installation is a serious problem that opens the door to several cyber attacks including keystroke loggers, trojans and malware. This issue is especially a problem with Windows operating systems that allow local administrator access by default and support file systems such as FAT32 which offer no real access control features.

Unauthorized software installations create other problems for the organization, such as legal liability if employees download and install software that is not properly licensed by the software vendor. There are many “free download” software outlets on the Internet such as “Pirate Bay,” and downloads accessed via torrents and other forms of peer-to-peer software, which can result in severe copyright penalties and legal fees should an employee download, install and use illegally obtained software.

Personnel training and awareness in this area can help in preventing illegal software installations, and malware infections such as through trojans, which are programs that appear useful while also including malicious code which compromises the system and exposes the entire company network to risk from the outside.

Although personnel training helps, organizations must ensure that unauthorized software installations do not occur, by establishing a policy against such installations along with a list of software approved by the organization. All company computers must then be configured to prevent unauthorized software installations through mechanisms such as Windows Applocker or SRP (Software Restriction Policies) that block unauthorized software installations.

Contact us to learn more about how our managed security services can decrease risk by configuring and maintaining security policies that are right for your organization and prevent rogue software installations.

The final post in this series explains how cross-site scripting attacks occur, the risk they pose for your organization, and what you can do to ensure that cross-site scripting attacks do not compromise your information security.

There aren’t many ways to store your files on the cloud. But there are two main ways that you can store files through WHOA.com. Learn what cloud file storage options you have, and what they mean for your business.

Cloud File Storage

The first storage method is quite aptly named “Cloud File Storage.” This method stores data that is unstructured or only semi-structured. You can take all your file-based data and store them in one place. This includes your spreadsheets, documents, and more.

Cloud Block Storage

When you have large files, finding storage isn’t easy. Few businesses have room for you to store large files on the cloud. If you have file systems or databases that need storage, you need block storage. In this type of storage, your data goes into volumes, or blocks. Every block is like a separate hard drive.

Block storage is much more complicated than file storage. But, it does improve performance and give you the ability to store things you might otherwise be unable to store.

Finding the Right Storage Option

When you’re considering your cloud storage options, there are two main areas of focus you should have. First, there’s the file size. Is your file size so large that performance will be poor in a file storage system? Or is it small enough that it will function well?

You need to consider your application as well. If performance isn’t a concern, then file storage may be your best bet. But if performance is an issue, then cloud block storage is the way to go. Whichever you need, contact us and find out what we can offer you.

Cloud computing is now one of the hottest online businesses. Virtually every small, medium and large company are purchasing this storage rather than buying entire servers upfront to store information. At the same time, they are purchasing services to enhance and customize their cloud computing experience.  There is now a huge opportunity in this lucrative industry, both for the cloud storage providers and their marketing partners.  Whoa.com in particular provides a number of benefits for becoming a designated partner in our reseller partner program, most of whom are MSP or VARs.

Firstly, the company offers generous commission on all sales with very high margins because you do your own pricing and billing.  If the client is willing to accept the price, your profit is the entire difference to the Whoa cost. In fact, you can issue your own billing to completely control the process. As part of the control, you must conduct the Level 1 support process however.

You also receive a 20% discount on the services that you purchase from Whoa for your own firm (assuming that you have already become an established partner reseller).  As a user, it will be easier to explain and market the benefits of the product to other businesses.

Cloud services have a very short sales cycle, are easy to quote and have long-running recurring revenue.  More and more companies are getting into the game of reselling these services for that reason.

Whoa.com is a leading ISO 27001-certified, secure cloud computing provider. The firm’s top reseller partner program has helped many clients find the company, and partners earn lucrative fees. For more information, please contact us.